Aarogya Setu

National Health Authority

About this app

Aarogya Setu is a mobile application developed by the Government of India which connects the various essential health services with the people of India. The application is playing a crucial role in our combined fight against COVID-19 and now, has evolved as the National Health application to serve the people of India in an exemplary way. The application has come up with an intuitive User Interface and comprehensive features such as ABHA (Health ID) creation, discovery & linking of health records to enable longitudinal digital health records, Simplified Consent Management for sharing these records, and a Seamless Search feature to find Nearby Hospitals, Labs and Blood Banks.

The following are some of the key features of the Aarogya Setu platform:

● Creation of ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account) that helps in building and maintaining longitudinal health records and allow accessing your information right from admission to treatment and discharge in a paperless manner
● Discovery and linking of health records, Consent Management for sharing health records
● eRaktKosh API (provided by CDAC) integration that allows users to search for nearby Blood Banks and the availability of blood units in real-time for different Blood Groups. Various filters and some crucial information like contact number, email, distance, direction, navigation, etc. are also provided for users’ convenience.
● Self-Assessment test based on ICMR guidelines
● Facilitates the Registration of Covid-19 vaccine registration
● Facilitates the download of the Covid-19 vaccine certificate
● A completely revamped User Interface and User Experience
● Open API based Health Status Check
● Updates, advisory, and best practices related to COVID-19
● Nation-wide COVID-19 statistics
● Emergency COVID-19 Helpline contacts
● List of ICMR approved Labs with COVID-19 testing facilities
● Provides the infection Status of the User
● QR Code scan feature to share Health Status
● Support for over 12 Languages

Key Permissions required by the App:

● Camera permission for scanning QR code
● Location Permission to provide location-based services like nearby blood banks, hospitals, labs, etc.
● Media Permission to allow downloading Health Records, Vaccination Certificate, and others.

Ratings and reviews

The app fails to start even after 18 hours of downtime. Only throws "there is some error logging you in" ur way without providing step-by-step ways to resolve the issue. A simple Google search tells u people have been posting stopgap measures for this problem since 2021 and the app devs have still yet to address the core problem. For the record, I have done everything to make the app work. Turning on bluetooth & location, syncing the date with the network, etc.

More cons than pros. The idea is good not the implementation. A lot of the information provided is misleading or lie. Like when you are setting up the app you get the option to keep the Bluetooth always on or when your app is on. It says that you can change this in setting later. Trust me you can't. Apart from the option to let other apps access this one & to completely delete the account, there is nothing there. It consumes a lot of battery too even when you disable the bluetooth.

This is an extremely good effort, I just want to suggest that, advertise these type of apps as much as you can, so that most of the person have it installed, only then the efforts will be fruit full. I also want to add that some smartphone makers use aggressive background app killer, so I have noticed that the app is not able to operate in background, if mobile is on standby mode( when screen is off) after 20-30 minutes, If any solution you can make it will be more beneficial.

What’s new

Bug fixes and stability improvements