Glossary
HMIS and hospital operations glossary
The terms hospital owners, administrators and ER teams in India hear most, defined in plain language.
- HMIS
- Hospital Management Information System: software that runs a hospital's day-to-day operations, such as registration, billing, wards, pharmacy and reporting.
- UHID
- Unique Health Identification number: the ID a hospital assigns so one patient's visits, bills and records stay linked.
- OPD
- Outpatient department: patients who are seen and leave the same day without admission.
- IPD
- Inpatient department: patients admitted to a bed, from admission to discharge.
- ADT
- Admission, discharge and transfer: the workflow that tracks where an admitted patient is and moves them through the hospital.
- Charge capture
- Recording every billable service, medicine and consumable against the patient so it appears on the final bill.
- Discharge clearance
- The sign-offs (clinical, nursing, pharmacy, billing and insurance) needed before a patient can leave.
- Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY
- India's government health assurance scheme, providing cover of up to ₹5 lakh per family per year for hospitalisation at empanelled hospitals.
- TPA
- Third-party administrator: a company that processes health-insurance claims between insurers and hospitals.
- ABDM
- Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission: the national programme building India's digital health infrastructure, including the ABHA health ID.
- NABH
- National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers: India's hospital quality accreditation body.
- DPDP Act
- Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023: India's law on how personal data, including health data, is collected and processed.
- ACLS ambulance
- An ambulance equipped and staffed for Advanced Cardiac Life Support, used for critical patients.
- Pre-arrival handoff
- Information an ambulance crew sends to the receiving emergency department before arrival, so the right team is ready at the door.
See these workflows in CarediiumX HMIS.
We will show how registration, billing, discharge and claims connect in one system.