Health ID - Digital, Secure, Inclusive

With a federated architecture, no health records will be stored in a central repository, reducing the risk of a single hacked server leading to leakages

The editorial in Business Standard dated October 4, 2021, titled “Digital Health ID concerns”, seems to be written with incomplete understanding of the architecture and design of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). In the spirit of ensuring public awareness and discourse, the National Health Authority (NHA) would like to take the opportunity to help correct some omissions and factual errors that have been made in the editorial. Given the critical importance of health in everyone’s lives, we feel it is essential to accurately represent the nature and design of ABDM in public interest.

It is stated in the editorial