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Health IDs Boom: India's Digital Leap
20 Apr
Summary
- Digital Public Infrastructure for Health utilizes reusable digital building blocks.
- India created over 846 million health IDs as of January 7, 2026.
- The DPI-H approach aims to integrate fragmented digital health solutions.
Digital Public Infrastructure for Health (DPI-H) represents a significant shift towards the digital transformation of healthcare systems. It encompasses a nation's digital health architecture, featuring foundational elements like health identification, shared registries, and open networks.
These reusable digital components facilitate the development of inclusive and user-centric health applications. Countries like India, Brazil, and Kenya are adopting DPI-H to replace traditional, siloed digital health solutions with unified, interoperable systems.
India's progress is notable: by January 7, 2026, 846.4 million ABHA health IDs were generated. Additionally, 0.7 million health professionals and 0.4 million health facilities were registered. The system has facilitated the linking of 815 million health records to ABHA and processed 178 million scan and share tokens.
