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Essays and field notes that frame the CARE platform as open healthcare infrastructure.
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Plugs V3 and the extensible future of CARE
May 2026 rebuilt CARE's plugin architecture, improved clinical documentation speed, expanded HMIS reporting, strengthened inventory and billing workflows, and matured analytics across palliative deployments.
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.
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.
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.
Smarter dashboards, queues, and clinical forms in CARE
April 2026 focused on clinical extensibility, FHIRPath form logic, mobile queue boards, payment traceability, HMIS dashboards, and continued scale for the Kerala Palliative Care Grid.
Analytics and governance for the next phase of CARE
March 2026 advanced CARE through scan-based check-in, LOINC mapping, hospital dashboards, palliative governance structures, and independent operation at Sree Sudheendra.
From go-live support to stable hospital operations
February 2026 moved CARE HMIS into a stable post go-live phase, with independent hospital usage, dashboards, billing auditability, templates, pharmacy improvements, and Kerala CARE governance enhancements.
CARE HMIS go-live at Sree Sudheendra Hospital
January 2026 marked the full CARE HMIS go-live at Sree Sudheendra Medical Mission Hospital, including on-premise infrastructure, data migration, digital token systems, and inpatient workflow digitization.
One million encounters and paperless governance
December 2025 crossed a major Kerala CARE scale milestone, launched CARE at Pallium India, moved Sudheendra HMIS toward go-live, and built dashboards for paperless governance.
Dashboards, testing discipline, and new CARE deployments
November 2025 strengthened CARE through facility dashboards, Playwright testing, billing safeguards, new palliative care deployments, and deeper readiness at Sudheendra Hospital.
Refining CARE HMIS across hospital departments
October 2025 expanded CARE HMIS across pediatric OP, inpatient workflows, pharmacy, lab, inventory, accounting, and the Kerala Palliative Care Grid's volunteer and dashboard capabilities.
CARE HMIS goes live in a multi-specialty hospital pilot
September 2025 marked the launch of the CARE HMIS pilot at Sree Sudheendra Medical Mission Hospital, with reception, ENT, casualty, pharmacy, lab, billing, and scheduling workflows in live use.
Token management and hospital workflow groundwork
August 2025 introduced token management, ERP integration planning, faster encounters, stronger scheduling, and the operational groundwork for the Sudheendra HMIS pilot.
Patient accounts and the next layer of CARE HMIS
July 2025 added patient accounts, configurable identifiers, richer encounter views, appointment search, and the groundwork for deploying CARE HMIS in a real hospital environment.
Pharmacy workflows and the scale of Kerala CARE
June 2025 delivered a FHIR-aligned pharmacy module, questionnaire builder upgrades, rapid registration, a public launch milestone, and deep adoption across the Kerala Palliative Care Grid.
Building the FHIR-aligned lab module for CARE
May 2025 advanced CARE HMIS with a FHIR-aligned lab module, Arike's CARE 3.0 migration, palliative care scale-out, and deeper hospital workflow discovery.
Stabilizing CARE after statewide launch
April 2025 was about turning launch momentum into daily use, with 80,000 new registrations, home-based care workflows, RBAC, 2FA, dynamic forms, and CARE 3.0 upgrades.
Launching the Kerala Palliative Care Grid
March 2025 marked the statewide launch of the Kerala Palliative Care Grid, followed by district training, operational handover, Malayalam localization, and early digital care delivery.
Preparing CARE for statewide palliative care rollout
February 2025 focused on scaling the palliative care pilots, Malayalam support, security certification, CARE 3.0 architecture, and new HMIS modules for real-world use.
Field pilots for the Kerala Palliative Care Grid
January 2025 moved CARE from planning to field use, with pilots in Ayyampuzha and Calicut, hands-on nurse training, early home visit records, and HMIS discovery work.
Building CARE as open healthcare infrastructure
The first phase of the CARE expansion focused on the foundations: technical stewardship, FHIR and SNOMED CT alignment, palliative care workflows, and the early HMIS roadmap.