Looking at Halemind
Clinifyd, if you are weighing it against Halemind
A fair account of what Halemind is good at, and then what we do differently — in detail, and only things that exist today. No feature table with our column pre-ticked; you can get that anywhere and it is worth nothing.
What Halemind is good at
An honest description
Halemind spans hospitals and clinics across India, and its regional language coverage — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam — is among the strongest in the category. For a practice whose front desk does not work in English, that is not a nice-to-have.
What we hear from clinics looking around
The clinics that reach us are the smaller, single-discipline ones for whom a hospital-scale system is more than the day needs.
We do not run Halemind, so we will not tell you what it cannot do — the people who can answer that are Halemind and the clinic down the road who uses it. Everything below is only about us.
What Clinifyd does differently
Built for a clinic, not a hospital
A single-discipline practice is not a small hospital, and software written for wards tends to make a physiotherapy clinic pay for complexity it will never use. Clinifyd is shaped around the clinic day — the diary, the treatment room and the money — with the parts a small practice actually touches put where a busy person can reach them.
Three months free, and no card
The whole workspace, not a crippled tier, for three months without a card. Refer a colleague and another month is added to yours every time one joins, with no limit — applied to the invoice rather than promised in an email. No lock-in contract and no exit fee.
Your records leave in one click
Full CSV export of patients, appointments, notes and invoices, whenever you want, without asking us and without a fee. Every export is recorded in the audit log. We would rather show you the exit before you sign up than have you discover it does not exist two years in.
Moving your patients across
You can do it yourself
Export your patient list from Halemind as a CSV and load it in Manage → Bring your data. The columns are read from the file's own headings, so you do not have to tell us what shape the export is in or rename anything first.
Nothing is written until you have seen it
The first pass only reads: it shows which columns were recognised, how many patients would be created, and who would be skipped because they are already here. You decide after seeing that, rather than before.
A date it cannot read, it refuses to guess
03/04/1980 is March in one country and April in another. Rather than pick, the import leaves that date blank and tells you the line number. A wrong date of birth decides concession eligibility and which of two same-named patients you have open.
Run both for a fortnight
We would rather you kept Halemind running alongside for the first couple of weeks than trusted a migration on anybody's word, including ours. See what moving involves.
Questions worth asking any vendor
How do I get my data out?
Ask before you sign up, not after. Ours is a CSV export of patients, appointments, notes and invoices, available to you without asking us and without a fee. If the answer involves a support ticket or a quote, that is the answer.
What happens to a note if my internet drops?
In Clinifyd it keeps saving locally and recovers when you come back. It is a dull question until the day it is the only question, which is usually the day somebody loses a consultation.
Can a paid invoice be edited?
Ours cannot. A correction is a credit note plus a replacement, and the original keeps its number and date. Convenient editing of paid invoices is a problem waiting for an audit.
Who is actually building it?
Two people, in a clinic that sees patients. That is a real limitation — we are smaller than everything else on this page — and it is also why the person who fixes a bug is the person who hit it.
Also worth looking at
If you are comparing properly, compare widely. These are the other systems clinics in India usually shortlist.
Practo Ray
India's best-known clinic software, bundled with the Practo patient discovery network.
Cliniify
India-focused clinic management with ABDM and ABHA awareness, multi-doctor and multi-specialty.
SmartPT
India-native physiotherapy system combining scheduling, EMR, home exercise and telehealth.