Union Health Minister Launches Digital Health Initiatives on June 29, 2026
Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare and Chemicals & Fertilizers, Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda, will launch a series of digital initiatives for the health sector on Monday, 29th June 2026 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. These initiatives, developed under the aegis of National Health Authority (NHA) and National Resource Centre for EHR Standards (NRCeS), aim to expand access to healthcare services, strengthen interoperability, and accelerate the adoption of Digital Public Infrastructure for Health across India.
The launch event will bring together state representatives, senior government officials, healthcare leaders, technology partners, industry representatives, and key stakeholders from across the healthcare ecosystem. The initiatives include citizen-facing applications, provider-focused solutions, interoperability frameworks, registries, and data standards designed to enhance accessibility, efficiency, and interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem.
Key Citizen-Facing Applications
Aarogya Setu 2.0 is a comprehensive Personal Health Record Application (PHR) for citizens that builds on the trust and reach established during the COVID-19 pandemic. The revamped application provides a gateway to multiple digital health services through a single platform, enabling creation and management of ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account), access to and sharing of digital health records, consent-based health information exchange, AI-powered health insights and smart health reports, wearable device integration, OPD registration through Scan & Register, hospital payments through Scan & Pay, medication reminders, and family health management. It also facilitates discovery of nearby healthcare facilities and doctors, ambulance services, blood banks with blood unit availability, and Jan Aushadhi Kendras, while providing access to PM-JAY services including search for PM-JAY empanelled hospitals, access to AB PM-JAY wallet and Ayushman CAPF policy details.
The enhanced Ayushman App serves as a one-stop digital platform for beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY), enabling access to essential scheme-related services including eligibility verification, Ayushman Card services, treatment history, hospital discovery, grievance redressal, and beneficiary support.
Ayushman Sarathi is a WhatsApp chatbot for beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY designed to deliver PM-JAY services through a simple conversational interface, improving accessibility and strengthening last-mile service delivery.
Interoperability and Infrastructure Initiatives
The National Health Claims Exchange (NHCX) is a digital public infrastructure for seamless health claims processing that will enable standardized exchange of health claims information between providers and payers across public and private health insurance programmes, reducing administrative burden and facilitating faster and more efficient claims processing.
NHA will introduce a utility that enables the conversion of payers' insurance plans into standardized FHIR bundles, facilitating uniform and error-free creation of insurance plan information across payers, improving consistency, reducing manual effort, and supporting more efficient processing of health claims.
The Unified Health Interface (UHI) is being dedicated to the nation, enabling digital applications to connect citizens with healthcare service providers through a common interoperable framework, facilitating easier discovery and access to healthcare services.
e-Sushrut Clinic is unveiled as a plug-and-play clinic management solution that enables healthcare providers to digitize clinical workflows, maintain electronic health records, and seamlessly integrate with the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission ecosystem, supporting healthcare facilities in adopting digital health technologies.
Standardization Frameworks
The Drug Registry will be launched with the aim of standardizing medicine-related information across the healthcare ecosystem by enabling uniform coding of medicines across digital health applications, strengthening prescribing, dispensing, and healthcare data exchange while improving interoperability across healthcare systems.
The Common LOINC Codes for India (CLCI) is a nationally curated subset of international laboratory standards tailored for Indian healthcare needs, developed by NRCeS, enabling standardized representation of laboratory observations and diagnostic information to support seamless exchange of laboratory data across hospitals, laboratories, and digital health platforms.
The Bharat Health Terminology Service (BHTS), also developed by NRCeS, will provide access to standardized healthcare terminologies, code systems, and value sets to support semantic interoperability across digital health systems by enabling consistent interpretation and exchange of health information.
Together, these initiatives are expected to strengthen India's Digital Public Infrastructure for Health through enhanced interoperability, standardization, and seamless exchange of health information across stakeholders, supporting the Government's vision of accessible, affordable, and inclusive healthcare for all under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission framework.