Healthcare Software Development
Health software carries two constraints most sectors don't: the data is among the most heavily regulated in existence, and the systems it must talk to were designed decades apart. Both shape the architecture from day one.
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Constraints specific to healthcare
The problems that shape software here, and that generic engineering tends to discover late.
Interoperability with systems built in different eras
A hospital estate typically spans HL7 v2 interfaces, FHIR APIs, DICOM imaging and flat-file exchanges. Anything new has to speak to all of them without becoming a translation layer nobody can maintain.
Access control that mirrors clinical reality
Who may see which record depends on care relationship, role, consent and context — not a flat permission list. Getting this wrong is a breach, so it belongs in the data model rather than the UI.
Clinical safety and traceability
Where software influences a clinical decision, it needs a recorded rationale: what data was shown, what version of the logic ran, and who acted on it.
Availability that matches how care works
Clinical software is used at three in the morning by someone with no time to raise a ticket. Degraded modes and offline behaviour need designing rather than assuming.
Software we build for healthcare
Patient-facing applications
Appointment booking, results access, messaging and remote monitoring interfaces built for a general population, including people with low digital confidence.
EHR and clinical system integration
HL7 v2, FHIR and DICOM integration, with an anti-corruption layer so upstream idiosyncrasies do not propagate through your system.
Consent and access management
Consent capture, purpose-bound access and auditable disclosure logs — recording not only who accessed a record but under what basis.
Clinical data pipelines
De-identification, cohort extraction and analytics infrastructure for research and operational reporting, with re-identification risk considered explicitly.
Standards that apply to software in this sector
What the software has to be built to satisfy. Which of these apply to you depends on your jurisdiction, your data and your customers.
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US patient data
- HIPAA
- HITECH
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EU / UK patient data
- GDPR
- UK GDPR
[ 03 ]
Interoperability
- HL7 v2
- FHIR
- DICOM
- SNOMED CT
[ 04 ]
Medical device software
- IEC 62304
- FDA SaMD guidance
- EU MDR
[ 05 ]
Records & signatures
- 21 CFR Part 11
[ 06 ]
Accessibility
- WCAG 2.2
- Section 508
These are the standards we design and build to meet. Certification or attestation of your organisation is a separate exercise, carried out by a qualified assessor — we can support that process with documentation and evidence, but we do not certify it.
Tell us about the clinical or patient workflow
Discuss a healthcare projectHow we'd approach it
The service lines this sector most often needs.
Custom Software Development
Bespoke systems shaped around your operations, integrated with the tools and data you already run on.
Web Application Development
Scalable web applications on modern frameworks, engineered for first-load performance and sustained load.
Mobile App Development
Native and cross-platform iOS and Android apps, built for real network conditions rather than office Wi-Fi.
Data Analytics & Engineering
Pipelines, warehousing and reporting built so the numbers reconcile and people act on them.
Projects in this space
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Gunjan IVF World
A patient companion web app for an IVF clinic group — assessment, journey tracking and consultation booking.
Healthcare — Hospital Operations
E-Med
A hospital management platform, web and mobile, covering OPD to admissions, digital prescriptions and billing.
Healthcare: common questions
Something specific to your operation?
Send it over — sector questions are the ones we most like getting.
Ask us01
Can you build HIPAA-compliant software?
We build software designed to satisfy HIPAA's technical safeguards — access control, audit logging, integrity checks, transmission security and encryption at rest and in transit. It is worth being precise about the terminology: HIPAA compliance applies to your organisation as a covered entity or business associate, not to a piece of software in isolation. We build to the requirements and document how each safeguard is met; the compliance posture itself is yours, supported by a Business Associate Agreement where one is needed.
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Do you work with FHIR and HL7?
Yes. FHIR where the target system supports it, HL7 v2 where it does not — which is still very common. We normally put a translation layer between the integration and your domain model so upstream quirks stay contained.
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Is software you build a regulated medical device?
It depends entirely on what it does. Software that informs a clinical decision may fall under Software as a Medical Device rules — FDA guidance in the US, EU MDR in Europe — which brings requirements including IEC 62304 lifecycle processes. Software that schedules appointments or handles administration generally does not. This classification needs settling early, because it changes the development process rather than just the paperwork.
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How do you handle de-identification for research or analytics?
Carefully, and with the limits stated plainly. Removing direct identifiers is straightforward; ensuring a dataset cannot be re-identified through combination is not. We design for the specific standard you need to meet and are explicit about residual risk rather than describing data as anonymous when it is pseudonymous.
Adjacent sectors
Tell us about the clinical or patient workflow
Describe what the software has to do, which systems it must talk to, and whose data it touches. We'll come back with an approach.
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