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Connect your application to India's health data network.
What ABDM is
The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is India's national health data network. It identifies the people and the places involved in care, and lets the systems that hold the records exchange them with the person's consent.
There is no central store of health records. Records stay in the system that created them. What the network moves is a request, a consent and, once that consent is granted, the records themselves, encrypted between the two systems. The exchange itself is data blind: it works with identifiers and metadata about where records live, and does not read what is in them.
Three gateways carry different work, and this section documents the first.
| Gateway | What it carries |
|---|---|
| HIE-CM | Care seeker (ABHA) and care provider (HPR, HFR) identities, care contexts, consent and health records |
| UHI | Finding and booking a health service |
| NHCX | Health insurance claims |
Your work on HIE-CM is four milestones, and they spell CARE: Create the identity, Attach your records to it, Retrieve records held elsewhere, Enrol your facility and your professionals.
Who are you?
This is where you choose your path. Pick the one that fits and the rest of the documentation follows it, in the sidebar and on every page. You can change it whenever you like from the filter at the top of the sidebar.
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The four milestones and what each one gets you.
Skills, MCP server and prompts for your coding agent.
What certification and the exit process involve.
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Common use cases
Identity for every patient, created and verified.
Link care contexts and serve them under consent.
Request consent, fetch and decrypt.
ABHA login, record discovery, consent control.
Get the ids every call needs.