Ask anyone running a nursing home in a district town what happens when the broadband dies for two hours on a Tuesday afternoon. If their software is cloud-based, the answer is that the counter stops. No registration, no bill, no discharge. The queue does not stop, though, so someone pulls out a receipt book and the evening is spent typing it all back in.
Adhrit HMS Solo is built the other way round. It installs on the computer at your
reception desk and runs there. The database is a file on that machine, in
C:\ProgramData\HMS. Unplug the network cable and everything still works —
new patients, OPD bills, admissions, lab entries, discharge summaries, the day's
collection report.
What runs on the local machine
- Patient registration with automatic UHID numbering
- OPD consultation billing and printed receipts
- IPD admissions, ward and bed tracking, discharge bills
- Lab test billing and reports
- Cashbook and daily collection reports
- Doctor and service masters, with no cap on how many you add
The honest trade-off
Running locally is not free of downsides and it would be daft to pretend otherwise. Your data lives on one computer, so backups genuinely matter — the software takes them, but somebody has to put them somewhere safe. There is no logging in from home to check the day's figures. And if that PC dies before you have taken a backup, the records die with it.
What you get in return is that nobody else holds your patients' records, there is no monthly bill that grows as you add staff, and an outage at your internet provider is not an outage at your hospital. For a single-location clinic or a small nursing home, that is usually the better side of the deal. If you have three branches that need to see the same data live, it honestly is not — you want a cloud product, and we would tell you so.
Where it came from
This is not a product built to a spec by people who have never stood at a reception counter. It was written for one real hospital, has been running there on live patient data through every ordinary mess a working day produces, and has been cleaned up and de-branded so another hospital can use it. The bits that look plain are plain because that is what worked at the counter.
Questions we get asked
Does anything at all need the internet?
Only two things: buying or renewing a licence, and the optional Google Drive backup. Everything a hospital does hour to hour — registration, billing, admissions, lab, reports, printing — runs with the cable unplugged.
What if I want my data somewhere other than this PC?
Take a backup onto a pen drive whenever you like; the file is yours. An automatic nightly backup to your own Google Drive account is being added as an option.
Is it a one-time purchase?
No, it is an annual licence at ₹11,999, with cheaper multi-year terms. When a licence lapses the software stops taking new entries but never stops you reading, printing or exporting the records you already have.