Looking at MediXcel
Clinidiary, if you are weighing it against MediXcel
A fair account of what MediXcel 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 MediXcel is good at
An honest description
MediXcel is the hospital information system and electronic health record from Plus91 Technologies, headquartered in Mumbai with offices in Pune, Patna, Agartala and Chandigarh and "Innovating Since 2009". The vendor describes it as "the complete hospital information system", covering inpatient, outpatient, pharmacy, lab, billing and imaging in one unified record. For smaller settings it offers MediXcel LITE for independent and group practices, and a separate LIMS for diagnostic labs. Its site emphasises ABDM compliance, real-time dashboards for hospital leadership, an early-warning system for patient deterioration, cybersecurity and audit readiness, patient engagement over WhatsApp and SMS, and cloud deployment. Its site names government deployments in Tripura and Bihar among its customers.
Who tends to compare the two
A clinic comparing the two is usually a hospital physiotherapy department, or a physiotherapist attached to a hospital that runs MediXcel, asking whether an outpatient rehab service should live in the hospital-wide record or in its own system. MediXcel's positioning is the whole institution, from wards to lab to pharmacy; Clinidiary's is a free, single-discipline clinic record. The answer usually follows whether the physio service is inside the hospital's billing and admissions or runs as its own clinic.
We do not run MediXcel, so we will not tell you what it cannot do — the people who can answer that are MediXcel and the clinic down the road who uses it. Everything below is only about us.
What Clinidiary 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. Clinidiary 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.
Free, and no card
The whole workspace, not a crippled tier, and no card. Refer a colleague and you earn points every time one joins, with no limit — they sit on your account and do not expire. 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.
Everything on a screen is also an API
Every capability lands as an API route first, behind the same permission, and the screen is built as a client of it. If a screen can do something a key with the right permissions cannot, we treat that as a bug. It means a report, an integration or a migration is possible without waiting for us to build it.
Moving your patients across
You can do it yourself
Export your patient list from MediXcel as a CSV and load it in Settings → 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 MediXcel 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 Clinidiary 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.
Halemind
Multi-specialty EHR used across Indian hospitals and clinics, with strong regional language support.
SmartPT
India-native physiotherapy system combining scheduling, EMR, home exercise and telehealth.