Bahmni Lite - A lightweight opensource version of Bahmni
Bahmni Lite is a light-weight, opensource flavor of Bahmni targeted towards clinics & small hospitals, which don’t need a heavy-weight HIMS, but are looking for an easy-to-use EMR & Billing software. See Release Notes.
Bahmni Lite contains Bahmni EMR (backend is OpenMRS), Crater (billing and invoicing solution) and Metabase for Analytics – and is cloud ready for quick deployment. Read more here.
In contrast to standard version of Bahmni for hospitals, the Lite version of Bahmni does not package opensource OpenELIS (Lab information system) and Odoo (ERP). Instead it packages Lab Lite module and Crater. The EMR/Clinical portion of Bahmni Standard and Bahmni Lite are exactly the same. It's just the Lab & ERP pieces which are different – due to the fact that Lite is targeted towards clinics/small hospitals which don’t need full blown Lab management systems or ERP for stock management, etc.
Read this presentation PDF to know more: (PDF on Bahmni Lite)
YouTube Video introduction to Bahmni Lite: (Bahmni Lite v1.0 Intro on YouTube)
Screenshots of Bahmni: (See this presentation with screenshots)
You can evaluate Bahmni Lite on our QA environments, or use the docker version to start the relevant services (openmrs, crater).
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1 | Opensource | Yes, fully opensource package! | Yes, fully opensource package! |
2 | Target Audience | Comes pre-configured for use by Clinics & Small Hospitals (< 25 beds), but can also be used by Large Facilities, if they so desire. Reference configuration is pre-packaged in clinic-config sub-folder. | Configured and packaged keeping use-cases for Large Hospitals (> 100 beds) in mind. |
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4 | Deployment Options |
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5 | Mobile / Tablet Responsive |
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6 | Cloud Readiness |
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7 | Scalability / Performance | Most performant version of Bahmni till now! See details here. | Bahmni is live in health care facilities with over 250K patient records, 22 Million Clinical observations across 720K visits, recorded across 5+ years (on-prem server). |
8 | Latest Release Version | Bahmni Lite v 1.0 (Coming soon!). (Releases Page) | v 0.93. (Releases Page) |
9 | Install options |
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10 | OpenMRS Platform |
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11 | Security | Significant number of Security fixes and stability enhancements! |
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12 | Master Data |
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13 | ABDM Ready | ABDM ready for India (requires additional open source ABDM services to be installed). Read more here. | Same as Lite. |
14 | APIs |
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15 | Demo Server |
You can choose to start with Bahmni Lite version, irrespective of your facility size and slowly migrate over to adding more services like Odoo or OpenELIS or DCM4chee as needed. This way, you get the latest, performant and most secure version of Bahmni, and can incrementally evolve.
Timeline wise: Bahmni Lite v1.0 was released in Jun-2023, and Bahmni Standard v1.0 likely in Mar-2024 (under discussion). You can evaluate Bahmni LITE today, by following the steps mentioned in Getting Started with Bahmni Docker.
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