OPEN HEALTHCARE NETWORK FOUNDATION

What OPEN HEALTHCARE NETWORK FOUNDATION does

Open Healthcare Network Foundation (OHC Foundation) is an India-registered Section 8 not-for-profit company incorporated in September 2025 (CIN: U88100KL2025NPL098818, headquartered in Kochi, Kerala) that stewards CARE, an open-source, MIT-licensed, FHIR R5-aligned healthcare platform. The foundation evolved from volunteer-led COVID-response work and now operates with a publicly disclosed two-person leadership team (CEO Bodhish Thomas, CTO Vignesh Hari) backed by a board that includes Srikanth Nadhamuni (Chairman, 10BedICU; Founding CTO of Aadhaar) and Sandeep Singhal (ACT Grants). Its core technology stack is CARE Core v3.0.0 — Django/DRF/Celery on PostgreSQL/Redis with object storage, supporting SNOMED CT, LOINC, UCUM, ICD-10, ABDM standards and a Plugs V3 hot-reloading plugin architecture. On top of this core it packages deployable solutions: CARE HMIS (hospital management), TeleICU (hub-and-spoke critical care with ONVIF device integration, 200+ remote ICU units deployed via 10BedICU), Palliative Care Grid (live in Kerala with 3.26 lakh registered patients across 1,365 government facilities and 1,105 NGOs/CBOs), Care Clinics (primary care), Care Janwar (animal health), and the recently launched CARE AI layer (Care Scribe, Voice Scribe, Vision, Doctor Summary, Care Ask, differential diagnosis, care plans, drug safety, discharge and handover tools). The foundation makes money only through grants, sponsorships, and memberships (Visionary Sponsor, Foundation Member, Individual Sponsor tiers); software itself is free under MIT, so the economic engine is ecosystem stewardship and implementation-partner deployment services rather than licensing. Go-to-market is community-led (GitHub, Slack, school.ohc.network) combined with channel partners (implementation SIs who must contribute improvements back) and direct government/hospital engagement — most visibly NHM Kerala, Sree Sudheendra Medical Mission Hospital, and Pallium India. Verified Digital Public Goods registry listing, MIT licensing, FHIR-native design, and ABDM alignment are positioned as the regulatory and standards moat, while the foundation's nonprofit structure is intended to function as a neutral, long-term institutional home for healthcare digital public infrastructure rather than a venture-backed product.

Name

OPEN HEALTHCARE NETWORK FOUNDATION

Legal name

Open Healthcare Network Foundation

Website

https://ohc.network/

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Open Healthcare Network Foundation is an India-registered Section 8 nonprofit that stewards CARE, an MIT-licensed, FHIR R5-aligned open-source healthcare platform deployed by governments, hospitals, NGOs, and implementation partners across palliative care, HMIS, TeleICU, and primary care.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Open-Source Healthcare Platform / Health Information Systems

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Health & Medical Research Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAL)

Keywords

• Open-source healthcare platform
• Hospital management information system
• Digital public goods
• FHIR health interoperability
• Clinical AI documentation

Headquarters

HQ city

Ernakulam

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Foundation Support (Grants, Sponsorships, Memberships): For grants, sponsorships, memberships, and institutional support. Visionary Sponsor tier for major philanthropic support, Foundation Member tier for companies and ecosystem organizations, and Individual Sponsor tier for personal donors.
2. Implementation Partner Ecosystem: Commercial opportunity for implementation partners to deploy, localize, and extend CARE. Foundation benefits from ecosystem growth and sustainability.
3. Zero Software Licensing Revenue: MIT license means no ongoing licensing costs or vendor lock-in. Zero license fees for governments, hospitals, NGOs, and partners.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Open Healthcare Network Foundation stewards CARE Core, a FHIR R5-aligned, MIT-licensed, open-source healthcare operating system providing patient records, encounters, observations, scheduling, pharmacy, labs, billing, and open APIs. It packages this core into ready deployments for hospitals (CARE HMIS), TeleICU, home-based palliative care grids, clinics, and animal health, with a CARE AI layer for voice documentation, summarization, and clinical decision support. The foundation sells no licenses, sustains itself through grants, sponsorships, memberships, and an implementation partner ecosystem.

Product overview

Open Healthcare Network Foundation provides an open-source, standards-based healthcare platform ecosystem. The core offering is CARE Core v3.0.0 - a FHIR R5-aligned, MIT-licensed, self-hostable healthcare operating system with PostgreSQL/Redis persistence and Django/DRF/Celery runtime. This core platform is extended through specialized solutions: CARE HMIS (hospital management), TeleICU (critical care), Palliative Care Grid (home-based care), Care Clinics (primary care), and Care Janwar (animal health). CARE AI provides the responsible AI layer with Care Scribe voice documentation, Realtime Voice Scribe, Vision tools, Doctor Summary, Care Ask copilot, Differential Diagnosis Support, Care Plan Generation, AI Score Calculators, Drug Safety Alerts, Discharge Summary Builder, and Handover Chart. The platform follows a Core + Plugins architecture enabling extensibility without fragmentation, with solutions supporting hospitals, critical care, home care, clinic, public health programs, and specialized field operations. CARE is listed in the Digital Public Goods registry and supported by an ecosystem of implementation partners, clinicians, developers, and institutional supporters.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CARE Core: The open-source, standards-based healthcare platform providing stable primitives, APIs, forms, access control, audit trails, reports, and extensibility for hospital management, palliative care, critical care, and care coordination.
• CARE AI
• CARE HMIS
• TeleICU
• Palliative Care Grid
• Care Clinics
• Care Janwar

Products and services

• CARE Core Open-source FHIR R5-aligned healthcare platform providing stable primitives for patient records, encounters, orders, observations, tasks, care plans, reports, access control, audit trails, and open APIs. Foundational offering on which all other solutions are built.
• CARE HMIS Hospital Management Information System providing complete workflows for registration, outpatient/inpatient/emergency encounters, labs, pharmacy, billing, reports, and patient portal for multi-specialty hospitals.
• TeleICU Hub-and-spoke critical care solution enabling remote rounds, escalation protocols, device integration via ONVIF, and video context for ICU monitoring across distributed hospital networks.
• Palliative Care Grid Home-based care coordination platform with longitudinal patient records, tasks, referrals, follow-up workflows, and field operations for statewide palliative care programs across 1,365 facilities.
• Care Clinics Primary care and outpatient workflows providing scheduling, prescriptions, investigations, and continuity management for clinic networks.
• Care Janwar Animal health workflows built on the same open-core pattern as CARE for veterinary facilities and field animal health programs.
• CARE AI Responsible AI layer built on CARE Core providing assistive documentation, summarization, voice workflows, form intelligence, clinical context, care planning, safety alerts, and workflow support across the platform.
• Open Healthcare Network Knowledge Base Educational platform and training hub offering courses on palliative care, CARE system usage, React/TypeScript development, Django/Python development, COVID-19 emergency response, disaster management, and wellness programs.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3.26 lakh registered patients and 15.45 lakh recorded encounters on the Kerala Palliative Care Grid (April 2026)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

AI capability10 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• eGov FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a key supporter. eGov Foundation works on digital public infrastructure and healthcare solutions, aligning with OHC's mission for open healthcare systems.
• IMA Kochi (Indian Medical Association Kochi)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Athul Joseph Manuel, President IMA Kochi / Chief Medical Officer sits on OHC Foundation Board. Hosts state reviews for Kerala Palliative Care Grid.
• Saturn GlobalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a supporter of OHC Foundation. Global healthcare consulting and implementation organization.
• SwasthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a key supporter. Swasth works on digital health stack and healthcare interoperability, aligned with OHC's standards-based approach.
• GitHubcoreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology partner contributing software tools that volunteers use to build, upgrade, and maintain Open Healthcare Network products. Open-source platform hosting.
• SlackcoreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology partner providing collaboration platform (slack.ohc.network) for community discussions, help, and collaboration.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Medplum: Open-source healthcare API platform built on FHIR with developer-first tooling. Comparable as an emerging open-source health data and workflow platform intersecting OHC's FHIR-native, developer-relations-driven approach to building healthcare infrastructure.

Broad incumbents

• eGov Foundation: Indian nonprofit building open digital public infrastructure for cities and health; key OHC Foundation board member Gigin Chandy George serves as CTO of eGov Healthcare. Comparable as a DPI nonprofit operating in adjacent domains (governance, health) in India with shared contributor ecosystem.
• Oracle Health (Cerner): Large incumbent proprietary EMR/health IT vendor serving hospital systems globally. Comparable as the established closed-source EMR alternative that OHC positions against on cost, sovereignty, and interoperability grounds.

Direct peers

• Dimagi (Community Health Toolkit): Open-source mobile health platform (Community Health Toolkit / CommCare) for community health workers and frontline programs. Comparable as an open-source health platform serving government and NGO programs in low-resource settings with field-worker workflows similar to OHC's Palliative Care Grid.
• Bahmni: Open-source hospital management information system combining OpenMRS with ERP and lab modules. Directly comparable to OHC's CARE HMIS offering, including the open-source, government-deployment, and India-anchored footprint.
• HospitalRun: Open-source hospital information system targeting resource-constrained settings. Comparable as a smaller, community-built open-source HMIS alternative addressing similar pain points around proprietary EMR cost and lock-in.
• GNU Health: Free/open-source health and hospital information system covering EMR, hospital management, and public health. Comparable as a standards-based, community-governed open health platform targeting public-sector and humanitarian deployments.
• OpenEHR International: Open specifications and vendor ecosystem for longitudinal, vendor-neutral electronic health records. Comparable as an open, standards-driven alternative to proprietary EMRs with similar interoperability-first positioning.
• DHIS2: Open-source health information management platform widely deployed by national health programs globally. Comparable to OHC's statewide palliative care grid and government health infrastructure positioning as a Digital Public Good with FHIR-aligned interoperability.
• OpenMRS: Open-source medical record system platform used across low- and middle-income countries. Highly comparable to OHC as a community-driven, FHIR/standards-aligned EMR platform stewarded by a nonprofit with a similar mission to deliver interoperable health records without vendor lock-in.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/ohcnetwork
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ohcnetwork

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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