Notes on the future of healthcare.
Digitization, compliance, and lessons from building the connected platform for healthcare.
ABDM in 2026: what a small clinic actually has to do
M1, M2, M3, HFR, HPR — the acronyms hide a short list of real tasks. Most of them belong to your software vendor, not to you.
- 4 min readDPDP
The DPDP deadline is May 2027. What clinics need before then.
The DPDP Rules were notified in November 2025 with an eighteen-month runway. Health data gets the strictest treatment, and small clinics are not exempt.
- 3 min readABDM
ABHA at the front desk: making it a 30-second step
The technical part of ABHA is solved. Adoption fails at the registration counter, for reasons that have nothing to do with technology.
- 3 min readCompliance
Teleconsultation rules every Indian clinic should know
India's Telemedicine Practice Guidelines have been in force since March 2020. The rules on who may consult, and what may be prescribed, are stricter than most clinics assume.
- 4 min readCompliance
Are digital prescriptions legal in India?
Yes — but validity comes from what the prescription contains, not from the medium it travels in. The details most clinic templates get wrong.
- 4 min readEMR
Moving a clinic off paper registers without losing a week
The migration that fails is the one that tries to digitise ten years of history first. Start at the front desk and let the archive stay on paper.
- 4 min readClinics
What clinic software should actually cost
Licence fees are the small part. The costs that decide whether software is affordable are implementation, training, and what it takes to leave.
- 3 min readOperations
No-shows are a scheduling problem, not a patient problem
Most clinics respond to no-shows by overbooking. That treats the symptom and makes the waiting room worse. Here is the sequence that actually works.
- 4 min readOperations
Pharmacy stock control for clinics that aren't pharmacies
An in-house dispensary has a pharmacy's legal obligations and none of a pharmacy's systems. Expiry and the H1 register are where it usually breaks.
Building the platform healthcare runs on
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