Railway hospitals integrated with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

In a major step at fulfilling the implementation of one of the path-breaking project  “Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission” (ABDM), all the 695 hospitals and health centres of Indian Railway across the country have been successfully integrated with the ABDM. The move will not only benefit around 80 lakhs Railway employees, Railway pensioners and their family members in accessing health care facilities of other hospitals integrated with ABDM additionally, but also enable general public to draw benefit of health care facilities available in Railway hospitals and health centres in a seamless digital manner. If Railway patients are going outside Railway Health System to some other hospitals integrated with ABDM for specialised treatment anywhere in the country, then with the help of this integrated system, the exchange of medical records will be facilitated digitally, expeditiously and seamlessly making things easier, faster, hassle free and efficient for beneficiaries or patients. 

This significant job of integration of Railway health system with ABDM has been executed by RailTel Corporation of India.  It has been accomplished in collaboration with National Health Authority (NHA), the apex body responsible for implementing “Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)” to create a National Digital Health Eco-system. ABDM aims to develop the backbone necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country. It will bridge the existing gap amongst different stakeholders of Healthcare ecosystem through digital highways.

Earlier, in a mega exercise, RailTel had implemented a Web-Based, Multi-Module, Feature-Rich, Sophisticated, Software System Called “Hospital Management Information System (HMIS)” in all the 695 hospitals and health units of Indian Railways across the country. It has made railway health system more transparent, effective, efficient, accountable & patient-friendly. This HMIS system of Railways was then also made fully compliant with ABDM system. As a next step, RailTel and NHA have now successfully integrated these two systems for the benefit of patients and health administration. Under Railway HMIS system, one mobile app namely, “HMIS Patient Mobile App” has also been created for ensuring easy information access to patients related to their OPD Registrations, Doctor Prescriptions, Lab Reports, Self-Registration etc. With this, the patients have been empowered to get easy access to all their Health Record anytime they need them.