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Hospital management hospital management system

A hospital management system runs registration, appointments, doctor notes, admissions, billing, pharmacy and lab in one record per patient. It has to be quick at a busy reception, careful with patient data, and able to handle cash, insurance, TPA and government scheme patients in the same bill.

Medical staff member working at a hospital reception desk

Modules

Modules we build into your Hospital management

Start with the modules that matter most and add the rest in later releases.

Registration and appointments
Patient registration with ABHA ID linking, token queues, doctor schedules and booking by phone, web or WhatsApp.
OPD and EMR
Consultation notes, vitals, diagnoses with ICD-10 codes, e-prescriptions and follow-up reminders.
IPD and nursing
Admissions, bed management, nursing charts, medication administration records, OT scheduling and discharge summaries.
Billing and insurance
Package and itemised billing, deposits, TPA pre-authorisation and claims, and PM-JAY or state scheme cases.
Pharmacy and stores
Batch and expiry tracking, Schedule H and H1 registers, ward indents and consumption against the patient bill.
Laboratory and radiology
Sample collection with barcodes, analyser interfacing, report approval, and PACS links for imaging.
MIS and quality
Bed occupancy, revenue by department, average length of stay and the indicators NABH asks hospitals to track.

AI built in

Where AI saves time in this system

  • Clinical note drafting

    Turns a doctor's dictation into structured notes and a draft prescription the doctor checks and signs.

  • Discharge summaries

    Drafts the discharge summary from the inpatient record for the treating doctor to review.

  • Claim checks

    Checks insurance and TPA claim files for missing documents and coding mistakes before submission.

  • Patient assistant

    Answers appointment, report and bill questions on WhatsApp in local languages, never offering medical advice.

Hospital operations
Illustrative
OPD visits today
642
Bed occupancy
83%
Average length of stay
3.6 days
Pending TPA claims
₹48 L

Daily admissions

Daily admissions, point 1: 38Daily admissions, point 2: 42Daily admissions, point 3: 35Daily admissions, point 4: 47Daily admissions, point 5: 44Daily admissions, point 6: 51Daily admissions, point 7: 39Daily admissions, point 8: 46Daily admissions, point 9: 49Daily admissions, point 10: 53Daily admissions, point 11: 45

Bed occupancy by ward (%)

  • General91
  • ICU86
  • Maternity72
  • Paediatrics64
  • Private rooms78

Effort and cost

USD 1,500 to 3,000

INR 1,49,250 to 2,98,500, plus taxes, for a typical first release

Effort
750 to 1,500 hours
Timeline
First release in 8 to 12 weeks, usually OPD and billing first, then IPD, pharmacy and lab

At the 2good.dev rate of USD 2 or INR 199 per hour, billed against outputs you accept. Your own estimate depends on modules, integrations and data migration.

Build, buy or both

Small clinics and nursing homes are well served by established Indian products such as Practo Ray, KareXpert, Insta by Practo or eHospital, and should not pay for a custom build. Larger hospitals often buy a mature HMS and still find gaps. Custom pays off for hospital chains with their own workflows across sites, specialty centres (IVF, dialysis, oncology, eye care) where generic EMRs fit poorly, and for groups that want the HMS, patient app and analytics on one data model they control. We often build around an existing HMS: patient apps, ABDM integration, insurance desks or dashboards.

Connects with

  • ABDM gateway
  • Lab analysers (HL7)
  • PACS (DICOM)
  • TPA portals
  • Tally
  • Razorpay
  • WhatsApp Business
  • Biometric attendance

Industries

Sectors that use Hospital management this way

Questions

Hospital management: common questions

Is it ABDM compliant?

We build to the ABDM specifications for ABHA creation and linking, health record sharing with consent, and the facility and professional registries. Certification for your instance is done through the NHA sandbox and approval process.

How is patient data protected?

Role-based access, audit logs on every record view, encryption, and consent records that support your duties under the DPDP Act. Data can be hosted in Indian data centres.

Can it connect to our lab machines?

Most analysers support HL7 or ASTM interfaces. We connect them so results flow into the report without retyping.

Talk to us

Planning your Hospital management?

Tell us what you use today and what is not working. We will say whether to extend it or build.

Timeline

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