Dr. Harsh Vardhan Launches “Hospital Ranking Dashboard” For AB-PMJAY Empanelled Hospitals
Union Health Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan launched today a “Hospital Ranking Dashboard” made available on the website of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) which is a significant step to rank empanelled hospitals with the help of star ratings on the basis of beneficiaries’ feedback.
The hospital ranking will help NHA to take evidence based decision making for enhancing the quality measures and indicators of healthcare delivery across all empanelled facilities to further improve the beneficiaries’ experience.
Till date the 7,282 hospitals have been rated out of 21,491 Empanelled Hospital based on the 6,48,688 feedback received by the beneficiaries’. The rated hospitals can be search by name of the hospital or by state/districts.
AB-PMJAY is the flagship health assurance scheme of the Government of India and it marked 1 crore treatments today. To mark this milestone, Dr. Vardhan inaugurated the first edition of Arogya Dhara, a series of webinars created as an open platform for discussion on topical issues of public health.
Ayushman Bharat Scheme is providing affordable healthcare in the form of tertiary hospital treatment to poor and vulnerable Indians through a health cover of Rs.5 lakh per family per year.
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Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said, “Providing 1 crore treatments to patients from the country’s poorest households since its launch less than two years ago is a milestone achievement for Ayushman Bharat PMJAY scheme. These treatments worth Rs 13,412 crore have been provided through a growing network of 21,565 public and private empanelled hospitals.”
Dr. Vardhan also launched a ‘Ask Ayushman’ chat bot on WhatsApp, a 24×7 AI-enabled assistant that provides information on various aspects of the AB-PMJAY scheme such as its benefits, features, process of making an e-card, locating the nearest empanelled hospital, sharing feedback and the process of lodging a grievance.
One of the key features of the chat bot is that it is able to comprehend and respond in Hindi and English languages. It also provides text-to-speech feature for the users and can be universally used on all major social media platforms.
