Industries
Healthcare software development
Health software is ordinary software with one unforgiving difference: the data is special category under GDPR, and getting the handling wrong is a regulatory problem rather than a bug report.
Clinical software people quietly stop using
The pattern we see is a scheduling or records system that staff route around. Appointments get kept in a parallel notebook, notes get typed after the fact, and the official system becomes a data-entry chore instead of the thing that helps. Once that happens the record is no longer trustworthy, which is a clinical risk as much as a software one. The fix is almost never more features.
What we build
- Patient scheduling and appointment reminders
- Clinic and practice management
- Patient portals and intake forms
- Telemedicine and video consultation flows
- Referral and triage workflows
- Reporting for clinical and operational teams
What makes this sector hard
Health data is special category
Under GDPR Article 9 health data needs a lawful basis beyond ordinary consent and materially stronger safeguards. In practice that means encryption at rest and in transit, access scoped per role, and a defensible answer to who can see a record and why. We design that in at the data model, because bolting it on later means touching every query.
Everything needs an audit trail
Who viewed which record, when, and what changed. Not a log file, but a queryable trail you can produce when asked. Retrofitting this is one of the most expensive changes in health software, so it goes in from the first migration.
Interoperability decides your ceiling
Sooner or later the system has to exchange data with a lab, an insurer or a national registry. Building around HL7 and FHIR concepts from the start costs little. Inventing a private data format and translating later costs a rebuild.
On experience in your sector
We are straight about this: these are capability pages, not a client list. Where we have delivered in a sector we will name the client on the projects page. Where we have not, what we bring is the engineering, the compliance groundwork and a willingness to learn your domain quickly rather than pretend we already have.
FAQ
We can build to the technical requirements: encryption, access control, audit logging, retention and deletion, data processing records. What we cannot do is certify you. Compliance is organisational as well as technical, covering policies, training and contracts, and needs your legal advisor. We will tell you plainly which half we are handling.
Usually, and this is the first thing to establish rather than the last. If the incumbent has a documented API or supports HL7 or FHIR exports, integration is straightforward. If it is a closed system with no export path, that constraint shapes the whole project and we would rather find it in week one than month three.
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