What is a health locker, and what is it not?
In India’s Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), a health locker is a registered digital place where a person can keep copies of health records and share them with consent. The National Health Authority describes ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account) and lockers on abdm.gov.in. PatientSaathi is not a live health locker. This site does not store lab reports, prescriptions, or vaccine records.
What a locker is (official picture, in plain words)
- ABHA is a health ID you can create if you want your records available digitally across participating providers. Official creation is through NHA channels such as abha.abdm.gov.in.
- A health locker (in the ABDM sense) is a service that can hold copies you upload or that a participating hospital/lab shares, under your consent.
- ABDM’s public material describes a federated setup: records are not all sitting in one government folder. Many stay with the hospital or lab that created them.
You do not need an ABHA number just to walk into a Delhi clinic. Some facilities may offer to create or link one. That is optional for a first visit unless that facility says otherwise at their counter.
What it is not
- It is not the paper file or HIS record the hospital keeps on its own system.
- It is not PatientSaathi’s Family Health Record block (that block is “coming soon” and does not store anything).
- It is not Ask Sathi. Ask Sathi is a homepage demo. It does not read your reports and it does not diagnose.
- It is not a backup of every scan you ever did. If a hospital never linked the record, the locker will not magically have it.
For current official rules and apps, use abdm.gov.in. Do not treat this page as an NHA manual.
Official source
In India’s Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, a health locker is described by the National Health Authority at abdm.gov.in. PatientSaathi is not a live locker and does not store lab reports, prescriptions, or vaccine records on this site.
People also ask
- How do I keep lab PDFs and prescriptions in one place?
- How do I get my medical records from a Delhi hospital?
- What is ABHA / ABDM, and do I need it to visit a clinic in Delhi?
Not a doctor. This page is health-admin information for people in Delhi. It is not a diagnosis, a prescription, or a care plan. PatientSaathi does not store your records and does not book doctors on this site. If you feel unwell, talk to a licensed doctor. For a medical emergency in India, contact 112.