Software Development for Healthcare

Healthcare in India is mostly small and private. A single-doctor clinic on a Rajkot main road, a 30-bed nursing home in Gondal or Jamnagar, a diagnostic lab with three collection centres, a pharmacy chain with five counters. In most of them the OPD register is a physical book, the prescription is handwritten, the bill comes from a generic billing tool, and lab reports go out as WhatsApp photos. The doctor remembers the patient. The system does not.

Larger hospitals in Ahmedabad, Surat, Mumbai and Hyderabad already run hospital software, but it was often bought for billing and never reached the ward, the lab or the follow-up desk. Patients still call the front desk to ask whether a report is ready.

Overseas the picture differs. Clinics in the UAE, the UK and North America usually have a mandated or insurer-driven electronic record already, and what they want from us is the layer around it: a patient booking app, reminders, a billing and insurance reconciliation tool, or a portal for a chain of physiotherapy or dental centres.

Software helps in a specific order. Registration and OPD queue first, so a returning patient is found in seconds. Then billing with insurance and TPA rules, so cashless claims stop leaking. Then the electronic record, lab and pharmacy, so a report is in the file the moment it is signed. Follow-up reminders come last and bring patients back without a phone call.

A hospital or clinic needs a clinical core and a small set of administrative systems that talk to it.

• The hospital management system is the core: registration, OPD and IPD, electronic medical records, doctor schedules, billing with TPA and insurance, lab and radiology reporting, pharmacy stock and dispensing, and discharge summaries. For a clinic the same product runs in a lighter configuration.
• HRMS and payroll handles the part hospitals struggle with most: nurses and duty doctors on rotating shifts, night allowances, consultant revenue-share payouts, PF and ESI for housekeeping and security staff.
• Attendance management with biometric devices at ward and lab entrances feeds those shift rosters automatically.
• Accounting and GST billing covers pharmacy GST, receivables from TPAs and corporate clients, and books your CA can work from directly.
• A patient app for appointments, reports and prescriptions, and an AI chatbot on WhatsApp for slot booking and report status, remove most of the calls that tie up the front desk.

Clinics and labs usually need only the HMS and the chatbot. Nursing homes add payroll and attendance once they cross 40 staff. Multi-location chains add the patient app and central reporting.

Hospital and clinic software from JK Tech Hub is a one-time build with a support contract, not a per-bed or per-doctor licence, and your patient data stays on a server in your name.

• A clinic or single-doctor system (registration, OPD, EMR, billing, reminders) starts at ₹1,50,000.
• A 20 to 100 bed hospital with IPD, lab, pharmacy and TPA billing usually lands around ₹4,00,000.
• Multi-location chains, diagnostic networks and hospitals with 100-plus beds run to ₹10,00,000 and above.
• Payroll and attendance for staff start at ₹80,000 and ₹50,000 respectively. A patient app is scoped separately once the HMS is live.

Delivery is staged so the hospital never stops. Registration, OPD and billing go live first, typically within eight to ten weeks, and run alongside the paper register for two to four weeks. IPD, lab and pharmacy follow once the front desk is confident. Doctors get a short one-to-one session rather than a classroom, because that is the only training that sticks.

For hospitals and clinics in Rajkot, Saurashtra, Ahmedabad, Surat and the rest of Gujarat, our team is on site for discovery, go-live and staff training. Hospitals elsewhere in India are delivered remotely with a visit at go-live. Clinics and healthcare groups overseas work with us through our international engagement model, with data hosted in your region where the law requires it.