An individual can create their Ayushman Bharat Health Account (number) (ABHA) which is a unique identifier for a citizen in the health ecosystem. Presently, ABHA can be created by an individual through their Aadhaar number or driving license.

ABHA will help the individual to link and share their digital health records with consent across multiple systems and stakeholders. This helps create their longitudinal health records across different healthcare providers which facilitates better delivery of healthcare to them.

Ministry has taken multiple measures to accelerate ABHA adoption in the country. National Health Authority (NHA) is collaborating with several government health programmes, government health solutions/applications, private integrators to accelerate creation of ABHA. For ABHA creation in remote locations with limited or no internet connectivity, ABDM has also rolled out the feature of offline ABHA creation.

The Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.