The Indian government has introduced two significant healthcare initiatives, the Ayushman Bharat Health Card and the ABHA Health ID Card, to improve its citizens' access to quality healthcare services. While both cards aim to streamline healthcare delivery, they serve distinct purposes and offer different benefits. In this comprehensive blog post, we will explore the difference between Abha and Ayushman Cards, their features, eligibility criteria, and application processes.
Ayushman Bharat Card, also known as the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) card, is a health card introduced by the Indian government in 2018. Ayushman Card helps people with Ayushman Card to have access to affordable healthcare services. Significantly, through the Ayushman Card, the Ayushman Health Card holders can have financial security when it comes to health care services.
The Central Government has undertaken the ambitious projects of ABHA Card and Ayushman Bharat Card to ensure the health security of the nation for all eligible individuals. GIGIS helps make these services available for free.
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission aims to develop the backbone necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country. It will bridge the existing gap amongst different stakeholders of Healthcare ecosystem through digital highways.
Your Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) Number is a hassle-free method of accessing and sharing your health records digitally. It enables your interaction with participating healthcare providers, and allows you to receive your digital lab reports.
The Ayushman Bharat - Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs) were launched under the Ayushman Bharat Programme in a bid to move away from selective health care to a more comprehensive range of services spanning preventive.
No, ABHA is just an account/ number used to link all the health records of a person. The eligibility of a person for a particular scheme including AB-PMJAY is determined as per the eligibility criteria of that particular scheme. In case of AB-PMJAY, these criteria are based on social economic cast census 2011(SECC 2011), the details of which are available here https://mera.pmjay.gov.in/search/login
The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) has been launched by the Government of India for promoting digitization of healthcare and creating an open interoperable digital health ecosystem for the country. It aims to do so by prescribing common health data standards, developing core modules such as registry of health facilities, healthcare professionals etc required for interoperability; so that various digital health systems can interact with each other by enabling seamless sharing of data across various healthcare providers who may be using different digital health systems. Digitization of processes in the healthcare institutions shall be taken up by dovetailing various resources. Thus, ABDM seeks to bridge the gap among multiple stakeholders that are the part of the healthcare ecosystem.
Yes. You can opt out of the ABDM ecosystem. You can deactivate your account after which it can be reactivated. You can also delete your account after which the linkage with all the digital
Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) is a scheme to provide health cover or health insurance of up to INR 5 lakh per family per year for certain beneficiaries. Like ABDM, it is also implemented by the National Health Authority. AB PM-JAY is leveraging the platform of ABDM, so that its delivery becomes more efficient and transparent. Similarly, any other such scheme or health programme can leverage the common building blocks or design of ABDM so that its efficiency can improve. The integration of ABDM with AB PM-JAY is like its integration with any other digital health system such as the one of NIKSHAY (antiTB programme), CoWIN (COVID vaccination portal), hospitals, etc. Apart from this integration, both the schemes have different goals. Thus, they are two different schemes being implemented by the same authority/office. However, AB PM-JAY has digital linkages with ABDM which enables effective quality and continuum of care.
