UHIN — Unified Health Intelligence Network | ABDM-Native Health Data Platform

How UHIN Works

ABHA ID · Consent · Records in 3 seconds

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Register once with ABHA

Every patient gets a 14-digit ABHA number mandated by NHA. One registration links your complete medical history across every ABDM-registered facility in India.

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Patient controls every access

Doctor requests records. Patient approves via OTP in ABHA Health app. Consent is signed, time-bound, purpose-limited, and audited. Revoke in one tap.

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Full history in 3 seconds

Prescriptions, lab results, imaging and diagnoses from every prior ABDM facility appear in the doctor’s consultation workspace. No paper files. No repeat tests.

The UHIN Difference

Three ways to walk in.
One identity. Instant records.

India's ABHA framework is powerful but unfamiliar to many patients. UHIN bridges this gap — accept any of three identifiers patients already carry, and still deliver the full ABDM-verified health history instantly.

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Aadhaar Number

Every Indian already has one. Patient gives their 12-digit Aadhaar — UHIN looks up the linked ABHA account and fetches records instantly after OTP consent.

✓ Masked on display after verification

✓ Works even if patient forgot ABHA ID

✓ Critical for rural first-time patients

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ABHA Number

The 14-digit ABDM health ID. One Aadhaar can have multiple ABHA accounts (family members). UHIN resolves the right patient record instantly. Works offline via QR.

✓ Fastest lookup — direct ABDM match

✓ QR code on ABHA card — scan & go

✓ UHIN promotes ABHA creation free

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Mobile Number

One mobile number can be linked to multiple ABHA accounts (the same number for a family). UHIN shows a patient-selection screen when multiple ABHAs are found, then fetches the right record.

✓ Familiar fallback for digital beginners

✓ OTP sent to the same number

✓ Smart disambiguation for families

Understanding ABHA Identity

🔗 Aadhaar ⇌ ABHA link

One Aadhaar card is linked to exactly one primary ABHA number. This is your permanent health ID — assigned once, used everywhere, never reassigned.

📱 Mobile ⇌ Multiple ABHA

One mobile number can be registered across multiple ABHA accounts — useful for a parent who created ABHA for their children and elderly parents. UHIN shows a disambiguation screen so the right patient is always selected.

🔒 Consent is always patient-first

Regardless of which identifier you share, no records are accessed without an active consent artefact issued by ABDM. You approve every access via OTP on your phone.

🌿 UHIN Rural Outreach — Promoting ABHA Awareness

India has ~85 Cr ABHA IDs (early 2026) but millions of rural patients don’t know they can walk into any ABDM hospital and get their records instantly. UHIN’s Rural Awareness Programme changes this.

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PHC ABHA registration camps — UHIN kiosks at Primary Health Centres help rural patients create their ABHA ID on the spot using Aadhaar, with assisted mode for no-internet areas.

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WhatsApp ABHA bot — patients in rural Telangana, AP, and Maharashtra can create and access their ABHA through a conversational WhatsApp interface in Hindi and regional languages.

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Printed ABHA health cards — for patients with no smartphones, UHIN prints a laminated ABHA QR card they can carry in their wallet and show at any hospital.

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ASHA worker integration — UHIN training and tools for ASHA workers to help villagers create ABHA accounts and understand their health data rights during routine visits.

🌿 Target: 5 lakh rural ABHA registrations in Year 1 across Telangana pilot districts

The Problem We Solve

India has EMRs. But they don’t talk to each other.

EMR (Electronic Medical Record) stores data within one hospital. EHR (Electronic Health Record) is the longitudinal record that follows the patient across every hospital. India has thousands of EMRs but almost no interoperable EHR. UHIN is the bridge.

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EMR — Electronic Medical Record

A digital record of a patient’s clinical data within one facility. Apollo has one EMR. KIMS has another. AIIMS has a third. Each is a silo. When a patient moves hospitals, their history stays behind. Paper files and memory bridges the gap — or nothing does.

Siloed Not portable

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EHR — Electronic Health Record

A longitudinal digital record that follows the patient across every provider they ever visit. It includes the full life history — PHC visits, district hospital labs, specialist referrals, pharmacy dispenses, imaging — all linked to one identity. EHR is what ABDM was built to enable.

Longitudinal Patient-centric

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Interoperability — The Missing Layer

Interoperability means hospital A’s EMR can securely share records with hospital B’s EHR system, in a standard format, with patient consent. FHIR R4 is the standard. ABDM is the consent framework. UHIN is the interoperability layer that connects every EMR to every EHR across India.

FHIR R4 ABDM consent

Without UHIN — today’s reality

✗Patient visits AIIMS with chest pain. Doctor has zero access to ECG taken at district hospital 3 months ago.

✗Blood work is repeated — the district hospital result exists but is locked in their EMR silo.

✗Patient carries a plastic bag of photocopied reports, half of which are illegible or missing.

✗Allergy to Penicillin recorded at Apollo 2 years ago is unknown to the prescribing doctor. Adverse event risk is high.

✗Insurance pre-auth takes 3 days because there is no structured clinical data to assess the claim against.

With UHIN — what changes

✓ABHA lookup at AIIMS pulls ECG, lab results, and consult notes from district hospital in <3 seconds.

✓Zero repeat blood work. Doctor sees the result already on screen — timestamped, FHIR-structured, trusted.

✓Patient’s full longitudinal record from every ABDM-registered facility — portable, digital, consent-governed.

✓Allergy alert fires the moment the patient’s ABHA is looked up — before a prescription is written.

✓Insurance pre-auth resolved in 2.4 hours via structured FHIR ClaimRequest with full clinical backing.

Federated Data Architecture

One vault. Five stores. Zero silos.

Purpose-separated stores with strict RBAC. PII tokenised at ingest. Analytics, pharma and insurance layers never see patient identity. All data on AWS Mumbai or NIC MeghRaj.

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Per-patient AES-256 keys — each patient’s records encrypted with their own unique AWS KMS key

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India data residency — all data on AWS ap-south-1 or NIC MeghRaj. Never leaves India.

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WORM audit trail — append-only immutable log. Every access permanently recorded.

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Secure Health Data Vault

HAPI FHIR R4 · AWS RDS PostgreSQL 15 · AWS KMS

🏥 Clinical Store

Encounters · Rx · Labs · Imaging

💳 Claims Store

Coverage · Pre-auth · Fraud

💊 Pharmacy Store

Dispensing · Demand · Batch

📈 Analytics Store

De-identified · k-Anon · IRB

PII tokenised at ingest · NIC MeghRaj / AWS ap-south-1 · CERT-In registered

Regulatory Foundation

Built on the ABDM mandate. Not bolted on.

ABDM compliance is a structural moat. The 18–24 month HIP/HIU certification timeline means no entrant can shortcut it. UHIN is native to this framework from day one.

ABDM HIP/HIU NRCeS profiles DPDP Act 2023 IT Act / SPDI IRDAI Health

Compliance Coverage

Full Security & Compliance →

Market Opportunity

₹4.2 lakh crore
addressable by 2030

FICCI-EY Vision 2030 · IBEF Healthcare 2024 · IRDAI 2022–23

~85 Cr

ABHA IDs · Jan 2026

32%

Digital health CAGR

₹42 Cr

Year 3 ARR target

7

Stakeholder modules

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India’s health data future
is being built right now.

Whether you’re a hospital going ABDM-compliant, an insurer wanting real-time pre-auth, or an investor backing India’s digital health transformation.

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Aadhaar. ABHA. Mobile. Walk in. Records appear. No forms. No repeats. Always.