HPR & HFR Registries
The national registries of verified healthcare professionals and health facilities.
ABDM maintains two master registries that anchor trust in the ecosystem: who is treating patients (HPR) and where (HFR). Together they form the National Healthcare Providers Registry (NHPR) — and integrating them into your product is Milestone 4.
Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR)
The HPR is a verified directory of doctors, nurses, and other health
professionals. Professionals enrol with their credentials (e.g. medical
council registration) and receive an HPR ID (hpXXXX style ID /
professional's ABHA-like identity).
Why it matters for integrators:
- Doctor accounts in your HMIS can be linked to verified HPR IDs.
- Telemedicine and e-prescription workflows may require the prescribing doctor's HPR ID.
- FHIR
Practitionerresources should carry the HPR identifier where available.
Portal: hpr.abdm.gov.in
Health Facility Registry (HFR)
The HFR is the registry of hospitals, clinics, diagnostic labs, and pharmacies. Each facility gets a unique Facility ID, geo-tagged profile, and declared services.
Why it matters for integrators:
- A facility must be HFR-registered before it can be an HIP or HIU bridge participant. Your bridge registration maps facility IDs to your software.
- Discovery flows are scoped by facility — patients see the facility name from HFR when records are found.
- FHIR
Organization/Locationresources should reference the HFR facility ID.
Portal: facility.abdm.gov.in
Onboarding order
A typical provider onboarding: register the facility in HFR → verify the facility manager → link the facility to your software's bridge (HIP ID) → start discovery/linking flows for that facility.
Bridge registration
Your software (the "bridge") is registered with the gateway and then linked to one or more facilities:
{
"bridgeId": "your-software-client-id",
"hipId": "IN0410000123",
"facilityName": "Sunrise Multi-speciality Hospital",
"roles": ["HIP", "HIU"]
}The hipId / hiuId used across gateway APIs is the HFR facility ID (or an
ID mapped to it), so keep facility-to-bridge mappings first-class in your data
model — multi-facility vendors handle many.
Registering via API (Milestone 4)
Both registries expose full onboarding APIs — HPR ID creation, professional
registration, and facility onboarding — served from the HSP host
(apihspsbx.abdm.gov.in in sandbox; browsable via the
HSP Swagger UI).