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.

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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.
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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.
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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.

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Linking Care Contexts

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Creating a new Care Context

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

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HIP Inititated Linking

Use the Link API to create the care context

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Upload a Medical Record

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

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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