Public Awareness & General Administration
DigilLocker users can now digitally store health records and link them with ABHA
- DigiLocker, the authentic documents exchange platform under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) has successfully completed its 2nd level of integration with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM).
- DigiLocker’s secure cloud-based storage platform can now be used as a health locker to store and retrieve health documents such as vaccination records, doctor prescriptions, lab tests, hospital discharge summaries, etc.
- DigiLocker had previously completed level 1 integration with ABDM, in which the platform added an ABHA creation facility for its 13 crore users.
- The latest integration will now enable users to utilize DigiLocker as a Personal Health Records (PHR) app.
- ABHA holders can also link their health records from different ABDM-registered health facilities like hospitals and labs and access them via DigiLocker.
About Digilocker
- DigiLocker is a flagship initiative of MeitY under the ‘Digital India’ programme (July 1, 2015)
- The beta version of the service was rolled out in February 2015, and launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 1 July 2015. The storage space provided was 100 MB initially, and was later increased to 1 GB.
