Articles on EMR.
Everything we've written about EMR — practical notes for Indian clinics from the team building Qlinikit.
How long must an Indian clinic keep medical records?
Three years is the number everyone quotes. It comes from a 2002 regulation, it covers only indoor patients, and it is the wrong number to plan around.
- 5 min readOperations
The referral you never hear back about
Most clinic referrals are one-way. Closing the loop costs nothing, prevents the errors nobody audits, and is the cheapest repeat business a practice has.
- 4 min readPatients
How to get a copy of your medical records
Hospitals often say records are theirs. The file is — the information is yours, and after discharge you should have copies within 72 hours.
- 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 readPatients
The family health file you will be glad you kept
One page per person, kept current, answers the questions an emergency department asks in the hour when nobody can remember the answers.
- 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 readPatients
Reading your prescription: the abbreviations and what to check
OD, BD, TDS, HS, SOS. Five abbreviations cover most Indian prescriptions — and knowing them catches the errors that reach the patient.
- 4 min readClinics
Switching clinic software without losing your data
Ask what you can get out before you decide what to put in. Export formats, a fortnight of parallel running, and the clause most clinics never negotiate.
- 4 min readOperations
Cutting lab turnaround time in a small clinic
Most of the delay between a test being ordered and a result being read is not in the lab. It is in the handoffs on either side of it.
Building the platform healthcare runs on
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