As the medical officer of a newly opened PHC in Palakkad, you want patients and other providers on the national digital health network to be able to verify that you are a registered doctor. The district is moving all its facilities onto ABDM this year. Under ABDM, in which registry should you enrol yourself?

Healthcare Professionals Registry

A block programme manager notices that many infants who receive pentavalent-1 never return for pentavalent-3, although coverage of pentavalent-1 in the block is above 95%. After U-WIN is introduced, parents begin to receive a message on their phone a few days before each dose falls due. Which feature of U-WIN is helping to reduce these drop-outs?

Automatic SMS reminders of due doses

Cash transfer to the mother for each dose

A printed growth chart for each child

A home visit by the medical officer

An audit of e-prescriptions issued through a state's eSanjeevani OPD finds that some lack details required under the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines 2020. Which detail must every telemedicine prescription carry?

The doctor's registration number

A countersignature by the dispensing pharmacist

A construction worker from Odisha, whose family holds an Ayushman card, falls from scaffolding in Kochi and fractures his femur. Co-workers bring him, in pain and with a deformed thigh, to an empanelled private hospital. He worries that the card works only in Odisha. What should the hospital's PM-JAY helpdesk tell him?

He can get cashless care at any empanelled hospital in India

He must return to Odisha for the card to be valid

He needs a referral from an Odisha PHC first

He can use it only in government hospitals in Kerala

New national schemes and digital health

57 NEET-PG practice questions on New national schemes and digital health, part of Community Medicine. The first 25 are below; the first 5 with answers and explanations (tap Show answer after you have chosen), the rest in Learn with a free account.

Question 1 · Easy
As the medical officer of a newly opened PHC in Palakkad, you want patients and other providers on the national digital health network to be able to verify that you are a registered doctor. The district is moving all its facilities onto ABDM this year. Under ABDM, in which registry should you enrol yourself?
1. AUnified Health Interface
2. BHealth Facility Registry
3. CHealthcare Professionals Registry
4. DPersonal Health Record app
Show answerHide answer
Answer: C · Healthcare Professionals Registry
ABDM has two provider registries: the Healthcare Professionals Registry for doctors, nurses and other professionals, verified against their council registration, and the Health Facility Registry for hospitals, clinics, laboratories and pharmacies. The PHC itself goes in the facility registry, while each doctor enrols in the professionals registry. Verified entries let others trust records and prescriptions that move across the network. Key point: Under ABDM, doctors enrol in the Healthcare Professionals Registry; hospitals and clinics in the Health Facility Registry.
- A: The Unified Health Interface is a network for discovering and booking services.
- B: The Health Facility Registry lists the PHC, not the doctors who work there.
- D: A PHR app is the patient's tool for keeping and sharing records.
Question 2 · Medium
A block programme manager notices that many infants who receive pentavalent-1 never return for pentavalent-3, although coverage of pentavalent-1 in the block is above 95%. After U-WIN is introduced, parents begin to receive a message on their phone a few days before each dose falls due. Which feature of U-WIN is helping to reduce these drop-outs?
1. AAutomatic SMS reminders of due doses
2. BCash transfer to the mother for each dose
3. CA printed growth chart for each child
4. DA home visit by the medical officer
Show answerHide answer
Answer: A · Automatic SMS reminders of due doses
U-WIN sends SMS acknowledgements after each dose and reminders before the next one, and it gives health workers due lists of left-outs and drop-outs to follow up. Reminders tackle forgetfulness, a common cause of drop-out between the first and third doses. Cash incentives and growth charts are not part of the U-WIN platform. Key point: U-WIN reduces drop-outs through SMS reminders of due doses and due lists for health workers.
- B: U-WIN does not pay cash for vaccination.
- C: Growth charts are part of the MCP card, not U-WIN reminders.
- D: Medical officers do not visit homes for each dose; ANMs and ASHAs track defaulters.
Question 3 · Medium
During the national HPV vaccination campaign of 2026, a school-based session is held in Kollam for girls who have completed 14 years but not 15; consent forms were sent home a week earlier. Before a girl receives her single dose of the vaccine, what must the vaccinator make sure is recorded on U-WIN?
1. AA negative pregnancy test
2. BHer HPV DNA test result
3. CA normal Pap smear report
4. DParental consent
Show answerHide answer
Answer: D · Parental consent
The 2026 campaign gives one dose of quadrivalent HPV vaccine free to girls who have completed 14 years but not 15, and parental consent is recorded on U-WIN before vaccination. No test is needed before vaccinating adolescents, because the vaccine is prophylactic and works best before any exposure to HPV. Cervical screening with Pap or HPV DNA testing is for adult women. Key point: In the 2026 HPV campaign, parental consent is recorded on U-WIN; no test is needed before the single dose.
- A: A pregnancy test is not part of HPV vaccination of adolescent girls.
- B: HPV DNA testing is a screening test for women aged 30 and over.
- C: Pap smears screen adult women, not girls before vaccination.
Question 4 · Medium
An audit of e-prescriptions issued through a state's eSanjeevani OPD finds that some lack details required under the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines 2020. Which detail must every telemedicine prescription carry?
1. AThe doctor's registration number
2. BThe doctor's mobile number
3. CA countersignature by the dispensing pharmacist
4. DThe patient's Aadhaar number
Show answerHide answer
Answer: A · The doctor's registration number
Under the 2020 guidelines, a telemedicine prescription must show the doctor's name, qualification and registration number with the State Medical Council or NMC, in the prescribed format, along with the patient's details. The registration number lets the pharmacist and patient check that the prescriber is a registered medical practitioner. Aadhaar is not required, and personal phone numbers are not mandatory. Key point: Every telemedicine prescription must carry the doctor's name, qualification and registration number.
- B: A personal mobile number is not mandatory.
- C: Prescriptions are not countersigned by pharmacists.
- D: Aadhaar is not required on a prescription.
Question 5 · Medium
A construction worker from Odisha, whose family holds an Ayushman card, falls from scaffolding in Kochi and fractures his femur. Co-workers bring him, in pain and with a deformed thigh, to an empanelled private hospital. He worries that the card works only in Odisha. What should the hospital's PM-JAY helpdesk tell him?
1. AHe must return to Odisha for the card to be valid
2. BHe needs a referral from an Odisha PHC first
3. CHe can get cashless care at any empanelled hospital in India
4. DHe can use it only in government hospitals in Kerala
Show answerHide answer
Answer: C · He can get cashless care at any empanelled hospital in India
PM-JAY is portable: a beneficiary can get cashless treatment at any empanelled public or private hospital anywhere in India, which matters greatly for migrant workers. The hospital verifies identity through the beneficiary database and the claim is settled between the states. No referral from home is needed for an emergency like a femur fracture. Key point: PM-JAY is portable nationwide; beneficiaries get cashless care at any empanelled hospital in India.
- A: The card is valid across India, not only in the home state.
- B: No referral from the home state is needed.
- D: Private empanelled hospitals also give cashless care.
Question 6 · Medium
At a TB unit in Malappuram, sputum from a newly diagnosed patient is positive for acid-fast bacilli on microscopy. He has never been treated for TB before, and his HIV test is negative. Under the national TB programme's policy of universal drug susceptibility testing, what should be done with his sample at diagnosis?
1. ASend for second-line line probe assay only
2. BTreat first; test only if still smear-positive at 2 months
3. CWait for liquid culture before starting treatment
4. DTest for rifampicin resistance by NAAT (Truenat or CBNAAT)
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 7 · Hard
About supplementation under Anaemia Mukt Bharat: 1. Children aged 6-59 months receive IFA syrup twice a week. 2. School-going adolescents receive one IFA tablet weekly. 3. Pregnant women should be dewormed in the first trimester. 4. Non-pregnant women of reproductive age take IFA daily throughout the year. Which statements are correct?
1. A1, 3 and 4 only
2. B1 and 2 only
3. C1, 2 and 3 only
4. D2 and 4 only
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 8 · Hard
A farmer in Kollam, whose family holds an Ayushman card, has had high blood pressure for three years and needs a monthly BP check and a refill of amlodipine. He has also been told he needs repair of a right inguinal hernia. He lives 2 km from an Ayushman Arogya Mandir run by a community health officer, and 25 km from a private hospital empanelled under PM-JAY. Neither need is an emergency. He asks the ASHA where each need will be met free of cost under Ayushman Bharat. What is the correct advice?
1. ABP care under PM-JAY; hernia repair at the Arogya Mandir
2. BBoth under PM-JAY at the empanelled hospital
3. CBoth at the Ayushman Arogya Mandir
4. DBP care at the Arogya Mandir; hernia repair cashless under PM-JAY
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 9 · Medium
A PM-JAY beneficiary has a laparoscopic cholecystectomy at an empanelled private hospital in Thrissur. She had an ultrasound and blood tests there two days before admission and is given medicines for 10 days after discharge. Her total bill is within the family's remaining cover. She asks whether these costs are covered. What is correct?
1. AOnly the stay from admission to discharge is covered
2. BBoth are covered: 3 days before and 15 days after
3. CCovered: 7 days before and 30 days after
4. DOnly medicines are covered, not the tests
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 10 · Medium
The nursing in-charge of a busy labour room finds that steps such as checking for pre-eclampsia at admission, giving oxytocin after birth and checking breastfeeding before discharge are often missed. Under LaQshya, which tool is used at fixed pause points from admission to discharge to prevent such omissions?
1. AWHO Safe Childbirth Checklist
2. BMaternal early warning chart
3. CModified WHO partograph
4. DLabour room delivery register
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 11 · Easy
Which agency implements the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, under which citizens create ABHA numbers and facilities join the national digital health network?
1. ANational Health Authority
2. BUIDAI
3. CICMR
4. DNITI Aayog
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 12 · Easy
U-WIN, rolled out under the Universal Immunization Programme, is best described as which kind of digital tool?
1. AWeekly surveillance portal for measles cases
2. BBooking portal for COVID-19 vaccines only
3. CElectronic vaccine stock and cold-chain tracker
4. DName-based registry of each UIP vaccination
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 13 · Medium
Health teams go house to house in an urban slum in Kozhikode, a tribal hamlet in Attappadi and the district jail, asking everyone about cough, fever and weight loss and offering chest X-rays to all, instead of waiting for people to come to the clinic. Which TB control strategy is this?
1. AActive case finding
2. BPassive case finding
3. CContact tracing
4. DSentinel surveillance
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 14 · Hard
Services the national TB programme offers to every notified patient: 1. Testing for HIV. 2. Screening for diabetes with a blood glucose test. 3. Testing for rifampicin resistance. 4. A BCG booster dose to prevent relapse. Which of these are correct?
1. A2 and 4 only
2. B1 and 3 only
3. C1, 2, 3 and 4
4. D1, 2 and 3 only
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 15 · Easy
Anaemia Mukt Bharat is summed up as a 6x6x6 strategy. What do the three sixes stand for?
1. AInterventions, beneficiary groups and institutional mechanisms
2. BStates, age groups and iron supplements
3. CMonths of IFA, tablets per week and Hb tests
4. DBeneficiary groups, nutrients and yearly targets
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 16 · Medium
At a CHC cold-chain point, the vaccine handler updates stock on a smartphone after each session, and a temperature logger in the ice-lined refrigerator sends an alert when the reading goes above 8 °C. District officers see stock-outs and temperature breaches on a dashboard in real time. Which system is she using?
1. AU-WIN
2. BIHIP
3. CeVIN
4. DNi-kshay
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 17 · Hard
A physician in Kozhikode asks, through his hospital software, to see a patient's discharge summaries held at two other hospitals. The request goes to the ABDM consent manager, and the patient approves it on her phone for 30 days. Which statement best describes the consent manager's role in this exchange?
1. AIt records her consent; it cannot read the records
2. BIt may approve urgent requests on her behalf
3. CIt checks the physician's medical degree before each request
4. DIt stores an encrypted copy of each record
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 18 · Medium
During an eSanjeevani OPD video consultation, a woman with metastatic breast cancer and severe pain asks the doctor to prescribe oral morphine, as her earlier stock has run out. What should the doctor do, under the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines 2020?
1. APrescribe it, since this is a video and not an audio consultation
2. BPrescribe it if she shows the old prescription
3. CNot prescribe it remotely; arrange in-person care
4. DPrescribe a 3-day supply only
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 19 · Easy
Which web-based portal of the national TB programme do public and private providers use to notify TB patients and track their treatment and payments?
1. ANi-kshay
2. BIHIP
3. CU-WIN
4. DHMIS
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 20 · Medium
A household survey team asks how a landless agricultural labourer's family in Palakkad became eligible for AB PM-JAY when the scheme began in 2018, though they had never applied. On what basis were the original beneficiary families identified?
1. ASelf-declaration at the hospital
2. BSECC 2011 deprivation and occupational criteria
3. CBPL ration cards newly issued by the state after 2018
4. DIncome tax returns below a set limit
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 21 · Easy
Under AB PM-JAY, how much hospitalisation cover does an eligible family receive?
1. ARs 5 lakh per person per year
2. BRs 30,000 per family per year
3. CRs 1 lakh per family per year
4. DRs 5 lakh per family per year
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 22 · Medium
A woman with hypothyroidism has reports from a private laboratory in Kochi, a medical college in Thrissur and the PHC near her home. She wants to see all of them on her phone, linked to her ABHA, and to decide whom she shows them to. Which ABDM component lets her do this?
1. AThe Healthcare Professionals Registry
2. BThe Unified Health Interface
3. CA Personal Health Record app
4. DThe Health Facility Registry
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 23 · Easy
LaQshya, launched by the Health Ministry in December 2017, aims to improve the quality of care in which areas of a facility?
1. APostnatal ward and sterilisation OT
2. BLabour room and maternity operation theatre
3. CAntenatal clinic and ultrasound room
4. DSNCU and newborn stabilisation unit
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 24 · Medium
A retired bank officer of 72 with a monthly pension asks his family physician whether he can be covered under AB PM-JAY, since his family was never on the beneficiary list. He has diabetes and stable angina. What is the correct advice, under the expansion announced in October 2024?
1. AHe is not eligible, as his family is not on the SECC list
2. BHe is eligible only if his family income is below the poverty line
3. CHe is eligible regardless of income, with a Vay Vandana card
4. DHe is eligible only for outpatient care and medicines
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account
Question 25 · Medium
At a hospital kiosk, a nurse who already has an ABHA number is asked to set up a short, easy-to-remember identifier of the form rani@abdm, which she will use to log in to her PHR app and receive her records. The kiosk also links her past records from this hospital. What is this identifier called?
1. AHealth facility ID
2. BHealthcare professional ID
3. CABHA number
4. DABHA address
Answer and explanation in LearnFree account

32 more New national schemes and digital health questions

Answer them one by one, keep your score and see your weak topics in Learn. Signed-out visitors try 25 per exam; sign in with Google to see them all.

Study Community Medicine

New national schemes and digital health

An audit of e-prescriptions issued through a state's eSanjeevani OPD finds that some lack details required under the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines 2020. Which detail must every telemedicine prescription carry?

Which agency implements the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, under which citizens create ABHA numbers and facilities join the national digital health network?

U-WIN, rolled out under the Universal Immunization Programme, is best described as which kind of digital tool?

Health teams go house to house in an urban slum in Kozhikode, a tribal hamlet in Attappadi and the district jail, asking everyone about cough, fever and weight loss and offering chest X-rays to all, instead of waiting for people to come to the clinic. Which TB control strategy is this?

Services the national TB programme offers to every notified patient: 1. Testing for HIV. 2. Screening for diabetes with a blood glucose test. 3. Testing for rifampicin resistance. 4. A BCG booster dose to prevent relapse. Which of these are correct?

Anaemia Mukt Bharat is summed up as a 6x6x6 strategy. What do the three sixes stand for?

During an eSanjeevani OPD video consultation, a woman with metastatic breast cancer and severe pain asks the doctor to prescribe oral morphine, as her earlier stock has run out. What should the doctor do, under the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines 2020?

Which web-based portal of the national TB programme do public and private providers use to notify TB patients and track their treatment and payments?

A household survey team asks how a landless agricultural labourer's family in Palakkad became eligible for AB PM-JAY when the scheme began in 2018, though they had never applied. On what basis were the original beneficiary families identified?

Under AB PM-JAY, how much hospitalisation cover does an eligible family receive?

A woman with hypothyroidism has reports from a private laboratory in Kochi, a medical college in Thrissur and the PHC near her home. She wants to see all of them on her phone, linked to her ABHA, and to decide whom she shows them to. Which ABDM component lets her do this?

LaQshya, launched by the Health Ministry in December 2017, aims to improve the quality of care in which areas of a facility?

A retired bank officer of 72 with a monthly pension asks his family physician whether he can be covered under AB PM-JAY, since his family was never on the beneficiary list. He has diabetes and stable angina. What is the correct advice, under the expansion announced in October 2024?

At a hospital kiosk, a nurse who already has an ABHA number is asked to set up a short, easy-to-remember identifier of the form rani@abdm, which she will use to log in to her PHR app and receive her records. The kiosk also links her past records from this hospital. What is this identifier called?