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For hospitals, polyclinics and consultants

Doctor app development for the consultant who is never at a desk.

A doctor app puts the roster, the consult queue, the patient's record, e-prescription and imaging on the consultant's phone. We build it on HIMS and AuraPACS so nothing is retyped and every action lands in the hospital record.

Roster and live consult queueE-prescription into the pharmacy queueImaging opened from an AuraPACS link
In one sentence

What a doctor app does

Doctor app development produces a mobile app for the consultants of a hospital or clinic. It shows each doctor's roster, the consult queue for the current session, the patient's EMR when a token is called, and lets the doctor write an e-prescription, order investigations and open imaging, all against the encounter in the hospital system.

Elevate Aura builds the doctor app on HIMS, where doctor rosters, the OP queue, EMR, e-prescription, pharmacy and laboratory already exist as modules, and on AuraPACS for imaging, which opens in a browser viewer from a link with no download. The app is for Android and iOS from one codebase.

The result is a consultant who can run a session, do rounds and answer a report query from a phone, while the hospital record stays complete.

The doctor's day

Why doctors end up on WhatsApp instead of the hospital system.

Desktop systems assume the doctor is sitting in front of them. Most of a consultant's day happens somewhere else.

The roster is a message

Session times and room changes arrive as texts from the coordinator, and the doctor arrives to a queue nobody told them about.

Prescriptions on paper

Handwritten scripts are retyped at the pharmacy, or not typed at all, so the EMR is missing the one thing that matters.

Reports as photos

A junior sends a photo of the X-ray to the consultant's phone. The read is done on a compressed image with no window and level.

Rounds without the chart

On the ward the doctor asks the nurse for last night's vitals because the system is at the station, not at the bed.

No idea of the queue

The consultant does not know how many patients are waiting, so sessions overrun and walk-ins are turned away.

A session in the app

From the morning roster to the last token.

01

Roster

Today's sessions, rooms and expected numbers, straight from the HIMS roster.

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02

Queue

Live token list for the session, with arrived and waiting states.

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03

Call the token

The patient's EMR opens: history, allergies, previous prescriptions, results.

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04

Consult

Structured notes, e-prescription and investigation orders against the encounter.

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05

Imaging

CT, MR, X-ray or ultrasound opened in the AuraPACS browser viewer from the app.

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06

Close

Token completed, pharmacy and lab queues updated, next patient called.

What is included

The doctor app, screen by screen.

📅Schedule

  • Personal roster across sites
  • Session and room changes
  • Leave and cover requests
  • OT schedule where relevant

🎫Queue and consult

  • Live consult queue per session
  • Call, skip and recall tokens
  • EMR view with structured notes
  • E-prescription into the pharmacy queue
  • Lab and imaging orders

🧬Results and imaging

  • Verified lab results with alerts
  • AuraPACS viewer link per study
  • Finalised radiology report PDF
  • Search a patient's full history

🔒Ward and access

  • Bed list and rounds view
  • ICU vitals per bed where deployed
  • Role-based access, audited
  • Works on a poor ward connection

See the doctor module in HIMS →

In practice

Three moments a doctor app earns its place.

A report query at 9 pm

Workflow: A referrer asks about a CT done that afternoon. The consultant opens the study from the app in the AuraPACS viewer, scrolls the slices and replies.

Result: No trip to the reading room and no photo of a screen.

An overrunning OP session

Workflow: The queue shows twelve waiting with forty minutes left. The doctor asks the front desk in the app to move new walk-ins to the evening session.

Result: Patients are told at registration, not after two hours in a chair.

Rounds at 7 am

Workflow: The doctor walks the ward with the bed list, reads overnight vitals and updates the e-prescription per bed.

Result: Pharmacy and nursing see the changes before the round ends.

Who it is for

Doctors, and the people who schedule them.

👨‍⚕️
Consultants

Multiple sites, one roster.

🏥
Hospital medical directors

Complete EMR and prescription records.

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Polyclinics

Visiting doctors with sessions to fill.

🧬
Radiologists

Remote reading through AuraPACS.

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Nursing supervisors

Orders reach the ward without a call.

💊
Pharmacy

Prescriptions arrive typed, not photographed.

The honest comparison

Chat groups, a standalone app, or a doctor app on HIMS.

 
WhatsApp groups
Standalone doctor app
Elevate Aura
Where the prescription lands
A photo in a chat
In the app's own database
In the HIMS EMR and pharmacy queue
Imaging
Screen photos
Rarely
AuraPACS viewer with slice scrolling and window/level
Queue
Coordinator messages
Manual entry
Live from HIMS tokens
Record completeness
None
Partial
Every action against the encounter
Who maintains it
Nobody
Vendor ticket queue
The builder of HIMS and the app
Proof

Platforms we have actually shipped.

Questions

Doctor app development, answered.

Does the doctor app replace the HIMS desktop?

No. It is a mobile front on the same modules. Detailed documentation, discharge summaries and billing stay on the desktop where a keyboard helps. The app covers what a doctor does while moving: roster, queue, consult, prescription and reports.

How does the doctor view scans?

Each study in AuraPACS has a link that opens the zero-download browser viewer. From the app the doctor opens CT, MR, X-ray or ultrasound with slice scrolling and window/level on a phone or laptop. The diagnostic read remains with the hospital's radiologist.

Can doctors write prescriptions in the app?

Yes. E-prescription is a HIMS module. The prescription is saved against the encounter and appears in the pharmacy dispensing queue, so the pharmacy does not retype it from paper.

Can one doctor use it across two hospitals?

If both hospitals run HIMS the roster can show sessions per site. Across different systems each site needs its own connection, which we discuss on the call.

Does it need a strong network?

The queue and EMR need a connection to stay live, but notes and prescriptions drafted on a weak ward connection are held on the device and saved when it returns.

How is access controlled?

Each doctor sees only their own sessions and the patients under their care, with role-based access and an audit log in HIMS. Access is revoked centrally when a doctor leaves.

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