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Healthcare software development for clinical, pharma and staffing teams

By , Founder & CEO, Apex36Updated

In short

Apex36 is a healthcare software development company for clinical, pharma and healthcare staffing teams. We build healthcare workflow automation, healthcare AI solutions and SaaS built for HIPAA-regulated workflows, with audit trails and data kept in your own cloud account. Projects start from $8,000, and you own the code.

Key facts

Starting priceFrom $8,000 per project
Typical timelineDiscovery typically in under a week; first shippable milestone typically in 1 to 3 weeks
Engagement modelFixed-scope project, or a monthly team
Healthcare clients inGermany (United Medical), Australia (a pharma enterprise customer)
MarketsUS, UK, Australia, Singapore, UAE
StackNext.js, React, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS (CDK, Fargate, Lambda, Bedrock), Azure, Microsoft 365 and Outlook

Healthcare software development company

We build software for teams that work with patients, physicians and drug-safety data: staffing platforms, pharma workflow tools, screening software and AI that reads clinical and regulatory documents. We have run healthcare engagements as monthly teams for years: a German healthcare company since 2023 and a pharma workflow SaaS since 2024. The same founder-led team designs, builds and runs the software.

Custom healthcare software development services

We build custom healthcare software when an off-the-shelf product does not fit the way your team works:

  • Healthcare app development: web apps and portals for clinicians, staff and partners, with role-based access from day one
  • Staffing and scheduling platforms that match physicians to shifts and contracts
  • Pharma and drug-safety tools for screening, triage and reporting
  • Intake, assessment and reporting flows for clinical screening
  • The cloud infrastructure underneath, in your own AWS or Azure account

Each build starts with a short discovery, then a first shippable milestone, typically in 1 to 3 weeks.

Healthcare workflow automation

Healthcare operations run on inboxes, spreadsheets and hand-kept trackers. We turn them into software with an audit trail:

  • Pharmacovigilance inbox triage: enterprise mailboxes classified and routed into the right safety folders, with a log per email
  • Literature screening: weekly searches across journals and regulator sources, recorded the way your regulator expects
  • Contract and placement workflows: hospital-doctor contracts and staffing steps moved out of email threads
  • Assessment and intake flows: structured intake and reporting for clinical screening

Healthcare AI solutions

AI in healthcare has to show its work. Our healthcare AI quotes the source behind each verdict, downgrades a verdict when the evidence is incomplete, and sends uncertain cases to a person. We run models inside your own cloud account, for example Claude on AWS Bedrock over a private VPC endpoint, and we test them on your own examples before launch. Where a small model does one narrow job well, we fine-tune and benchmark it against a larger one.

Built for HIPAA-regulated workflows

We build software for HIPAA-regulated workflows with the controls your compliance team asks for:

  • Data stays in your cloud account, reached over private networking
  • Role-based access with invite-only accounts and access logs
  • Append-only audit trails, where a correction is a new record and nothing is edited in place
  • De-identification of personal health information before AI processing, where needed
  • Logging of who viewed what, including access to sensitive fields

Our pharmacovigilance work for a pharma enterprise customer is one example: safety-mail triage and literature screening with append-only audit trails, invite-only access and logged access to sensitive fields. Compliance sign-off belongs to your organisation. We build to the controls your compliance team sets and document how each one is met. For EU clients we build for GDPR, with EU-region hosting.

Healthcare staffing software: United Medical

For United Medical in Germany, we built the platform that places locum and salaried physicians with hospitals and clinics: a four-package Next.js monorepo on PostgreSQL and Redis, localised in German, with admin tools for contracts and schedules. We have run it as a monthly retainer since 2023.

Teams searching for healthcare contract management software usually want a ready-made product. We build the custom version: for United Medical, hospital-doctor contracts and schedules live inside the staffing platform itself, so a placement and its contract are one record instead of two systems.

Pharma software development and drug-safety tools

Through our long-running engagement with a pharma enterprise customer, a pharma workflow SaaS, we have built pharmacovigilance inbox automation for a global pharma company, literature-screening software for an Australian pharmacovigilance operator, and the multi-account AWS infrastructure the platform runs on. Each is a separate build with its own case study.

Healthcare IT consulting

Not every healthcare team needs a build first. Our healthcare IT consulting starts with a free AI readiness assessment, with a written report by email within 48 hours, that names the one workflow worth automating. We also review existing architecture and cloud set-up, and the founder can act as a fractional CTO from $5,000 a month. Advice comes from the people who would build it.

What healthcare software costs

Healthcare projects start from $8,000 per project, and a first automated workflow can start at $5,000. Regulated audit trails, several integrations or private model hosting move the price up. Model and cloud costs are billed to your own accounts. You get a fixed quote in writing after discovery. See pricing.

Proof from our work

What clients say about working with us

“He excels in his work, is professional in demeanor, and extremely reliable. Highly recommended.”
Naim B.Managing Director, Medical SaaS

Frequently asked questions

A healthcare software development company designs and builds software for providers, pharma and health businesses, such as staffing platforms, workflow tools and AI that reads clinical or regulatory documents. Apex36 also runs what it builds, as a monthly team.

Yes. We build software for HIPAA-regulated workflows with data kept in your cloud account, role-based access, access logs and append-only audit trails. Compliance sign-off stays with your organisation; we build to your compliance team's controls and document them.

At Apex36, healthcare projects start from $8,000, and a first automated workflow from $5,000. Regulated audit trails, integrations and private model hosting add to that. You get a fixed quote in writing after discovery.

Yes, with limits. We run models inside your own cloud account, require a quoted source for each verdict, and send uncertain cases to a person. We test the model on your own examples before launch and log every call.

In accounts you control. We deploy into your own AWS, Azure or GCP account, in the region you choose, and model costs are billed to you. For EU clients, such as United Medical in Germany, we host in the EU and build for GDPR.

Common first candidates are inbox triage, literature and safety screening, contract and placement workflows, intake forms and weekly reporting. We start with a free AI readiness assessment to find the one worth automating first.

Yes. Through a pharma enterprise customer, a pharma workflow SaaS we have worked with since July 2024, we have built inbox automation for a global pharma company and literature-screening software for an Australian pharmacovigilance operator. Both are pilots.

Yes. We start with a free AI readiness assessment and a written report within 48 hours, and we review architecture and cloud set-up. The founder can also act as a fractional CTO from $5,000 a month.

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Find out what to build first

Start with the free AI readiness assessment and get a written report by email, or book a 30-minute strategy call with the founder.