Document storage
Your documents stay in your account, not ours
You open a storage account in your hospital's own name, with Google or Amazon. Your documents go into it. We put files in and take them out. You hold the login.
How this normally works
- Your files sit on the vendor’s computers
- You ask them for a copy if you ever leave
- Storage is bundled into the subscription and marked up
- You never see what it actually costs
- Leaving means a negotiation
AMMAHEALTH
- Your files sit in an account in your hospital’s name
- You log in and look any time, without asking us
- You pay Google or Amazon directly, at their price
- You see what it costs, by the gigabyte, on the provider’s own bill
- Leaving changes nothing about your files
The account is yours
You open it with Google or Amazon, in your hospital’s name. Not our account with your name on it. You hold the login. You can look inside any time, without asking us.
Nothing about your files depends on us still existing
No export request. No waiting. No negotiation. Nobody has any leverage over you. You log in to Google or Amazon and everything is there, exactly as it was.
We don’t ask for permission to delete
The access we ask for is upload and read. Deleting isn’t part of it. Removing a document is yours alone to do, from your own account.
We keep no standing copy of your documents. Not even a backup
That sounds like less. It is more. If our servers were ever attacked, your patient documents would not be there to steal. We hold no copy of your files at rest. The one exception is a temporary file, deleted within 24 hours, that is made only if your own administrator exports the hospital’s data.
Where your files live
Your hospital's account
Google or Amazon, in your name. Your documents live here.
AMMAHEALTH
Puts files in and reads them back. Keeps no standing copy, not even a backup.
Patient documents live in your own storage account and are never stored by us. The administrative records inside AMMAHEALTH — appointments, billing, staff, attendance — are on our servers in the United States, and backed up in encrypted form on a rolling schedule.
You already pay for storage. You just can't see it.
Every hospital system stores your files somewhere, includes it in the subscription, and marks it up. You never see the line item. The difference here isn't that you pay — it's that you pay the real cost, directly to Google or Amazon, and at the end of it you own the account.
We take no cut of it. We don't resell it and we don't mark it up. That is why it is this cheap.
There is no plan to pick
- No minimum
- No commitment
- No annual contract
- Month to month
- By the gigabyte
You pay only for what is actually sitting there. A clinic three months in, with a few thousand prescriptions stored, might pay ₹30–50 for that month. Not a package — the actual amount. It starts near zero and grows only as your records grow.
Only patient documents go here. Your day-to-day administrative work — appointments, billing, staff, attendance — stays inside AMMAHEALTH as normal, so this does not fill up quickly.
Estimate it for your hospital
Move the slider to roughly how many documents your hospital would scan in a day. Every figure below is an estimate.
That is about 41 GB a year — roughly 55,000 documents.
- Estimated at year 1
- ₹72 / month
- Estimated at year 3
- ₹217 / month
- Estimated at year 5
- ₹361 / month
Assumes an average document of ~750 KB and Google Cloud's list rate of ~₹1.76 per GB per month. Uncompressed photos taken on a phone can be three to four times larger, which raises every figure with them. These are estimates, not a quotation — you pay Google or Amazon directly, at their price, and AMMAHEALTH receives no part of it.
How it grows over ten years
Storage only ever grows, because we never delete anything. That is the point of it, and worth being straight about. What matters is how fast, and what that costs.
These figures assume an average document of ~750 KB — a normal scanned or compressed page. Photos taken straight from a phone camera, without compression, are three to four times larger, and every number below rises with them. They are estimates from ordinary scanning practice, not measurements from your hospital, and your own scanning settings and volumes decide the real figure.
What the providers charge
These are the providers' own published rates, paid by you directly to Google or Amazon. AMMAHEALTH receives no part of them. They are indicative, set by the provider, subject to change, and they vary with region and usage.
Which one should you choose?
Google Cloud Storage or Amazon Web Services. Those two, and no others. They are among the largest providers in the world, both run data centres in India, both are used by banks and governments, and both will still exist in ten years. Cheaper or unknown providers may be slower, less reliable, or may not last.
We support Google and Amazon, and we'll help you set it up.
- Google Cloud Storage
- Amazon Web Services