Guwahati: The National Health Authority (NHA) had announced 100 Microsites project for accelerated adoption of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) across the country.

Mizoram has become the first state in India to operationalise an ABDM Microsite in Aizawl. Under this, all healthcare facilities, including the private clinics, small hospitals and laboratories in the region will be made ABDM-enabled and will offer digital health services to the patients.

The NHA Chief Executive Officer said the 100 Microsite project under ABDM is a very important initiative for reaching out to the bulk of small and medium-scale healthcare providers from the private sector.

The concept of Microsites was envisaged to provide a strong impetus to healthcare digitisation efforts across the country. The efforts by the Mizoram team have resulted in Aizawl becoming the first ABDM Microsite in India. NHA looks forward to a similar enthusiastic response from other state teams.

At the Microsite launch event in Aizawl on August 23, Betsy Zothanpari Sailo, Additional Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Mizoram, said the government “firmly believes that digitisation of health services can help us achieve our goal of universal health coverage”.

“With digital services at our health facilities and secure access to digital health records, the patients shall benefit the most. Our teams made conscious efforts to closely study the process of ABDM enablement and have selected an implementation partner to operationalize our first Microsite in Aizawl. We are all geared up to take the implementation in mission mode and ensure that the Aizawl Microsite lives up to its role as the first ABDM Microsite in the country,” Sailo said.

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