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Unified Health Interface: Enabling
Seamless Delivery of Digital Health
Services in India

consultation. UHI will make it
easier for different stakeholders
to communicate when utilising
different solutions, similar to
how UPI is used in payments.
Using the UHI-enabled end user
applications, patients can search,
book, and avail of services given
by a variety of health service
providers via any application
of their choice through the UHI
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gateway. For example, the doctor
Former CEO, available on the ABC platform
National Health Authority cannot provide tele-consultation
to a patient using the XYZ
platform. UHI shall enable all these
platforms to interact with each
other through open protocols
and, in turn, provide a seamless
The Unified Health Interface experience. This contrasts with
(UHI) is one of the foundational the existing method of delivering
layers in the Ayushman Bharat digital health services, which
Digital Mission (ABDM) stack that requires patients and clinicians
focuses on the discoverability to do business through a single
and delivery of health services. platform or application. With UHI,
While the current ABDM building they can continue functioning
blocks enable the interoperable with their respective digital
exchange of personal health platforms and can still transact
data and provide registries for and be part of healthcare
doctors, patients, and health service delivery. Healthcare
facilities, UHI leverages these professionals will also benefit
building blocks to provide from their extended visibility to
a seamless end-to-end potential patients present on
experience for the users. different platforms.
It is intended to be an Currently, citizens can book
open network within the ABDM an online consultation with
ecosystem, enabling the any doctor, book a physical
interoperable transaction of appointment with any doctor,
digital health services like tele- find a blood bank near them,

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