
<p><strong>CareLite captures a patient's ABHA number and ABHA address, links it to their hospital UHID after OTP verification through the ABDM gateway, can publish visits and admissions as care contexts so they appear in the patient's own health app, and logs every gateway request and response for NHA review. Live operation depends on the hospital's own registration with the National Health Authority.</strong></p>

<h2>What is built</h2>
<ul>
<li>ABHA number and ABHA address on the patient record, captured at registration or added later</li>
<li>Verification by OTP to the mobile registered against the ABHA, through the ABDM M3 gateway</li>
<li>Linking a verified ABHA to the hospital UHID, with one ABHA never sitting on two patient records</li>
<li>Publishing care contexts — visits and admissions — so a patient can see them in their own app</li>
<li>A complete transaction log of every gateway call, successful or failed, with secrets and OTPs masked</li>
<li>Facility (HFR) and practitioner (HPR) identifiers held against the hospital and its doctors</li>
</ul>

<h2>What the hospital has to do</h2>
<p>ABDM participation is the hospital's own registration, not the software's. A hospital needs to be listed on the Health Facility Registry and hold client credentials from the National Health Authority. Once those exist they are entered against the hospital and the module is switched on. Moving from the ABDM sandbox to production is a setting, not a software change.</p>

<h2>ABDM never blocks treatment</h2>
<p>If the gateway is unreachable, the credentials are not yet issued, or the patient simply does not want an ABHA, registration and billing carry on exactly as normal. An ABHA can always be recorded by hand and verified later. The UHID remains the hospital's identity for the patient; ABHA sits beside it. A patient who declines ABDM is not a second-class record.</p>

<h2>What is not claimed</h2>
<p>CareLite is ABDM-ready in the sense described above. Formal certification and milestone approval rest with the National Health Authority and with the hospital's own application. Health information exchange beyond care-context linking, and clinical document sharing, belong to the clinical modules that sit outside Phase 1.</p>
