Board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon, practicing in Salem, Tamil Nadu — and the doctor who writes the code behind SurgMD and NexEMR Lite.
There's a flood of "AI-built" hospital software right now — generated in a weekend, never used by the people who wrote it. I'm a practicing plastic and reconstructive surgeon in Salem, Tamil Nadu, specializing in reconstructive microsurgery, trauma reconstruction, and aesthetic procedures. Every workflow in Chounda's products — SurgMD, NexEMR Lite — comes from what I actually needed at the desk between cases, not a feature list assembled from someone else's assumptions about medicine.
I got frustrated watching hospitals like mine — in a tier-2/tier-3 town, not a metro — pay enterprise EMR prices for software built around workflows we'd never touch. We used a fraction of the features and still carried the full cost, and that cost only climbed: recurring licences that increased year on year, for modules gathering dust.
So I'm building it myself instead. Doctor-tested — I use it in my own workflow — and then handed to the people who actually run the front desk: reception, billing, and pharmacy staff with no technical background. If they can't pick it up without hand-holding, it's not done. This is software by a doctor, tested by non-technical staff, for other doctors who are tired of paying enterprise prices for hospital-scale software they'll never fully use.
Presented at national and regional conferences including APSICON, TANPAPS, and DFSICON, with ongoing CME involvement in diabetic foot management, burns, and soft tissue reconstruction.
Peer-reviewed papers on necrotizing fasciitis, bear maul injuries, albino patient reconstruction, and rare nerve tumors.
Every module in NexEMR Lite and every note in SurgMD has been shaped by real cases, real clinics, and real constraints — not a generic template dressed up with AI polish. If it doesn't hold up on a busy OP day, it doesn't ship.