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Aarogya Setu 2.0 Adds Google Gemma For India Health Records

BySendTech Times Capital & Policy DeskNewsroom-edited, source-reviewed coverage|Source: Medianama
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India launched Aarogya Setu 2.0 on June 29, 2026 as an AI-enabled personal health-record app using Google Gemma and a medical data toolkit, but public materials have not named an independent privacy audit or model-risk assessment.

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Aarogya Setu 2.0 Adds Google Gemma For India Health Records
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India Relaunches Aarogya Setu As A Health-Record App

India has launched Aarogya Setu 2.0 as an AI-enabled personal health-record platform under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.

Union Health Minister JP Nadda launched the updated app on June 29, 2026.

The app was originally built for COVID-19 contact tracing and later handed to the National Health Authority by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

The new version changes the service from a pandemic-era tracing app into a central application for digital health services.

Google Gemma Converts Medical Documents

The app uses Google’s Gemma model and Google’s open-source Medical Data Toolkit.

The toolkit is described as converting unstructured medical documents, images and screenshots into electronic medical data in the HL7 FHIR standard format.

Aarogya Setu 2.0 is expected to convert medical documents and images into standardized health data.

The disclosed functions also include ABHA creation, health-record management, hospital registration through Scan & Register, insurance tracking, healthcare discovery, ambulance booking and medication reminders.

Consent Controls Sit Beside Wearable And Insurance Data

The feature list includes consent management so users can track and control data-sharing permissions.

It also includes wearable-device syncing for vital signs, steps, calories, heart rate and glucose levels.

Nadda said more than 90 crore ABHA accounts have been created and more than 100 crore health records have been linked under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.

Those figures show the scale of the health-data system into which the updated app is being placed.

The same materials list healthcare discovery tools, GPS-based doctor and facility searches, PM-JAY empanelled hospital search, real-time blood-unit availability through e-RaktKosh and ambulance booking.

That makes the app a gateway to multiple health workflows, not only a document vault.

Privacy Proof Is Still Outside The Public Materials

Aarogya Setu’s earlier contact-tracing role remains part of the trust question around the relaunch.

The National Informatics Centre said in August 2022 that the Aarogya Setu Data Access and Knowledge Sharing Protocol had been discontinued; that 2020 protocol had allowed retention of contact, location and self-assessment data for up to 180 days.

MeitY told Parliament in February 2023 that COVID-19 contact-tracing data collected through the app had been deleted.

India’s broader AI-in-health policy materials include SAHI in February 2026, BODH in March 2026 and telemedicine guidance that says only registered medical practitioners can counsel patients or prescribe medicines.

India’s public materials describe the app functions, AI tools and consent-management feature, but they did not name an independent privacy audit, model-risk assessment, clinical validation study or security review for Aarogya Setu 2.0.

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