New Delhi, June 30 -- Union health minister JP Nadda on Monday launched a revamped Aarogya Setu app that transforms the Covid-19 contact-tracing platform into a personal health record application, along with a Unified Health Interface (UHI) and a national Drug Registry aimed at expanding India's digital health ecosystem. The revamped Aarogya Setu app will function as a citizen-facing application under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), allowing users to create an Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA), access and manage digital health records, and register for ABDM-enabled services. According to the health ministry, the app has nearly 20 crore downloads, providing an opportunity to accelerate the adoption of digital health services across the country. The app will enable users to digitise medical records, including lab reports, create personalised health dashboards based on medical history, and monitor health through integrated vitals, reminders, goal tracking and syncing with wearable devices for parameters such as steps, calories, heart rate and glucose levels. It will also include a PM-JAY Wallet showing healthcare coverage, balance, utilisation and family-wise consumption. Other features include locating nearby healthcare facilities, booking ambulances, managing medications with reminders, and searching for Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY empanelled hospitals offering cashless treatment. Nadda also launched the Unified Health Interface (UHI), the service layer of ABDM that enables patients and healthcare providers to connect across different digital platforms without requiring both parties to be on the same application. The health ministry said the open network uses common technical standards to allow users to discover, book and access healthcare services through any UHI-enabled app. It is built on ABDM's core digital infrastructure, including ABHA, the Healthcare Professionals Registry, the Health Facility Registry and the Health Information Exchange for consent-based data sharing. "Digitisation is no longer an option, it's a necessity and we will see to it that health care in India is digitized to make it citizen-centric. If we want to be a developed country by 2047, we will have to be digital India." The minister also launched the drugs registry that was in works for a long time, to standardise medicine-related information across the health care ecosystem. The health ministry said the registry aims to address inconsistencies arising from medicines being represented under different names and formats, which can affect clinical decision-making, e-prescriptions, supply chains and continuity of care. Built on standardised terminology, it will support consistent identification, storage and exchange of drug data across healthcare systems. With the addition of the Drug Registry, ABDM's core digital infrastructure now comprises four registries: the ABHA Registry, Healthcare Professionals Registry, Health Facility Registry and Drug Registry....