ABDM Milestones M1, M2 and M3 Explained for Hospitals

Quick answer

• M1, ABHA: create and verify the patient's ABHA during registration.
• M2, HIP: your hospital links its records to the patient's ABHA and shares them when the patient consents.
• M3, HIU: your doctors request and view records from other facilities, with patient consent.

Before any milestone

Your facility needs an HFR ID and your doctors need HPR IDs. See the HFR guide and the HPR registration guide.

M1: ABHA create and verify

The registration desk creates a new ABHA with Aadhaar or mobile OTP, or verifies an existing one, and saves it on the patient record. This is the step patients notice, so explain the benefits of ABHA at the desk.

M2: Hospital as Health Information Provider

After M1, your software links visits, reports and prescriptions to the patient's ABHA. When another facility or the patient's health records app asks for them and the patient approves, your system sends them in the standard health data format.

M3: Hospital as Health Information User

Your doctors raise a consent request for a patient's records from other facilities. Once the patient approves, the records arrive in your software for the approved period only.

Recommended order

1. HFR for the facility and HPR for doctors
2. M1 in the sandbox, then production
3. M2, once ABHA is routinely captured at registration
4. M3, when doctors need outside records regularly

Choosing software

Ask any vendor which milestones they support today in production, not only in the sandbox. SmartHospital India includes M1 (ABHA create and verify) inside patient registration. For the wider picture, read our ABHA and ABDM integration guide.