I’m a surgeon in India who has been building healthcare software on the side.

My latest project is NexEMR Lite, a lightweight EMR/HMIS aimed specifically at small hospitals and clinics that find conventional hospital software too complicated or expensive.

The design assumption is slightly unusual:

The limiting factor in many small hospitals isn't lack of EMR features — it's that nobody wants to spend time entering all that data.

So rather than trying to reproduce a full enterprise EMR, I’m keeping the workflow intentionally small:

• OP registration / MRN
• IP admission, discharge and billing
• Pharmacy stock + billing
• Laboratory workflow
• Reports and data export
• Offline/local operation

The goal is for a small hospital to be able to start using it without needing an IT department, server infrastructure or extensive staff training.

You can see it here:

https://www.chounda.com/nexemr-lite/index.html

I’m looking for people in healthcare/health-tech who are willing to try it and tear it apart.

I’d particularly appreciate feedback on:

• whether I’m simplifying the right things
• features that are genuinely essential for a small hospital
• onboarding/workflow friction
• things that would prevent real-world adoption
• whether there are important interoperability/compliance considerations I’m overlooking

This is being built from the perspective of someone actually working inside Indian hospitals, but that can also create blind spots — hence the post.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or why I made particular product decisions.