Madhya Pradesh’s Health and Medical Education Department began taking government hospitals paperless on 1 November 2026, Madhya Pradesh Foundation Day, under a ₹300-crore Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) project. In Indore, hospitals attached to MGM Medical College, which formally moved outpatient services onto the system on 31 October, logged 1,771 digital registrations on day one.

What Madhya Pradesh’s paperless hospitals change

The rollout is meant to reach every level of the public system, from medical college hospitals to sub-health centres. According to state officials quoted by local media, it covers:

• OPD registration, with slips sent to patients’ phones by SMS or in digital form
• Doctor consultations, laboratory tests, diagnostics, pharmacy and billing
• Prescriptions that go straight to the dispensing counter, and test requests that update automatically
• Integration with the Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA), so patients can access their records digitally

Each government doctor is to receive a tablet listing the medicines available for different conditions, so prescriptions match what the hospital has in stock. Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal has piloted the system for six months in its medicine, dermatology and psychiatry departments, and Dean Dr Kavita Singh said it will be extended to all departments.

Indore’s first day on digital OPD

Maharaja Yeshwantrao (MY) Hospital recorded 1,537 digital OPD registrations on the first day, and MTH Hospital recorded 234. The OPD module is also live at the Super Speciality Hospital, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, the State Cancer Hospital and MRTB Hospital.

Registration, consultation notes, test results and treatment history now sit on one central platform, so doctors in any department can see a patient’s earlier visits. That should cut paperwork and repeat tests. The module had been on trial since August, and staff and data-entry operators received refresher training at launch.

Inpatient records still wait for hardware

The switch is not complete. Network cabling has been laid across the hospital premises, but the inpatient (IPD) module is on hold because wards and nursing stations have not yet received the desktop computers and tablets needed to record bed allocation, ward rounds and treatment updates. Hospital authorities have not given a timeline for the equipment.

Why it matters for digital health in India

Large state systems that feed records into ABHA are what give the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) its value. Many of the country’s digital health IDs still have no medical records attached, and the move comes days after ABDM retired the ABHA app in favour of Aarogya Setu 2.0. Madhya Pradesh joins states such as Haryana, which has expanded e-Upchar OPD pre-registration across public hospitals. Patients can manage their ABHA records through the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission portal.

FAQ

When did Madhya Pradesh hospitals go paperless?

The state began the rollout on 1 November 2026. MGM Medical College hospitals in Indore formally started digital OPD on 31 October.

Is the inpatient module live?

Not yet in Indore. It is waiting for computers and tablets for wards and nursing stations.

Featured image: Community Health Centre, Kailaras, Morena district, Madhya Pradesh. Photo: Pacificintel / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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