brotherton-erpnext/erpnext/docs/user/manual/en/healthcare/index.md

# ERPNext for Healthcare

Life is priceless, and you as a medical practioner needs a best tools to honour it. ERPNext Healthcare domain is a humble initiative to help you serve your patients better.

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### What Healthcare Module Covers

ERPNext Healthcare helps you manage your clinic or practice efficiently by scheduling **Appointments** and recording **Patient Encounters** (Consultations). You can easily pull out a **Patient's Health Record** anytime to review all the history of treatments assisting you in providing effective, high quality care.

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### Contributors of ERPNext Healthcare module

The healthcare domain of ERPNext is a first domain to be competely contributed by a ERPNext community member, Earthians. Listen to Anoop, founder of Earthian on what motivated him to venture into Healthcare domain and how it benefit all the stack-holders of the community.

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### User Manual

A clinic needs lots more than Healthcare module to operate efficiently. ERPNext has all of it available built-in.

- You track your books of accounts using [Accounts module](/docs/user/manual/en/accounts.html).
- Manage payroll, leaves and claims of your support staff in the [HR module](/docs/user/manual/en/human-resources.html).
- Organize your [purchases](/docs/user/manual/en/buying.html) and place an approval system.

Here is the stepwise guide on each functionality of ERPNext Healthcare module.

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