Aarogya Setu

Aarogya Setu Aarogya Setu is a healthcare app for India that helps you locate nearby hospitals and ICMR-approved labs, schedule consultations, check COVID risk, and manage your ABHA health record.

Aarogya Setu

Aarogya Setu is a healthcare app built for users across India. It helps you locate nearby hospitals and laboratories fast, and also supports booking appointments and consultations—making the overall process simpler while helping protect public health.

The app includes detailed information on common conditions, such as treatment approaches and symptom guidance, so users can perform self-checks at home. Aarogya Setu is regularly updated with new capabilities to make health consultations and management more convenient.

Key Features

Aarogya Setu offers several tools focused on public health and day-to-day well-being:

• Nationwide COVID-19 updates: Get real-time COVID-19 statistics, including infection rates and trends across India.
• Emergency helplines: Access COVID-19 emergency contact details when support is needed.
• ICMR-approved testing labs: Find laboratories approved by the ICMR for COVID-19 testing and reach out conveniently for testing.
• Personal infection status assessment: The app evaluates your infection risk status using health-related inputs and exposure details, then provides feedback tailored to you.
• QR-based sharing: Scan a QR code to share your health status with others, helping with easier communication about health conditions.
• ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account): Create and maintain a longitudinal, paperless health record through ABHA. It supports a continuous health journey—from admission to treatment and discharge—while using linked records and consent tools to give users better control over sharing.
• eRaktKosh integration (CDAC): Search nearby blood banks and view real-time availability of blood units for multiple blood groups. You can filter by distance and see contact information and directions.
• ICMR-guided self-assessment: Answer a questionnaire based on ICMR recommendations to understand symptoms and decide whether you should seek further medical care.



• Vaccination support: Register for COVID-19 vaccination and download your vaccination certificate after vaccination.

Highlights

• ABHA creation and login: Set up and sign in to your ABHA using Aadhaar face authentication.
• Record access across ABDM facilities: View health records from any ABDM-enabled facility.
• DigiLocker upload: Store health records securely in government-approved storage via DigiLocker for personal and family health management.



• “Scan and Share” for OPD: Use QR scanning to support OPD registration at ABDM-enabled hospitals, clinics, and labs.
• “Scan and Pay”: Make digital payments for health services at registered locations using Scan and Pay.
• PMJAY details (NHCX): View PMJAY (Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana) empanelled hospitals, treatment information, and family wallet balances through National Health Claim Exchange (NHCX).



• Family health in one place: Add family members to your account for centralized health management.
• Consent-based sharing: Share health records at ABDM-enabled facilities based on consent.
• Find care anywhere in India: Discover doctors, labs, hospitals, and blood banks, including blood availability.

User Feedback

Technical note to developers: The reviewer previously praised the app, but reports that in the current version the loading time feels longer. They also mention that on slow networks the app lags, and previously loaded data isn’t visible until a proper internet connection is available. The reviewer suggests reviewing the recent technical stack changes—whether the app is web-based (caching behavior) or native (offline data storage changes)—because they believe it affects user experience. They also note that the “Donate Now” button is missing in the current build and recommend fixing it quickly in a release.

Feature idea suggestion: The reviewer proposes adding a contact tracing capability. They believe the hardest part is contact tracing itself, and suggest broadcasting a unique ID to nearby phones using Google Nearby APIs and Google Maps, then receiving those unique IDs. They also mention that blockchain could help store and manage the data. If someone becomes infected, the system could share a list of people they had close contact with—both known contacts (friends, neighbors) and unknown contacts in high-traffic places (railways, bus stations, airports).