{"id":55975,"date":"2026-01-20T18:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/?p=55975"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:03:33","slug":"chintan-shivir-lays-out-way-forward-for-abdm-and-abpmjay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2026\/01\/20\/chintan-shivir-lays-out-way-forward-for-abdm-and-abpmjay\/","title":{"rendered":"Chintan Shivir lays out way forward for ABDM and ABPMJAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Two awards came to Odisha<\/p>\n

Chief Secretary directed to promote Ease of Treatment for patients<\/p>\n

Bhubaneswar, 20\/01\/2026 ( Odisha Samachar \/ Rajat Mohapatra )- Two-day Chintan Shivir hoisted by Odisha at the capital city of Bhubaneswar was concluded today afternoon with Chief Secretary Smt Anu Garg giving the valedictory address. Addressing the Shivir,\u00a0 Smt Garg said \u201cGood governance in health sector should aim at facilitating the ease of treatment for the last person in line\u201d. She added, \u201cwhen a diseased person goes to hospital, he\/she gets bothered about where to go, how to get the name registered quickly, which doctor to be consulted, where to give samples for pathological tests, when the reports will be available, and whether it would be possible to show test reports to the doctor during OPD hours on that day. We should develop a system to reduce these worries of the patients with proper facilitation mechanism through application of technology and AI\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this session, performance based National Health Authority ( NHA) Awards were declared out of which two awards\u00a0 came to Odisha. Chief Secretary Smt Garg presented the awards and mementos. Uttar Pradesh, Daman and Diu, Mizoram, Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh, Telengana and Andaman & Nicobar\u00a0\u00a0 got awards for\u00a0 best practices on different indicators in ABPMJAY. Odisha was awarded for best performance in generation and distribution of\u00a0 co-branded ABPMJAY-GJAY cards to the beneficiaries. Within a short period of 9 months, Odisha has generated 3.46 cr cards\u00a0 for the beneficiaries. Similarly, 5 awards and prizes were given for best performance in Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission ( ABDM). Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jamu & Kashmir, AIIMS Bhubaneswar, Odisha,\u00a0 and Gujarat received these awards from Chief Secretary Smt Garg. AIIMS Bhubaneswar was awarded for best performance in digital health record linking.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0In this 2-days of the Shivir, around 25 major dimensions of ABPMJAY and ABDM were presented and detail discussions were held by national experts through sharing of ideas and field experiences. Mostly,\u00a0\u00a0 the topics like key performance indicators of ABPMJAY and ABDM, time target for pre-auth approval in interest of the patients at the time of admission in hospitals, pharmacy and drug registry, strategies and benefits of adopting ABDM, tools for prevention of possible fraud, methods for timely settlement of claims raised by empaneled hospitals, getting NABH certification and benefits thereof\u00a0 for the hospitals, application of AI tools for analysis of\u00a0 healthcare dynamics and health service delivery, the methods and challenges in adoption of AI in healthcare figured in deliberations.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chief Executive Officer NHA\u00a0 Sunil Kumar Barnwal in his address complimented Odisha for having set a high benchmark and model in quality of arranging national level chintan Shivir. He emphasized on creation of digital data both in public and private sector health facilities for an informed decision making.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Principal Secretary Health\u00a0 Rajsthan Gayatri Rathore, Principal Secretary Health Meghalaya Sampath Kumar, Secretary Health and Family Welfare Odisha Smt Aswathy S., CEO State Health Assurance Society Dr Brundha D. along with senior officers from NHA, 27 states and 7 territories participated in the deliberations.\u00a0\u00a0 Samuel V Pachuau, Joint Secretary NHA presented the vote of thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Two awards came to Odisha Chief Secretary directed to promote Ease of Treatment for patients Bhubaneswar, 20\/01\/2026 ( Odisha Samachar \/ Rajat Mohapatra )- Two-day Chintan Shivir hoisted by Odisha at the capital city of Bhubaneswar was concluded today afternoon with Chief Secretary Smt Anu Garg giving the valedictory address. Addressing the Shivir,\u00a0 Smt Garg …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55978,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55975\/revisions\/55978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}