New Delhi, June 29 -- Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda on Monday launched the Drug Registry, a unified and standardised digital platform for drug-related information, aimed at ensuring consistent identification, storage, exchange and usage of medicine data across healthcare systems in the country.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Drug Registry has been conceptualised under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) and will serve as a single source of truth for medicines in India. The ministry said the platform seeks to address inconsistencies arising from the use of different names and formats for the same drug across healthcare systems, which can lead to duplication, data entry ...