Health technology

Healthcare software development

We build booking, coordination and communication systems for clinics, care providers and health technology firms. When a nurse can't find a test result, or a patient gives up on a booking form, the cost is more than a few lost minutes. We keep that in mind on every screen we design.

A doctor reviewing records on a computer with a patient

Clinical systems built around consent and access

Booking, coordination and messaging systems for clinics and care providers.

Systems we build

  • Patient bookingReminders that cut missed appointments
  • Care coordinationOne shared view for every team
  • Secure messagingConversations kept inside the record
  • TelehealthVideo visits that work on any phone
  • Clinical record linksReads from and writes to existing records
  • Referral and triageReferrals that arrive complete
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Clinical and patient systems

Healthcare software for daily care

Patient booking

Patients only see slots when a clinician is really free, and reminders go out beforehand so fewer visits are missed.

Care coordination

One shared view of who is doing what for each patient, even when the teams involved use different systems.

Secure messaging

Clinicians message each other and their patients inside the record, so nothing clinical ends up in someone's personal email.

Telehealth

Video appointments that work on an ordinary phone connection. The clinician's notes go straight into the record.

Clinical record links

We read from and write to your existing record systems using FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), a common standard for sharing health data.

Referral and triage

Referral forms that can't be sent half finished, so the receiving team isn't left phoning round for missing details.

Joining up care without losing consent

Health services rarely run on one system. A single patient might pass through a booking tool, a record system, a laboratory service and a messaging app in one week, and information slips through the gaps between them. In most healthcare projects, the biggest gains come from connecting those systems, and very little needs replacing.

We plan for two things from the first week. You need to be able to show who read each record and why they were allowed to. And a patient's consent can change, so we store its full history, from the day they agreed to the day they changed their mind.

Privacy, consent and access

Privacy and consent duties we honour

  • Health privacy law. We follow the rules that apply where the care happens, and that isn't always the country where the servers sit.
  • Consent records. We record what each patient agreed to and when, plus any later changes. Withdrawing consent works just as reliably as giving it.
  • Access control. Staff see the records their role needs and nothing more. When someone uses emergency access to open a record outside their role, it's logged and reviewed.
  • Audit of record access. We log who opened each record and keep that log long enough to answer a complaint years later.
  • Accessibility. We follow WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), because many of your patients have impaired sight, hearing or movement.

Systems we usually connect to

Electronic health record systemsLaboratory and diagnostic servicesPharmacy and prescribing systemsNational identity and patient index servicesAppointment and reminder channelsBilling and insurance claim systems

Your patient record, scheduling, laboratory and pharmacy systems already hold years of trusted data. We read from them and write back to them wherever an interface allows. If a clinic ever moves off a system that works, your team should make that call on purpose, and a project should never force it by accident. Before patient data reaches anything new, work through our application security checklist.

Clinical project stages

From observation to supervised pilot

  1. Sit with the clinical team

    We watch the work as it really happens, sticky notes and workarounds included. Each workaround tells us something the new software has to do.

    Week 1 to 2
  2. Agree the record model

    We agree which data the new system stores, which it reads from existing systems, and who may see each part.

    Week 2 to 4
  3. Build one pathway

    We build one complete patient pathway and put it in front of real clinicians every two weeks.

    Week 4 to 14
  4. Run a supervised pilot

    One team uses it with real patients while we stay on hand. Only then is it offered more widely.

    Week 14 onward

The weeks shown are what we see most often. Clinical sign off, information governance review and how soon a pilot team can be freed from rota duties usually decide the pace. Read how each stage of our delivery works for more detail.

For patients and staff

What clinics and patients gain

Fewer missed appointments

Reminders and easy rescheduling mean a patient who can't make it frees the slot for someone else.

Less time spent chasing

Referrals and handovers arrive with the details already filled in, so staff spend less time on the phone.

Answers for the privacy officer

When your privacy officer needs access logs or a consent history, they can run a report in place of a long investigation.

Healthcare questions

Healthcare software questions answered

Usually, yes. Most current record systems offer FHIR or HL7 interfaces, and we build against those so your record system stays the official source. If there's no interface, we look at the export options your supplier supports before anything else.

Our developers don't work with real patient records. We build using made up data with the same structure. Any work that has to touch live data happens inside your own environment, under your access rules.

We build supporting systems such as booking, coordination and messaging. If your product might count as a medical device, a specialist needs to confirm that and agree the evidence required before development starts. We'll raise it with you early if we think it applies.

Start with one patient pathway

Tell us where patients or staff lose time. We can start without any real patient data.