Bed management
Track beds, locations, admissions, discharge states, and live availability across hospital hierarchies.
100+
hospitals
5
deployment states
FHIR R5
standards-first core
MIT
open-source licence
Hospital Information System
HIS depth with open-source ownership.
CARE HMIS is built for hospitals that need more than a digital file. It combines EMR, HMIS, hospital operations, revenue cycle workflows, interoperability, and AI-ready clinical data in one reusable open platform.
HIS layer
Clinical record
Patients, encounters, notes, diagnoses, orders, observations, medications, care plans, and discharge summaries.
HIS layer
Hospital operations
Appointments, queues, beds, wards, departments, staff roles, stock movement, reports, and dashboards.
HIS layer
Revenue cycle
Charge capture, invoices, payments, scheme coverage, claims direction, reconciliation, and accounting integration.
HIS layer
Interoperability layer
FHIR-aligned APIs, terminology bindings, ABDM workflows, device integrations, and plugin-based extensions.
The real problem
Software exists. A connected workflow does not.
The goal is not electronic records. It is a hospital that can coordinate care, measure quality, manage resources, and safely use assistive AI.
Discrete fragments
Registration, labs, medications, discharge, and billing live as separate events instead of one care story.
Disconnected workflows
Orders, results, prescriptions, stock, and dispensing move through silos with no single operational flow.
Digital paper
Forms were digitized without redesigning the work around them, so software becomes one more burden.
Lost revenue
Unbilled services, missed charges, and manual invoicing leave money on the table every day.
Three flows at once
Records become workflows. Workflows become operations.
CARE HMIS treats a hospital as a living system. Every patient event, clinical decision, and financial transaction can move through one connected operating layer.
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Patient flow
Registration, appointments, OPD, emergency, IPD, ICU, discharge, and follow-up.
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Information flow
Encounters, orders, results, records, decisions, and longitudinal clinical context.
03
Revenue flow
Charges, invoices, scheme coverage, payments, and reconciliation as care is delivered.
Every encounter
One platform for every care setting.
CARE supports the full patient journey, while keeping clinical documentation consistent across hospitals, clinics, homes, and virtual visits.
Outpatient
Clinical visits linked to the patient record.
Emergency
Priority care and emergency workflows.
Inpatient
Admissions, rounds, orders, notes, and discharge.
Observation
Short-stay monitoring with continuity.
Home health
Mobile documentation and care plans.
Virtual care
Remote consultation with structured records.
Core modules
The workflows a hospital expects, built on one core.
Modules are not isolated applications. They share patients, encounters, orders, observations, roles, reports, and audit trails.
Clinical data capture
Structured forms, symptoms, conditions, orders, medication requests, and observations.
Scheduling
Appointment calendars, public facility pages, doctor availability, and open slots.
Queues
Doctor, department, pharmacy, billing, and custom service queues for high-volume settings.
EMR form builder
Configurable department forms mapped to interoperable clinical resources.
Bed management
Live locations, beds, admission status, hierarchy, and availability.
Administrative hierarchy
Facility, district, state, program, and national structures with data segregation.
RBAC and audit
Granular role-based access control for doctors, nurses, admins, and health workers.
Dynamic reports
Treatment summaries, discharge summaries, dashboards, and custom operational reports.
Workflows in motion
See the hospital OS as real product workflows.
These are not static module names. CARE HMIS supports live workflows across bed management, clinical drawings, and dynamic reporting on the same shared patient and facility data layer.
Clinical drawings
Capture drawings, body maps, annotations, and visual clinical context directly in the patient record.
Dynamic reports
Generate operational and clinical reports from shared encounters, forms, orders, and care activity.
HIS coverage
One operating layer across hospital departments.
CARE HMIS gives hospitals a shared information system for clinical, administrative, operational, and financial work. Each department can keep its workflow while contributing to one longitudinal record.
Front desk
Registration, demographics, patient search, appointments, queues, and visit creation.
OPD and clinics
Consultations, notes, prescriptions, investigations, follow-up, referrals, and summaries.
Emergency
Rapid registration, triage direction, emergency encounters, orders, observation, and handover.
Inpatient wards
Admissions, bed allocation, rounds, nursing updates, orders, discharge, and transfers.
ICU and critical care
TeleICU extension, vitals/device direction, remote review, video, and escalation workflows.
Laboratory
Lab orders, specimen tracking direction, results, diagnostic reports, and LOINC/UCUM alignment.
Pharmacy
Prescriptions, dispensing, substitutions, stock alerts, procurement, inventory, and audit trails.
Billing and accounts
Service charges, invoices, payments, insurance/scheme support, and reconciliation workflows.
Administration
Facilities, departments, users, roles, access control, audit logs, reports, and operational analytics.
Hospital operations
The back office is clinical infrastructure.
Labs, pharmacy, stock, billing, and accounting are not downstream admin tasks. They are part of the same clinical timeline.
Lab and diagnostics / LMIS
Clinicians order tests, labs track samples, results attach to the record, and observations use standard codes and units.
Pharmacy and inventory
Prescriptions flow into dispensing, substitutions, stock movement, alerts, procurement, and supply chain workflows.
Billing and accounting
Cash, insurance, government schemes, invoices, payment capture, and reconciliation connect back to care activity.
Standards and architecture
Built for exchange, analytics, and assistive AI.
CARE HMIS is standards-first, API-first, modular, cloud agnostic, mobile-first, and designed to be extended without forking the core.
FHIR R5
clinical resources and APIs
SNOMED CT
clinical terminology
LOINC
labs and observations
UCUM
units of measure
ICD-10
classification support
BYOT
bring your own terminology
Apps and AI
Extend the hospital OS without breaking the core.
CARE Apps add national rails, TeleICU, AI documentation, devices, claims, token display, messaging, and analytics through a plugin layer. AI drafts. Humans decide. CARE records.
ABDM
M1, M2, M3 and identity workflows through plugins.
TeleICU
Camera, vitals, remote review, and critical care extension.
Care Scribe
Multilingual voice fill and assistive documentation.
Token display
Queue and token screens for TVs and public counters.
Labs and devices
Orders, results, PACS, and bedside integrations.
Claims and messaging
HCX, reminders, analytics, and patient communication.
Responsible AI
Voice fill, document understanding, record summaries, discharge drafts, and decision support sit on top of structured clinical data with human review.
Implementation model
A serious HIS rollout is product, process, and governance.
CARE HMIS deployments can start with a focused hospital workflow and expand into a complete Hospital Information System. The same open core supports phased adoption, local configuration, partner-led implementation, and long-term release upgrades.
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Master data
Facilities, departments, rooms, beds, services, staff, user roles, tariffs, and drug catalogues.
02
Workflow mapping
OPD, emergency, IPD, pharmacy, lab, billing, and discharge flows aligned to local practice.
03
Forms and terminology
Configurable EMR forms, FHIR resources, ValueSets, SNOMED CT, LOINC, UCUM, and ICD-10.
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Integrations
ABDM, devices, lab systems, accounting tools, messaging, analytics, payments, and partner plugins.
05
Security model
Role-based access, audit trails, hosting choices, data ownership, backup, and operational controls.
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Adoption plan
Training, phased rollout, support desk, reporting cadence, feedback loops, and release upgrades.
Deployment proof
CARE HMIS 3.0 is live across multiple deployments.
CARE HMIS 3.0 is now live across deployments in Kerala, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Assam, and Manipur, supporting 100+ hospitals through a reusable open-core model.
Kerala
live deployment
Karnataka
live deployment
Jharkhand
live deployment
Assam
live deployment
Manipur
live deployment
100+
hospitals
HIS FAQ
What hospitals usually ask before evaluating CARE HMIS.
These answers are written for teams comparing open-source HIS, HMIS, EMR, and hospital management software options.
What is CARE HMIS?
CARE HMIS is an open-source Hospital Information System and Hospital Management Information System built around CARE Core. It connects clinical records, hospital operations, billing, reporting, integrations, and AI-ready workflows on one standards-based platform.
Is CARE HMIS an EMR or a full HIS?
CARE HMIS includes EMR capabilities, but it is broader than an electronic medical record. It supports patient registration, OPD, emergency, inpatient care, labs, pharmacy, inventory, billing, reporting, access control, integrations, and deployment workflows.
Can CARE HMIS be self-hosted?
Yes. CARE is designed for self-hosted, cloud, hybrid, and on-premise deployment models, so hospitals and governments can own their infrastructure and avoid software licence lock-in.
Which hospital departments can CARE HMIS support?
CARE HMIS can support front desk, OPD, emergency, inpatient wards, ICU and TeleICU workflows, laboratory, pharmacy, inventory, billing, administration, analytics, and patient-facing workflows.
How does CARE HMIS support interoperability?
CARE HMIS is standards-first, with FHIR R5-aligned resources, open APIs, terminology support for SNOMED CT, LOINC, UCUM and ICD-10, and plugin-based integrations for national rails, devices, labs, claims, messaging, and analytics.
How is AI used in CARE HMIS?
AI is assistive and human-in-the-loop. CARE HMIS can support voice fill, documentation drafts, document understanding, summaries, and decision-support workflows on top of structured clinical data and audit-aware processes.
Intelligent hospitals need connected workflows first.
CARE HMIS gives hospitals the shared operating layer for clinical work, operations, revenue, analytics, and carefully governed AI.