Against the three ways a small hospital runs its OPD today. Categories, not brand names: the point is the fit, not the fight.
| Paper and Excel | A general hospital system | A dictation app | Vaidyah | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registration and patient search | Register, memory | Yes, often slow | No | By mobile in one second; families on one number; duplicate warning |
| Live queue on every screen | No | Sometimes | No | Yes, phone, tablet and desktop |
| Clinical note for every visit | Rarely | Typed by the doctor | Dictated, then pasted | Drafted by the scribe, signed by the doctor |
| Indian languages in the consultation | Yes, on paper | No | Rarely | 22 Indian languages, mixed with English |
| Prescription in the patient's language on WhatsApp | No | No | No | Yes, with how-to-take lines |
| Bill built from the visit | No | Sometimes, separate module | No | Yes; discounts approved, payments immutable |
| Reports back to the record | Paper envelope | Sometimes | No | Yes, against the order, to the patient too |
| Audit log and consent per purpose | No | Rarely | No | Yes |
| Data hosted in India, exportable | n/a | Depends | Often abroad | AWS Mumbai; export any day |
| Works offline on a phone | Yes | No | Sometimes | Recording continues offline and uploads later |
| Implementation | None | Weeks to months | An app install | Set up with you in days; the desk trained in an afternoon |
| Pricing model | Free, costly in time | Licence plus modules | Per user | Per doctor per month, no per-patient fees |
A single doctor seeing a handful of patients a day, with no lab and no claims. When that changes, the paper starts to cost more than the software.
A large hospital with inpatients, pharmacy stock, and an IT team to run modules. Vaidyah is not an IPD or inventory system in Release 1.
A doctor who wants notes typed for them and is happy to paste them elsewhere. It solves one person's problem; the OPD still runs on paper.
A 20 to 150-bed hospital that wants the whole OPD, from the token to the bill, with the note written by a scribe and signed by the doctor, in Indian languages, at a price it can afford.
Tell us about your OPD and we will say honestly whether Vaidyah is the right choice for it.
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