Awareness of and Challenges in Utilizing the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission for Healthcare Delivery: Qualitative Insights from University Students in Coastal Karnataka in India.
Rajesh Kamath, Muneera Banu, Nagaraj Shet, Varshini R Jayapriya, Vani Lakshmi Ramesh, Selim Jahangir, Nahima Akthar, Helmut Brand, Vidya Prabhu, Vishwajeet Singh, Sagarika Kamath
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Background: The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) aims to enhance healthcare delivery in India through digital integration. The ABDM, an essential part of India's healthcare system, aspires to transform healthcare delivery through digitization, by emphasizing affordability, accessibility, and transparency. This qualitative study investigated the awareness, challenges, and perceptions of the ABDM among postgraduate students in coastal Karnataka, focusing on their experiences and interactions with digital health technologies. Methodology: A qualitative descriptive approach was employed, involving semi-structured interviews with 17 purposively selected participants from a health science university. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using the NVivo 12 software for thematic analysis. Results: This study revealed that, while many students recognized the ABDM's goal of establishing comprehensive digital health infrastructure to seamlessly integrate healthcare services and information systems, detailed knowledge about its functionalities, implementation processes, and challenges was limited. Participants highlighted the need for improved digital literacy and support to maximize the effective use of the ABDM. Conclusions: The successful implementation of the ABDM depends on overcoming major challenges such as poor awareness and concerns about data security. Addressing these issues will require focused educational campaigns, increased accessibility, and joint efforts by the government, healthcare providers, and technological partners.
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Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal (free for readers), which publishes original theoretical and empirical work in the interdisciplinary area of all aspects of medicine and health care research. Healthcare publishes Original Research Articles, Reviews, Case Reports, Research Notes and Short Communications. We encourage researchers to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. For theoretical papers, full details of proofs must be provided so that the results can be checked; for experimental papers, full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Additionally, electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculations, experimental procedure, etc., can be deposited along with the publication as “Supplementary Material”.
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