⇒ The National Health Authority (NHA) hosting its first ever open-to-all hackathon series to drive ideation and innovations around the different building blocks in the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) ecosystem.
- The series began with a hackathon – ‘Round 1: Kickstarting Unified Health Interface (UHI)’ from 14th to 17th July 2022.
The hackathon was focussed on the Unified Health Interface (UHI) and aimed at mobilising the health start-up ecosystem in India and bringing together individuals and organisations to develop solutions through UHI.
The hackathon provides an excellent opportunity for innovators, data experts and developers from all over the world to collaborate and build innovative solutions for providing access to digital health services through UHI.
‘ABDM Hackathon Series – Round 1: Kickstarting UHI’ was focused on two major themes:
Innovation Track: Challenge for innovative solutions to power digital health in an open network around various use cases such as teleconsultation, ambulance booking, lab tests, physical consultation booking, lab tests booking.
Integration Track: Challenge to accelerate development of applications that are compatible with UHI and integrate these applications with the applications of other such participants to enable digital health transactions on the UHI network.
About UHI:
- UHI is designed as an open network to enable the interoperable transaction of digital health services such as teleconsultation.
- Through UHI, patients can discover, book, conduct and pay for services offered by a variety of participating providers from any application of their choosing.
- This stands in contrast to the current mode of digital health service delivery, where patients and doctors must transact using a common application or platform.