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ABDM & Health Data Readiness Checklist

Twenty practitioner-grade questions to test whether your hospital, clinic, lab, healthtech, HMIS, or EHR vendor is ready for ABDM milestone certification — and DPDP overlap.

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20
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5 min
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The Checklist

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Five sections, twenty yes/no questions. Click Yes only if you can produce the document or run the workflow today.

01

Registries & ABHA

ABDM compliance starts with registry presence and patient ABHA linkage.

1
Our facility is registered in HFR (Health Facility Registry) with current details and unique facility ID.
2
All practising clinicians at our facility are registered in HPR (Healthcare Professional Registry) and linked to the facility.
3
Patient onboarding offers ABHA creation / linkage at the point of registration with documented consent.
4
We have an active ABDM Sandbox / Production account with documented integration milestone status.
02

Consent & Exchange

The HIP / HIU consent-based record exchange flow is the core ABDM compliance.

5
We expose HIP care-context discovery, link, and notification APIs (or HIU equivalents), conformant to ABDM specifications.
6
Consent artefacts received from the Consent Manager are validated, stored, and produce a per-access audit trail.
7
FHIR R4 bundles for our document types (OPConsult, DiagnosticReport, Prescription, DischargeSummary as applicable) follow NDHM-FHIR-IG profiles.
8
A patient can revoke consent and the revocation is honoured within the technical SLA, with audit evidence.
03

Security & Localisation

Health data security baseline — TLS, encryption, RBAC, audit.

9
All HIP / HIU / Consent-Manager APIs use TLS 1.2+ with mutual TLS where required and certificates managed by us.
10
Patient health records are encrypted at rest (AES-256) with HSM-backed keys controlled by our facility, not the vendor.
11
Every record-access event (internal or via ABDM exchange) is logged with user, role, timestamp, and patient ID; logs retained for at least 5 years.
12
Health data is stored primarily in India; cross-border DR (if any) has documented patient-consent and DPDP-compatible safeguards.
04

EHR Standards & FHIR

Conformance to EHR Standards 2016 and current FHIR profiles is non-negotiable for certification.

13
Clinical terminology uses SNOMED CT (clinical), LOINC (lab), ICD-10/11 (diagnosis); custom code-systems are mapped to standards before release.
14
DICOM imaging is integrated into FHIR DiagnosticReport bundles where applicable.
15
FHIR bundles carry digital signatures using the Indian profile or are demonstrably signature-ready in the next release.
16
Vernacular content (Hindi / regional languages) is UTF-8 encoded and round-trips through ABDM exchange without corruption.
05

DPDP, Children & Operations

ABDM is necessary, not sufficient — DPDP and operational hygiene complete the picture.

17
A Data Protection Officer is identified for DPDP purposes alongside ABDM technical leads, with documented responsibilities.
18
Children's (under 18) health-record processing has a verified-parental-consent flow that is testable end-to-end.
19
A breach playbook covers NHA notification, CERT-In (6h), DPDP Board (72h), and patient communication with templates pre-drafted.
20
Annual VAPT by a CERT-In empanelled vendor was completed in the current cycle, with re-test of high/critical findings within 30 days.
What "Ready" Looks Like

Three Bands. Three Plays.

0–7
Not ABDM-ready

Milestone certification will fail. Spend the next 90 days on registry presence, consent flow, FHIR mapping, and key control. Without these basics, ABDM-certified partners will not federate with you.

8–14
Partially ready

Foundations exist but FHIR conformance, signature, or DPDP-overlap gaps remain. Close in the next 60 days; complete milestones; layer DPDP DPO/DPIA work alongside.

15–20
Certification-ready

NHA milestone certification within reach. Move to operational excellence — anomaly detection on exchange, DPDP DPIA cycle, child-data flows, and clinician training on consent UX.

FAQ

Common Questions

Is ABDM mandatory? +

It is increasingly required in practice. AB-PMJAY claim flows, Bima Sugam-based insurance settlement, and modern healthtech partnerships all assume ABDM integration. Voluntary today, de-facto-required tomorrow.

What are the milestones? +

NHA defines 5 milestones for HIP, HIU, HFR-onboarding, HPR-onboarding, and PHR-Apps. Each is verified through a sandbox demonstration plus security review. Production access follows milestone completion.

Does ABDM compliance satisfy DPDP? +

No. ABDM covers federated health-data exchange. DPDP covers all personal-data processing. They overlap on consent and security but most healthcare entities will need both — typically with DPO/DPIA on top of ABDM technical compliance.

Can I use a vendor-hosted EHR and still be ABDM-compliant? +

Yes, if the vendor is ABDM-certified and the architecture preserves your control over keys, consent storage, and audit trail. Many large HMIS vendors are ABDM-certified; verify milestone status, not marketing claims.

What is the difference between this checklist and the buyer's guide? +

The checklist diagnoses ABDM readiness in 5 minutes. The full ABDM & Health Data guide walks through building blocks, HDM Policy, EHR Standards, FHIR, DPDP overlap, and a 90-day roadmap.

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