[1][2] The ABDM aims to develop the backbone necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country.
[3] The Mission aims to create an integrated healthcare system that will link practitioners and patients digitally by giving them access to real-time health records.
This will promote prompt and structured healthcare across the country[4] leading to the creation of a national digital health ecosystem that supports universal health coverage in an efficient, accessible, inclusive, affordable, timely and safe manner.
[7] Forbes remarked that because of the large population of India any precedent for data management in the NDHM (now renamed as ABDM) would establish a model for other national health programs to study.
[7] Commentators for The Ken criticized the announcement of the program for being very expensive with no publicly stated plan for either allocating money to achieve it nor for sustainably funding it in the longer term.