Swasth Bharat Portal Unveiled: Unifying Fragmented Health Systems to Power India’s Digital Health Transformation

• Swasth Bharat Portal — a one-stop aggregator platform by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) that integrates fragmented national health programme systems via APIs, enabling interoperability and reducing duplicate data entry.
• ABDM-compliant, supports ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account) integration for secure health data exchange.
• Projected efficiency: 20–30% reduction in infrastructure load; 20–40% reduction in data entry and HR duplication.
• For UPSC: pivotal example of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) in health, linking to GS-II (governance, health) and GS-III (S&T, IT).