So you have decided to get your clinic onto India's national digital health network. ABDM registration is the door in, and it comes down to two registries — one for your facility, one for your doctors — plus the paperwork to verify both. This is a neutral, step-by-step guide to what registration involves in 2026, what it costs, and what to realistically expect. No hype, no pressure to rush.
Key Takeaways
- ABDM registration puts your clinic on India's national digital health network, run by the National Health Authority (NHA), so the records you produce can be trusted and linked.
- Two registries matter: the Health Facility Registry (HFR) for your clinic, and the Healthcare Professional Registry (HPR) for your doctors.
- HFR gives your establishment a verified facility ID; HPR gives each clinician a verified professional ID tied to their council registration.
- Government registration itself carries no listing fee. Your real cost is the day-to-day software you use to run the clinic.
- It is largely voluntary today but increasingly expected, and most clinics finish HFR and HPR within days to a few weeks once documents are ready.
- Registering makes you eligible; it does not, on its own, run your front desk or keep your records.
What ABDM registration actually means
ABDM — the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission — is the framework the NHA uses to connect patients, providers and records over a shared digital backbone. Registering your clinic is not one form you fill and forget. It means listing your facility and your clinicians on official registries so the records your clinic generates carry a verified stamp.
Two registries do the heavy lifting for a clinic:
- The Health Facility Registry (HFR) lists your clinic, polyclinic, nursing home or hospital.
- The Healthcare Professional Registry (HPR) lists your doctors and qualified staff.
Get both in place and your facility is recognised across the ABDM ecosystem.
HFR: registering the facility
The Health Facility Registry is a single national repository of health facilities — public and private, across every recognised system of medicine. Registering here gives your clinic a formal identity in the network.
You will provide the facility name, type (clinic, polyclinic, nursing home, hospital), address, ownership details, and the services and specialities you offer. After verification, the facility receives a unique facility ID. That ID is what ties every record your clinic issues back to a verified establishment.
HPR: registering the doctors
The Healthcare Professional Registry does the same job for individuals. Each doctor, nurse or allied professional can enrol and receive a verified digital identity, usually called the HPR ID.
For a doctor, this normally needs identity verification, state medical council registration details, and qualification information. Once verified, a professional can be linked to one or more facilities — which is what lends authenticity to the prescriptions and clinical notes they sign.
Step by step: what the process looks like
Screens change from year to year, but the shape of it in 2026 is steady.
- Create or use an ABHA-linked login for the owner or administrator.
- Open the HFR portal and start a new facility registration.
- Enter facility details, address, ownership and services.
- Upload the supporting documents the portal asks for.
- Submit and wait for verification to receive your facility ID.
- Have each doctor register on the HPR with their council registration number.
- Link the verified professionals to your facility.
Keep scanned copies of your establishment registration, ownership proof and doctors' council certificates handy before you start — chasing documents mid-application is what stretches a two-day job into two weeks.
Costs and what to expect
The registration is designed to be accessible. Here is the honest breakdown.
| Item | What to expect |
|---|---|
| HFR registration | Government registration, no listing fee |
| HPR registration | Government registration, no listing fee |
| Facility ID | Issued after verification |
| Time to go live | Days to a few weeks, depending on verification |
| Your real cost | The clinic software you run every day |
| Ongoing effort | Keeping facility and staff details current |
Is it mandatory? Largely voluntary today, but it is quietly becoming the expected standard, and insurers and government schemes are drifting toward linked digital records. Registering early is a low-cost way to stay ahead rather than scramble later.
Where Clinizy Care fits
Two honest points here. First, ABDM registration is a government process — you do it directly on the HFR and HPR portals, and no clinic software does it for you. Anyone selling you 'registration on ABDM' as a paid feature is charging for a portal you can use for free.
Second, registration only makes you eligible. The harder, daily work is running the clinic — and that is where software matters. Clinizy Care handles patient registration, digital prescriptions, patient history and EMR, and GST-ready billing, in Hindi and English, offline-first so a power cut does not stop the front desk. If you are still early, our guide to what an ABHA ID is and how patients create one and the walkthrough of the Clinical Establishments Act for clinic owners are worth reading alongside this.
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