G B Pant Hospital to Use Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts (ABHA) of Sufferers for Quicker OPD Registrations

Tarun Karthick

Campbell Bay, 03 December 2022

The National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) was launched as a pilot in six Union Territories together with Andaman & Nicobar Islands on fifteenth August 2022. The scheme was later prolonged to your complete nation on twenty seventh September 2021 and renamed as Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). Under the scheme, greater than 4 lakh Health IDs have been created in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Health IDs created beneath Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is now referred to as Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA).

It has been determined to advertise using ABHA for OPD registration of recent and follow-up sufferers at GB Pant Hospital, Port Blair. The scan & share QR code resolution of the National Health Authority shall be adopted on the OPD Counter of GB Pant Hospital, Port Blair to facilitate fast registration of the sufferers.

At current, guide entry of affected person’s demographics like Name, Age, Gender, Address and Mobile No is being performed on the Registration Counter of GB Pant Hospital. Manual Entry of demographics is a time-consuming course of, leading to lengthy queues for registration through the peak morning hours.

To mitigate this challenge, a separate ABHA Counter has been arrange on the OPD registration space of GB Pant Hospital. All new and follow-up sufferers visiting the OPD counter have been requested to hold their ABHA ID in order that their demographic particulars will be scanned and printed on the OPD slip as a substitute of guide entry, this can lead to sooner OPD registration.

Further, a QR Code Scan and Share Option can be out there on the OPD entrance space of GB Pant Hospital, which can be utilized by sufferers having the ABHA app, Arogya Sethu, Paytm or eka.care put in on their iOS or Android Smartphones.