NHA ANNOUNCES INTEGRATION OF AYUSHMAN BHARAT DIGITAL MISSION WITH AAROGYA SETU APP.

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• The National Health Authority on Friday announced the integration of its flagship Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission with the Aarogya Setu app, allowing users to create the 14-digit unique Ayushman Bharat Health Account numbers from the app.
• This integration takes the benefits of the Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) number to the Aarogya Setu user base.
• People can use their ABHA number to link their existing and new medical records, including doctor prescriptions, lab reports and hospital records and also share those with health professionals and health service providers.
• Aarogya Setu app has a huge active user base and is already being used for COVID-19 related contact tracing to check risk factors, vaccine booking, certificate download and status check, among other things. This integration with ABDM will add another feature of generating ABHA numbers for the app users.