ABDM connect · Release 2

ABHA, consent and record sharing, built in

Create or link the patient's ABHA at registration, share records with their consent through the national health exchange, and receive records from other providers. Coming in Release 2.

RegistrationABHA
ABHA 91-2345-6789-0123 verified
Name Ravi Kumar · 34 y · M
Consent Storage ✓ · Recording ✓ · Messages ✓
Register and issue token
ABHA appconsent request
Sree Clinic requests your records from City Hospital, 2024 to today, for care. Valid 30 days.
ApproveDeny
Ravi KumarConsent approved
Linked

ABDM is required, and nobody has time to build it

The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission asks every provider to create ABHA IDs, keep records shareable and honour patient consent. The rules are detailed and the sandbox is slow.

ABHA linking done by hand

A separate portal, a separate login, and the number copied into the file. It is done for some patients and forgotten for most.

Consent is a legal requirement

Sharing a record without a valid consent artefact is not allowed. Doing it right needs the whole consent flow, not a checkbox.

Records from elsewhere do not arrive

A patient treated in another hospital brings a bag of paper. The exchange could bring the records, if the hospital were connected.

ABDM connect: the national health exchange as part of the OPD

ABHA at the desk, consent requests the patient approves on their phone, records shared as FHIR bundles from the signed notes Vaidyah already holds.

  1. 1
    ABHA at registration

    Create a new ABHA with Aadhaar or mobile, or link an existing one, from the same registration screen. The patient can also scan a QR at the desk to share their profile.

  2. 2
    Consent, the way the mission specifies

    Consent requests go to the patient's ABHA app; approved consents are stored as artefacts; sharing stops when they expire or are revoked.

  3. 3
    Records that travel both ways

    Signed notes, prescriptions and reports are shared as standard bundles. Records from other providers appear in the patient's timeline.

How ABDM connect will work

Release 2. The parts of the OPD it depends on, signed notes and consent at registration, are already in place.

Front desk09:14
98480 12345
Ravi Kumar34 y · M · last visit 12 Aug · Dr Lakshmi
Lakshmi KSame number · 61 y · F
Issue token → Dr Lakshmi

At the desk

The ABHA field on the registration screen creates or verifies the number in seconds. The QR at the desk lets the patient share their ABHA profile and skip the form.

ABHA appconsent request
Sree Clinic requests your records from City Hospital, 2024 to today, for care. Valid 30 days.
ApproveDeny

With the patient's consent

The doctor asks for records; the patient approves on their phone; the records arrive in the timeline. The hospital's own records are shared the same way.

Ravi Kumar · SC-004821ABHA linked
TodayViral fever · Dr Lakshmi · Rx, CBC
12 AugHypertension review · BP 138/88
3 MayOld record scanned · 4 pages

In the record

External records sit in the same timeline as the hospital's own, marked with their source, and count towards the doctor's view of the patient.

Built to the mission's specifications

Health Facility and Professional registries

The hospital and its doctors are registered once and the IDs flow into every record shared.

Consent artefacts stored

Every share is backed by a consent artefact, kept with the record, as the mission's audits require.

FHIR bundles from signed notes

Because the notes are structured and signed, the bundles are produced without extra typing.

Sandbox first

Certified in the ABDM sandbox before any real record is shared.

The right fit for a hospital joining the mission

Front desk

ABHA created or linked in the registration screen, nothing separate to remember.

Doctors

A patient's history from other providers, with consent, before the consultation.

Patients

Their ABHA, their consent, their records, on their phone.

Hospital owners

Compliance with the mission's milestones without a separate project.

Frequently asked questions

When is it available?

Release 2, after the OPD, scribe and billing are running in the first hospitals. Registration already has the ABHA field; the exchange connection follows.

Do patients need an ABHA to use Vaidyah?

No. ABHA is optional at registration. Patients without one are registered by mobile number as usual.

Is the hospital's data sent anywhere without consent?

No. Records leave the hospital only against a consent artefact approved by the patient, and only to the provider named in it.

Planning for ABDM? Talk to us now

We will show you what the OPD already does today and what the exchange adds in Release 2.

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