Open Healthcare Network

Type	Nonprofit foundation
Industry	Health information technology
Products	CARE
Headquarters	Kochi, Kerala, India
CIN	U88100KL2025NPL098818
License	MIT License · Digital Public Good
Website	ohc.network

Open Healthcare Network (OHC; legally the Open Healthcare Network Foundation) is a nonprofit that builds and stewards CARE, an open, FHIR-native "operating system for healthcare." OHC stewards CARE Core, apps, standards, and integrations so governments, hospitals, and implementers can run interoperable health systems without vendor lock-in.

CARE is MIT licensed and listed as a Digital Public Good.

Mission

OHC exists to keep a dependable, shared healthcare core in the open. Health systems do not adopt source code alone — they need governance, releases, documentation, security, and an ecosystem that keeps the shared core reliable over years. The foundation provides that institutional layer around the software.

Foundation layer

The foundation organises its work into five responsibilities:

Core platform — stable primitives, APIs, forms, access control, audit trails, reports and extensibility.
Standards — FHIR-aligned modelling, terminology bindings, ABDM patterns and implementation guides.
Quality and security — release discipline, vulnerability handling, testing expectations and documentation quality.
Ecosystem — developer community, clinical review, implementation partners and public-good funding paths.
AI readiness — assistive, human-reviewed documentation and summarisation on structured clinical data.

Platform

The CARE platform pairs a stable core with plugins and packaged solutions:

CARE Core — reusable clinical and administrative primitives.
CARE Apps — plugins for AI Scribe, TeleICU, imaging, devices, messaging and analytics.
Standards and architecture — the interoperability and security foundation.

Solutions

CARE Core is packaged into deployable workflows:

CARE HMIS — hospital management.
TeleICU — remote critical care.
Palliative Care Grid — home-based care coordination.
Care Clinics — primary and outpatient care.
Care Janwar — animal health.

Field proof

OHC's public-good claims are kept dated and program-specific. The 10BedICU program has deployed 200+ tele-ICUs in remote districts of India on CARE.

Recognition

I had a chance to meet with the Open Healthcare Network, it's fantastic to see what they are doing.

Satya Nadella— CEO, Microsoft

One of the most active open-source contributor communities in India.

Srikanth Nadhamuni— Founding CTO, Aadhaar

Great work in putting 200+ tele-ICUs in remote districts in India.

Vinod Khosla— Founder, Khosla Ventures

Organisation

Open Healthcare Network Foundation is registered in Kochi, Kerala, India.

Registered address: 1st Floor, C M Complex, Kalavath Road, Palarivattom, Kochi, Ernakulam, Kerala, India, 682025
Corporate Identity Number (CIN): U88100KL2025NPL098818

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Governance, board and advisor details, funding partners and dated impact metrics are omitted here until verified against an official OHC source. Details such as board members, partners, dated metrics and repository links are intentionally left blank until verified against an official OHC source.