National Health Stack (NHS)
National Health Stack (NHS) : India's digital infrastructure for national health database National Health Stack (NHS) NHS is digital infrastructure built with the aim of making the health insurance system more transparent and robust. Ayushman Bharat, the world’s largest government-funded health insurance programme is progressing towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the challenge of making quality and affordable healthcare accessible to every one of India’s 135 crore citizens has acquired an altogether new dimension. National Health Stack -Components Effective use of Digital technology is critical to this project — the National Health Stack comes in. It takes into account the uniqueness of India’s healt system. There are five components of NHS: . An electronic national health registry that would serve as a single source of health data for the nation; Coverage and claims platform that would serve as the building blocks for large health protection schemes, allow for the hor