The National Health Authority of India is set to release a hospital management information system for private clinics and small health facilities in the country.

Based on a press release, the beta version of the software will have the following features:

• ABDM (Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) compliance: allows doctors to generate and fetch Ayushman Bharat Health Account for patients

• Facility management: manage calendar, appointments, and patient details in a single window

• Digital services: view patients' previous health records and prescriptions and take video consultations 

• e-prescription services: generate and share digital standardised prescriptions with options to modify the prescription layout

WHY IT MATTERS

The NHA, which is implementing the ABDM, said the new HMIS solution will help speed up the digital transformation of small clinics. It will also boost the presence of healthcare providers in the country.

The agency will be conducting a virtual workshop for the HMIS this week, where it will also receive feedback from healthcare providers for improvements.  

THE LARGER TREND

In 2021, the government of Delhi announced a project to set up a cloud-based hospital information management system to connect all the public hospitals across the state. The system, which development was tasked to NEC Corporation India, was expected to be delivered last year. 

Meanwhile, the All India Institute Of Medical Science in New Delhi is working to fully implement the e-hospital HMIS developed by the National Informatics Centre this year.