As per the MoU, NABH will encourage and provide assistance in onboarding their accredited/certified facilities on ABDM’s Health Facility Registry (HFR) and onboarding of the doctors, nurses etc. working in these facilities on the Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR)
National Health Authority (NHA) and National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) – a constituent board of Quality Council of India (QCI) have signed a MoU to collaborate in the areas of capacity building, dissemination of information, promotion of QCI (NABH) accreditation & Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) standards, technical support, stakeholder advocacy and for creating overall awareness for different initiatives of NABH and NHA by leveraging the reach and presence of each other.
As per the MoU, NABH will encourage and provide assistance in onboarding their accredited/certified facilities on ABDM’s Health Facility Registry (HFR) and onboarding of the doctors, nurses etc. working in these facilities on the Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR).
Speaking about the objective of this collaboration, Dr R. S. Sharma, CEO, NHA said, “With the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), we have embarked on this ambitious journey to create a digital platform for bringing all stakeholders of the healthcare ecosystem together. We aim to leverage the strong presence of NABH among the health facilities and healthcare professionals from the public as well as private sector to reach out and sensitise them about the core functions, benefits and potential of ABDM and drive the adoption of ABDM on a large scale.”
Speaking on the occasion, Prof (Dr) Mahesh Verma, Chairman, NABH said, “NABH is totally committed to objective of taking quality healthcare to the last man in the line. This collaboration with NHA will help and motivate even small healthcare organisations in tier 2 & tier 3 cites to get the benefit of ABDM. It will spread the mission of providing quality healthcare to the masses and help India become a global leader in healthcare domain”.
Further, NHA and NABH will mutually develop accreditation standards and ratings for healthcare facilities to incorporate ABDM related standards for encouraging rapid adoption and uptake of digital health information systems.