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Guides for running a psychiatry, psychology or de-addiction practice in India

Compliance explainers, comparisons, and practical workflow notes — written for clinicians, not for search engines. New posts added regularly.

AI & Workflow · 25 Jul 2026 · 6 min read

How AI note-writing actually saves psychiatrists time — without losing control

Documentation is the part of the day that eats into everything else. Here is how AI-assisted note drafting genuinely helps, and why "the AI writes your notes" is not quite the right way to describe it.

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Comparisons · 18 Jul 2026 · 5 min read

Outgrowing spreadsheets and five different apps: when a practice needs one system

A booking app here, a video link there, notes in a notebook, billing in Excel. It works fine for the first year. Then the practice grows, and it starts costing more time than it saves.

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Comparisons · 10 Jul 2026 · 6 min read

Psychiatry EMR vs general clinic software: what is actually different

On the surface, a general clinic management system and a psychiatry-specific one both do "patient records and billing." The difference only shows up once you are actually using it in an OPD.

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Compliance · 2 Jul 2026 · 6 min read

ABHA and ABDM for private psychiatry clinics — a simple explainer

ABHA, ABDM, HIP, HIU — the acronyms make it sound like a government IT project, which it is. But what it actually means for a private psychiatry or psychology practice is much simpler than it sounds.

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Compliance · 25 Jun 2026 · 6 min read

MHCA 2017 forms every psychiatric or de-addiction facility actually needs

The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 changed how in-patient psychiatric and de-addiction admissions are documented in India. Here is what the paperwork actually requires, without the legal jargon.

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Compliance · 18 Jun 2026 · 7 min read

Maintaining the NDPS register the right way — a guide for Indian de-addiction centres

Buprenorphine, methadone-adjacent medicines, benzodiazepines — if your facility dispenses any Schedule medicine under the NDPS Act, the register is the first thing an inspector opens. Here is how to keep it correct without it eating your day.

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