Public proof
Open infrastructure, supported by real institutions and verifiable public-good signals.
Verified DPG
CARE is listed in the Digital Public Goods registry.
MIT licensed
Reusable by governments, hospitals, NGOs, and partners.
FHIR-native
Built around standards, terminology, and open APIs.
Supported by
Foundation layer
The institution around the healthcare OS.
Healthcare systems do not adopt source code alone. They need governance, releases, documentation, security, and an ecosystem that keeps the shared core dependable over years.
Core platform
Stable primitives, APIs, forms, access control, audit trails, reports, and extensibility.
Standards
FHIR-aligned modeling, terminology bindings, ABDM patterns, and implementation guides.
Quality and security
Release discipline, vulnerability handling, testing expectations, and documentation quality.
Ecosystem
Developer community, clinical review, implementation partners, and public-good funding paths.
AI readiness
Assistive, human-reviewed documentation and summarization on structured clinical data.
CARE is the product proof
One open core. Many real workflows.
CARE Core provides the common primitives. CARE Apps extend the platform for national rails, HMIS, TeleICU, palliative care, AI documentation, LMIS, pharmacy, billing, and analytics.
Longitudinal patient records
OP, IP, emergency, observation, home visits
Clinical notes, forms, orders, prescriptions
Labs, pharmacy, inventory, radiology, billing
Tasks, referrals, care plans, dashboards
ABDM, TeleICU, AI documentation, open APIs
Solutions
Deployable workflows on the healthcare OS.
CARE Core is the shared foundation. Solutions package that core into practical workflows for hospitals, critical care, home care, clinics, public health programs, and specialized field operations.
CARE HMIS
Hospital management workflows for registration, encounters, labs, pharmacy, billing, reports, and patient portal.
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TeleICU
Hub-and-spoke critical care workflows with remote rounds, escalation, devices, and video context.
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Palliative Care Grid
Home-based care coordination, longitudinal records, tasks, referrals, follow-up, and field workflows.
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Care Clinics
Primary care and outpatient workflows for scheduling, prescriptions, investigations, and continuity.
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Care Janwar
Animal health workflows built on the same open-core pattern for facilities and field programs.
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Architecture
AI-ready because the data layer is structured first.
CARE is designed around configurable forms, FHIR-aligned resources, terminology bindings, open APIs, audit trails, and role-based access. AI is framed as assistive and human-reviewed because clinical accountability cannot be automated away.
FHIR R5
SNOMED CT
LOINC
UCUM
ICD-10
ABDM
Why this can scale
A nonprofit with product leverage.
The best nonprofit technology organizations compound: each implementation makes the infrastructure better, each partner expands distribution, and each funded release makes future adoption cheaper.
Software leverage
Each reusable module, form, and integration reduces the cost of the next public health deployment.
Open distribution
Governments, hospitals, implementers, clinicians, and developers can adopt without vendor permission.
Data foundation for AI
Assistive AI becomes safer when it sits on structured, interoperable, auditable health data.
Governance moat
The foundation turns open source into infrastructure institutions can trust for long-term operations.
GitHub Story
Open-source collaboration, shown through the work.
The GitHub story is useful proof because it shows OHC as a real contributor network: clinicians, engineers, and institutions building healthcare infrastructure in the open.
Evidence
Field proof, handled with discipline.
OHC has public proof across the DPG registry, open-source repositories, standards architecture, and program deployments. The site keeps metrics dated and program-specific so funders, governments, and media see disciplined claims instead of impact theater.
DPG
Externally listed
MIT
Reusable by default
Open APIs
Built for integration
Community Signals
Recognition from people who understand infrastructure.
I had a chance to meet with the Open Healthcare Network, its fantastic to see what they are doing.
Satya Nadella
CEO, Microsoft
One of the most active Open source contributor communities in India
Srikanth Nadhamuni
Founder CTO Aadhaar
Great work by@10BedICU in putting 200+ tele-ICUs in remote districts in India.
Vinod Khosla
Founder, Khosla Ventures
The Open Healthcare Network in India is a powerful example of people coming together to advance human progress – solving the problems that matter.
Kyle Daigle
COO, GitHub
With CARE, we hope every healthcare provider, whether government or private, across the world has access to the best and most relevant technology to scale delivery and improve health outcomes at the lowest cost.
Sandeep Singhal
Board Member, ACT Grants
What a journey it has been for CARE from a COVID dashboard fully run by volunteers for a district in Kerala to this... phew!!! In a symbolic view, for me this feels almost like an unicorn valuation equivalent for social sector
Sreevas Sahasranam
University of Glasgow
One of the coolest non-profits operating in the healthcare space just turned 4 🐣 - they bring advanced ICU care to places in rural India. Meeting and working with the team has been a major highlight of the past couple months :)
Kai Chen
OpenAI
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Blog
Notes for builders of public-good health infrastructure.
May 27, 2026
Why open healthcare infrastructure needs a foundation
Code is necessary, but not sufficient. Health systems need stewardship, release discipline, documentation, security, and an ecosystem that can outlast any one deployment.
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May 20, 2026
AI-ready, not AI-hyped
Assistive AI in healthcare should sit on structured, interoperable data and human-reviewed workflows. The foundation layer matters before the model layer.
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May 13, 2026
CARE Core as an operating layer for healthcare workflows
CARE Core provides reusable primitives for patient records, encounters, orders, observations, tasks, care plans, reports, access control, audit trails, and APIs.
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Who should work with OHC
One foundation, multiple high-leverage paths.
Governments can deploy, funders can support, implementation partners can localize, developers can contribute, and clinicians can shape workflows.
Governments
Own, adapt, and scale health infrastructure locally.
Funders
Back the shared core, not one-off software delivery.
Hospitals
Deploy practical HMIS and EMR workflows without license lock-in.
Implementation partners
Localize CARE and contribute improvements back.
Developers
Build open-source healthcare infrastructure used in the field.
Clinicians
Shape workflows, forms, safety, and AI documentation behavior.
Build the open healthcare commons.
Help OHC Foundation maintain the shared core, governance, security, documentation, and ecosystem that let health systems deploy modern software without vendor lock-in.