Overview

A Care Context represents a logical grouping of health records. Each HMIS, LMIS, or PHR system should determine how to organize data into one or more care contexts for a user. For example, a hospital system might create a care context for each hospital visit, a lab test is a care-context for LMIS, or user-uploaded records in a PHR app.

Listing Care Contexts

This feature is useful for displaying a list of care contexts to a doctor (HMIS) or within a PHR app.

Listing linked Care Contexts involves two steps, as an ABHA address could have thousands of documents associated with multiple providers.

1. List Linked Providers

   Use the List Providers API to retrieve all linked providers. This API returns a hip_id and the name for each linked provider.

2. List Care Contexts for a Provider

   Using the hip_id obtained from the previous step, use the List Care Contexts API to retrieve all linked care contexts for that provider.

Linking Care Contexts

Creating a new Care Context

Care contexts can be linked to an ABHA in various ways, depending on the document type.

HIP Inititated Linking

Use the Link API to create the care context

Upload a Medical Record

Use the Upload API to upload a document and API will automatically create a care context.

Discover Unlinked Care Contexts

ABDM allows a user to find their health records from any health facility they have visited via the discovery process. Detailed Documentation