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Healthcare software,
clinically grounded.

Patient apps, clinician tools, remote monitoring and the integration work nobody warns you about — FHIR, HL7, GP Connect. Built with the evidence pack an NHS buyer will ask for, because they always ask.

Free working prototype Built from your brief before any paid engagement. Yours to keep, no commitment.
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15
Years building software in London
4
Healthcare products in the portfolio
150+
Clients since 2010
5-10
Working days to a free prototype
What we do

Healthcare software
we ship.

Four products in this sector already, and the same pattern in each: the clinical workflow is the hard part, not the app.

01 — Patients

Patient-facing apps

Appointments, medication reminders, results, care plans and messaging — designed for people who are unwell, not for people testing an app.

02 — Clinicians

Clinician tools

Triage, caseload, referrals, notes and handover. Built around what a working day actually looks like, with the number of taps counted.

03 — Integration

FHIR, HL7 and GP Connect

Getting data in and out of the systems already in place — EMIS, SystmOne, trust PAS — is where these projects live or die.

04 — Monitoring

Remote monitoring

Wearables and home devices into a clinical dashboard, with alerting rules a clinician can tune rather than a black box.

05 — Data

Reporting and analytics

Service dashboards, outcome tracking and the audit trail that has to exist before anyone will sign anything off.

06 — Evidence

The compliance pack

DTAC responses, DCB0129 hazard logs, DSPT alignment and clinical safety documentation produced alongside the build, not scrambled together afterwards.

The thing that sinks these projects

Clinical safety is not
a phase at the end.

Three things that decide whether a healthcare build reaches patients, all of which are cheaper to settle in week one than in month six.

Pillar 01

Is it a medical device?

Software that supports a diagnostic or treatment decision can fall under UK MDR and need UKCA marking — the boundary turns on intended purpose and on how the output is worded. We raise it in the first fortnight, because a product that crosses that line quietly is a product that stops at procurement.

Pillar 02

The evidence a buyer will ask for

DTAC, DCB0129 and a clinical safety officer's sign-off are not paperwork you bolt on. They shape the architecture: audit logging, data residency, role separation, failure behaviour. Built in from the start they cost little; retro-fitted they cost a re-write.

Pillar 03

Integration is the project

The app is rarely the hard part. Reading and writing a record in the systems a trust or practice already runs — and proving you did it safely — is where the weeks go. We scope that first and price it honestly.

Process

From idea to something
a clinician will use.

The same process we run on every engagement, with the healthcare-specific questions asked early rather than discovered late.

Step 01

Clinical workflow research

1 – 2 weeks

We sit with the people who will use it — clinician, patient, administrator, carer — and map the day as it is, not as the org chart describes it. Every healthcare product we have shipped changed shape after this.

Shadowing Personas Pathway map
Step 02

Regulatory and safety scoping

1 week

Intended purpose written down, the medical-device question answered, DTAC and DCB0129 obligations identified, data flows and residency agreed. This is the fortnight that decides the next six months.

Intended purpose UK MDR check Hazard log
Step 03

Free working prototype

5 – 10 days

A running prototype of the core journey, built from your brief, before any paid engagement. Yours to keep either way — it is the fastest way to find out whether we understood you.

Clickable No commitment Yours to keep
Step 04

Integration spike

1 – 3 weeks

Before the build is priced, we prove the hard integration end to end against a real endpoint or sandbox — FHIR, HL7 v2, GP Connect, a trust PAS. An estimate that assumes the integration works is not an estimate.

FHIR R4 GP Connect Sandbox proof
Step 05

Build, in two-week slices

8 – 24 weeks

Weekly demos, a working build at the end of every sprint, and the safety documentation written as the features land rather than reconstructed from memory at the end.

Weekly demos Living hazard log Audit trail
Step 06

Handover and support

Ongoing

Source, designs and IP transfer to you on payment. We stay on for patches, framework upgrades and feature work for as long as it is useful, and hand to your team when they are ready.

Full IP transfer SLA options Clean handover
Tech stack

Technologies
we work on.

The actual stack on healthcare engagements — interoperable, auditable, and boring where boring is a virtue.

Mobile
  • Swift · SwiftUI
  • Kotlin · Compose
  • React Native
  • Flutter
Web
  • TypeScript · React
  • Next.js
  • Vue
  • Accessible by default
Backend
  • Node.js · NestJS
  • Python · FastAPI
  • PHP · Laravel
  • .NET
Interoperability
  • HL7 FHIR R4
  • HL7 v2
  • GP Connect
  • SNOMED CT · dm+d
Data
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Encrypted at rest
  • UK data residency
Devices
  • Apple HealthKit
  • Google Health Connect
  • BLE wearables
  • Home monitoring kit
Assurance
  • DTAC responses
  • DCB0129 hazard log
  • DSPT alignment
  • UK GDPR · DPIA
AI, where it earns it
  • Triage support
  • Document summarisation
  • Coding assistance
  • Always human-in-the-loop
Selected work

Healthcare products
we've shipped.

Four from the wider portfolio — real products, not mock-ups.

Case study

InnovoCare

Care software built with Magora — the full story, including what changed along the way.

Case study

Doctor OTC

Connecting patients with over-the-counter guidance, designed around how people actually search for help.

Case study

Medical Tourism App

Treatment abroad, from enquiry to aftercare, across providers, languages and currencies.

Case study

Healthy diet app

Nutrition tracking that people keep using past week two — the only metric that matters in this category.

Frequently asked

The honest
questions.

Is my product a medical device?
Possibly, and it is the first thing worth settling. Under UK MDR, software intended to support a diagnostic or treatment decision can be a medical device needing UKCA marking, while a wellbeing, administrative or information product usually is not. The line turns on intended purpose and on how the result is worded to the user, so it is decided by positioning long before it is decided by code. Magora is not your regulatory advisor — what we do is raise it in the first fortnight, write the intended-purpose statement with you, and build to whichever answer your advisor gives.
Can you produce DTAC and DCB0129 evidence?
Yes — as the supplier side of it. We produce the technical responses a DTAC assessment asks for, maintain the hazard log through the build, and structure the system so the answers about audit logging, data residency and role separation are true rather than aspirational. DCB0129 also requires a named clinical safety officer; that is a clinical role and sits with you or with a specialist we can work alongside.
What does healthcare software cost?
It depends on scope, and on how much integration and assurance the product needs — those two are what make healthcare cost more than the same app in another sector. We start with a free working prototype and a written analysis from a senior Product Owner, no commitment. Our 2026 pricing (GBP): Product Discovery from £3,000, a Startup MVP from £10,000, a full production web or mobile project from £30,000. Typical London day rates run £30–£90 an hour, and full ownership of source, designs and IP transfers to you on payment.
How long does it take?
A working prototype lands in 5–10 working days. A production build typically runs 8–24 weeks from kickoff, and healthcare sits at the longer end when a real integration is involved — which is why we prove the integration in a spike before quoting the build, rather than discovering it in month three.
Can you integrate with EMIS, SystmOne or a trust system?
That depends far more on access than on engineering. The technical routes — FHIR R4, HL7 v2, GP Connect — are well travelled, and we build to them. What decides the timeline is whether you can obtain the partner agreements, sandbox access and assurance sign-off from the system supplier or the trust. We scope that honestly at the start, including the parts that are not in our gift, because an estimate that assumes access will be granted is not worth having.
Who owns the code and the data?
You own both. Magora's terms transfer ownership of bespoke work to the client on payment, and the repository is licensed to you from the first commit. Patient data is yours throughout and stays in the UK or EU by default; we work as processor under your controllership, with a DPIA and the data-flow documentation that goes with it.
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