HPR and HFR Registration: A Doctor's Step-by-Step (2026)

To register on HPR (Healthcare Professionals Registry), go to hpr.abdm.gov.in, log in with Aadhaar OTP, enter your state council registration number, upload your degree certificate, and confirm your profile. Your HFR (Health Facility Registry) registration at facility.abdm.gov.in follows the same Aadhaar-based flow but asks for clinic address and facility type. Both are free, both run by the National Health Authority, and together they put your clinic on the ABDM map. That needs to happen before any ABHA-linked record or DHIS incentive is possible. This guide walks each step in plain language.

Key takeaways

• HPR and HFR are two separate registries: HPR is for you as a practitioner; HFR is for your clinic as a facility. Both need Aadhaar-linked verification.
• Registration is free and self-service; self-declaration-based HPR typically completes in 20 to 30 minutes.
• HFR registration is the practical prerequisite for ABHA-linked records, DHIS incentive eligibility, and AB PM-JAY facility verification.
• DHIS (NHA Corrigendum 6, Nov 2025 to March 2026) pays ₹20 per eligible KYC-verified ABHA-linked transaction above a 100-transaction monthly baseline. No HFR = no linkage = no incentive.
• ABDM integration (linking records from inside your software) is a separate step that depends on your software vendor being ABDM-certified. AI Scribe by Patient Square has this on the roadmap, not shipped yet.

Source: NHA, ABDM portal (hpr.abdm.gov.in, facility.abdm.gov.in); DHIS Corrigendum 6, 20 November 2025.

HPR: what it is and why a solo clinic needs it

The Healthcare Professionals Registry is the NHA's national database of verified doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health workers. Every practitioner gets an HPR ID, which functions as a verified professional identity within the ABDM ecosystem. It is what lets the system know that the person generating a clinical record is a credentialed health professional, not an anonymous data source.

For a solo GP or a specialist, HPR matters for three practical reasons. First, it is the professional anchor for ABHA-linked records. When you generate a record and link it to a patient's ABHA, the system traces that record back to a verified practitioner on HPR. A record without an HPR-linked practitioner sits outside the ABDM chain. Second, AB PM-JAY facility empanelment increasingly checks HPR-linked practitioners at the facility. If empanelment or scheme-based billing is on your roadmap, being on HPR makes the paperwork simpler later. Third, it puts you on record as part of India's digital health infrastructure, which matters if the government eventually makes ABDM participation a condition for public-sector billing or insurance tie-ups.

Registration is not a bureaucratic end in itself. It is the professional half of a two-part handshake. The facility half is HFR. Both have to be in place before ABHA-linked workflows run.

HFR: the facility half of the same handshake

The Health Facility Registry is the NHA's database of clinics, hospitals, diagnostic labs, pharmacies, and other health facilities. HFR gives your clinic a facility ID, which is what allows ABHA records to be tagged to a specific physical location in the network.

HPR identifies who treated the patient. HFR identifies where. ABHA links the patient record to both. All three are needed before you have a functioning ABDM-linked record in the NHA's sense.

The registration flows are similar (both use Aadhaar-based identity verification and self-service portals) but the data they collect is different. HPR collects professional credentials: council registration number, degree, specialisation. HFR collects facility attributes: address, type (clinic/hospital/lab/pharmacy), bed count, services. For a solo clinic, you will typically register on HPR as a practitioner first, then register the clinic on HFR, then link your HPR profile to the HFR facility. The linkage is the step most guides skip, and it is the one that actually activates the two-part handshake.

What you need before you start

Gather these before opening either portal. Both HPR and HFR registrations stall at document upload if you don't have them ready.

For HPR:

• Aadhaar-linked mobile number (OTP-based verification, your registered Aadhaar mobile is required)
• Valid email address
• Medical registration certificate from your state medical council
• Degree certificate (MBBS, MD, MS, or equivalent)
• Your state council registration number (the alphanumeric on your council registration card)
• A photograph (passport size, clear, recent)

For HFR:

• Aadhaar-linked mobile number (same Aadhaar basis as HPR)
• Clinic address proof (rent agreement, utility bill, or property document)
• Facility registration proof where applicable (trade licence, shop establishment certificate, or society/trust registration for hospitals)
• Number of beds (including zero for a bedless clinic; the field exists and is required)
• Services offered (OPD, IPD, emergency, diagnostic, pharmacy; check what applies)

Nothing here is unusual. Most of it sits in a drawer or a folder on your computer already. The Aadhaar mobile number is the one place people get stuck. If your registered Aadhaar mobile is a number you no longer use, fix that at your nearest Aadhaar Seva Kendra before you start the portal process.

Step-by-step: HPR registration

The HPR portal is at hpr.abdm.gov.in. Walk through it in this order.

Step 1 — Create an account or log in

Go to hpr.abdm.gov.in and click "Register" if this is your first time. You will be prompted to enter your Aadhaar number. An OTP will arrive on your Aadhaar-linked mobile. Enter it. This creates your NHA account and ties it to your verified identity. (The portal also supports DigiLocker-based verification for doctors who prefer that path; check the NHA login page for current options.)

If you already have an ABHA account (the patient-facing ABHA ID is different from a practitioner HPR ID), you can log in using those credentials instead.

Step 2 — Fill in basic professional details

After verification, the portal asks for name, date of birth, gender, and contact details. These pre-populate from your Aadhaar where available. Correct anything that looks wrong before proceeding; Aadhaar-sourced data cannot be edited mid-flow.

Step 3 — Enter your medical registration

This is the core step. Select your state medical council from the dropdown, enter your registration number, and upload your registration certificate as a PDF or image. The portal validates the format; a JPG under 1 MB works reliably.

You have two paths here: self-declaration (you attest your credentials and registration completes immediately, pending future council verification) or verification-based (NHA cross-checks directly with your council, which can take days to weeks depending on council response time). For most GPs not in a time-bound empanelment process, self-declaration is the practical choice. Council verification gets triggered in the background.

Step 4 — Add qualification details

Enter your primary degree (MBBS, MD, MS, BDS, BHMS, BAMS, or other), the year of passing, and the university. Upload your degree certificate. For a specialist, add the postgraduate qualification separately in the qualification section; there is an "add another" option.

Step 5 — Set your specialisation and work experience

Choose your primary specialisation from the NHA's list. Add your current place of practice. You can add multiple practice locations if you work at more than one clinic, and you can link each location to an HFR facility once that registration is done.

Step 6 — Submit and get your HPR ID

Review the summary page carefully. Once you submit, the NHA generates your HPR ID: a 14-digit identifier formatted 98XXXXXXXXXXXX. Save it. You'll need this number when linking your HPR profile to HFR and when your software eventually connects to ABDM.

Step-by-step: HFR registration

The HFR portal is at facility.abdm.gov.in. The flow is similar to HPR but asks about the place, not the person.

Step 1 — Go to facility.abdm.gov.in and log in

Use the same Aadhaar-based credentials you set up for HPR. If you registered for HPR first, these carry over. Click "Register a New Facility" from your dashboard.

Step 2 — Enter facility type and basic details

Choose the facility type (clinic, hospital, nursing home, diagnostic lab, pharmacy, health and wellness centre, or other). Enter the facility name exactly as it appears on your registration or signage. Enter the address, including pincode. The portal cross-references pincodes against state and district codes; mismatches flag immediately.

Step 3 — Upload facility documents

Upload proof of address (utility bill or rent agreement works) and, where applicable, your registration certificate (trade licence or establishment certificate). For a clinic running from a residence, a utility bill in your name at that address is usually sufficient.

Enter your bed count. For a bedless OPD, enter zero. This matters for DHIS because the incentive baseline differs between bedless clinics and hospitals (the per-bed baseline for a hospital is 50 transactions per bed per month; a bedless clinic works off the 100-transaction monthly floor instead).

Step 4 — Add services and operating hours

Check the services your clinic actually provides: OPD consultation, preventive care, family medicine, and any specialist consultations. Do not check services you don't offer; ABDM workflows may route patients based on listed services. Add your typical operating hours.

Step 5 — Link your HPR profile

This step is the one most guides miss. Before submitting HFR registration, use the "Add Practitioners" section to associate your HPR ID with the facility. Enter your 14-digit HPR ID and confirm. This creates the professional-facility link in the ABDM ecosystem.

If you have associates or consultants working at the facility, you can add their HPR IDs here too, provided they have completed their own HPR registration.

Step 6 — Submit and get your facility ID

Review the facility details and submit. The portal generates a facility ID. For verified facilities, a QR code is issued too, which can be displayed in the clinic and scanned by patients to confirm they are at an ABDM-registered facility. Note the facility ID and keep it with your clinic records.

The DHIS connection: what registration actually unlocks

Completing HPR and HFR registration is not the finish line. It is the on-ramp. Here's what becomes possible once both are done.

First, ABHA-linked records become possible. Your software (or the NHA's own apps) can create and link patient records to ABHA IDs, tag them to your HPR practitioner profile, and associate them with your HFR facility. This is the record-linkage that DHIS measures and rewards.

Second, DHIS eligibility kicks in. Under NHA Corrigendum 6 (effective November 2025 through March 2026 at publication time; verify current status at abdm.gov.in/DHIS before filing), a registered facility earns ₹20 per eligible KYC-verified ABHA-linked transaction above the 100-transaction monthly baseline. A bedless single-doctor clinic operates on that 100-transaction floor. To see what this means in rupees for your actual volume, the ABDM incentives guide walks the math honestly, including the cases where a small OPD earns very little directly.

Third, consent-based record exchange opens up. With M2 certification (for your software vendor, not you personally), patients can consent to share records from your clinic with other providers. Your records become portable on the patient's terms.

Registration unlocks the ABDM workflow for your clinic. Software certification (the M1/M2/M3 milestones) is the vendor's job, not yours. You can be on both registries and still need your software vendor to clear ABDM certification before records flow digitally inside the system. These are separate questions. Worth asking separately.

What changes after registration is live

The practical difference is gradual, not overnight. A few things happen immediately.

Your HPR ID is live and searchable in the NHA's public registry. Patients with ABHA accounts can add you as a provider. Government-scheme portals that cross-reference HPR will see your registration.

For record linkage to actually work, though, your software has to be ABDM-certified. The NHA's sandbox-to-production process has three milestones: M1 (can create and verify ABHA, register on HPR/HFR), M2 (can share FHIR records when a patient consents), and M3 (can fetch records from other providers). A vendor certified at M2 is what it takes to generate records that count for DHIS. The HFR portal lists your facility as registered; the software's certification is what puts a patient's FHIR record on the network.

That's why the honest framing here is: registration is necessary but not sufficient. You do your part on the registries; your software vendor does theirs on the milestone certification.

A note on where PatientSquare AI Scribe sits in this

AI Scribe by Patient Square is an ambient AI medical scribe that listens during the visit and hands back a structured SOAP note, ICD-10 suggestions, and a prescription draft, ready to review and sign about two minutes after the visit. The documentation it produces, clean, structured, retrievable, is exactly the kind of record that feeds an ABHA-linked workflow when ABDM integration is in place.

What we don't do yet: we are not ABDM-certified. We do not link records to ABHA inside the tool. We are not a DHIS-registered digital solution company. ABDM integration is on our roadmap, and we will not call ourselves ABDM-compliant before we clear the milestones. If you need ABHA record linkage from inside your documentation software today, eka.care ships that integration and is the honest recommendation. That's the line.

What we do now is make the documentation accurate enough and fast enough that it's ready to feed whatever ABDM workflow you run. The note is drafted in about two minutes. Audio is processed in memory and discarded once the note is complete. No recording sits on a server, which is the cleaner answer under the DPDP Act 2023 and its consent-first, purpose-limitation logic. Data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256). Notes belong to your practice; you can export or delete any visit anytime.

Pricing is flat and published ex-GST: Solo ₹1,199 per clinician a month, Group ₹999, on launch annual billing, plus 18% GST (so the Solo plan works out to about ₹1,415 a month all-in). There is a 7-day full-featured trial, no card required.

If you're walking the ABDM onboarding path, HPR done, HFR done, now wondering what digital documentation setup makes the record-keeping part manageable: book a short demo and ask specifically how the note structure maps to what ABHA-linked records need. Or start the 7-day trial and see how a 20-patient OPD day looks when the note drafts itself.