The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced on 6 May 2026 that the Swasth Bharat Portal had been launched recently by Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda during the 10th National Summit on Innovation and Inclusivity: Best Practices Shaping India’s Health Future. The Ministry described it as a shift towards integrated, efficient and scalable digital public health architecture. Several digital applications created under national health programmes have supported service delivery, monitoring and reporting, but many operated in silos, causing duplicate work, fragmented datasets and sub-optimal use of resources. Swasth Bharat has therefore been designed as an aggregator platform that integrates existing systems through an API-based federated architecture. It will create a unified digital layer across programmes, bring multiple national health programmes onto a single interface, reduce multiple logins and repetitive data entry, and lower the administrative load on healthcare providers. Frontline health workers such as ASHAs, ANMs, Community Health Officers and Medical Officers often spend considerable time using different applications for programme reporting. The portal aims to give them one platform with data-visualisation tools for monitoring and evidence-based planning. It is ABDM-compliant and supports ABHA integration for secure exchange of patient health records. The Ministry said the portal can later integrate with national registries such as the Healthcare Professionals Registry and Health Facility Registry. Expected efficiency gains include a 20-30% reduction in infrastructure load and a 20-40% reduction in data-entry effort and HR duplication. The portal is intended to advance convergence, efficiency and data-driven governance in public health.