PATNA, Feb. 5 -- The Bihar government has set February as the deadline for all government doctors to complete registration on the Health Professional Registry (HPR) dashboard under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), officials said on Thursday.

The HPR will enable doctors to issue digital prescriptions, a key step towards the government's push for paperless healthcare delivery. The initiative aims to streamline consultations, diagnostic investigations and free drug dispensing in outpatient departments (OPDs) of government health facilities, from district hospitals down to health sub-centres.

Officials said compliance remained uneven. Of the 12,896 government doctors in the state, only about 66% have completed HPR registration so...