ABDM — integrating AI with India’s national health data fabric
The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission gives Indian citizens an ABHA health ID and a federated way for their records to flow across hospitals, labs, insurers, and pharmacies. For an agentic AI system, ABDM unlocks the longitudinal view — the data depth that turns single-encounter AI into care-grade AI.
ABDM FAQ
What is ABDM?
The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is India’s national digital health infrastructure, operated by the National Health Authority. It defines the federated architecture for health data: ABHA (the citizen health ID), Health Information Exchange (HIE), Health Information Providers (HIPs), and Health Information Users (HIUs).
What is the ABHA ID?
ABHA — Ayushman Bharat Health Account — is a 14-digit health identifier issued to Indian citizens. Linked health records across hospitals, labs, and pharmacies can be retrieved with the citizen’s explicit consent.
How does Vihaya use ABDM?
Vihaya’s Context Mesh is designed to ingest structured health data via FHIR R4, the standard ABDM uses. For a hospital or health insurer with ABDM-empanelment, the HIE adapter would be built into the engagement SOW — pulling the patient’s linked records (with consent) to give the agent a longitudinal view rather than a single-encounter view. The adapter is not pre-shipped; no ABDM-empanelled customer has deployed Vihaya yet.
What about consent under ABDM?
ABDM uses an explicit consent-artefact model — the citizen must approve each data access via the Consent Manager. Vihaya’s audit trail records every consent-bound access event with the consent-artefact ID, supporting the data-fiduciary log requirements under DPDP.
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