The Standards
The national standard asks:
“Was the discharge summary created?”
It does not ask:
“Did the patient understand it?”
NABH 6th Edition introduced digital health standards that hospitals must meet for accreditation. Aakhyān aligns with every relevant clause — and addresses the gaps the standard does not yet name.
AAC.7.a — Patient Information Dissemination
The standard asks for email, WhatsApp, SMS.
Aakhyān delivers voice — not text that a patient with limited literacy cannot read. The standard sets the channel. We set the language.
AAC.6.a — Structured Discharge Summaries
The standard asks that a summary be created.
It does not ask whether the patient can parse 'Tab. Capecitabine 500mg 3-0-3 post meals × 14 days.' Aakhyān converts the structure into spoken comprehension.
AAC.2.b — Notifications & Reminders
The standard asks for appointment reminders.
It does not ask whether the reminder includes the medication instructions the patient forgot. Aakhyān bundles follow-up timing with the full care plan — replayable, in the patient's language.
DAC.1.d — Multiple Digital Channels
The standard asks for digital delivery channels.
It counts SMS and email as sufficient. For a patient in Barak Valley whose primary interface is WhatsApp voice notes, text channels are not access — they are theater.
COP.5.c — Patient Consent under DPDPA 2023
The standard asks for digital consent.
Aakhyān records explicit verbal consent in the patient's language before any data processing. The consent itself is comprehensible — not a form signed in a language the patient does not read.
NABH sets the floor.
Aakhyān is not the ceiling — it is the next room.
See the pilot study for the clinical evidence behind these claims, and the Platform for the full post-discharge communication architecture.