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Healthcare Software Development For European Health Teams From €2,000/mo
GDPR-scoped patient apps, clinical tools and health platforms built by a dedicated developer, or a small dedicated team, at €2,000 per month per developer for 160-172 hours of full-time, exclusive work. EU VAT reverse-charge, a signed DPA on day zero, and your data on EU infrastructure. Monthly billing and a 7-day risk-free trial.
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Healthcare Software Development From Empiric Infotech LLP
Empiric Infotech LLP is a remote healthcare software development company working with clinics, digital-health startups and health SaaS teams across the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and the Nordics: one dedicated developer, or a small dedicated team, full-time and exclusive, in your GitHub or GitLab org and your EU cloud account. Two of our health products were built for Swiss and Austrian clients, so European data-protection expectations are the default rather than an adaptation. Under GDPR, health data is a special category under Article 9, which changes the engineering rather than just the paperwork: lawful basis has to be modelled, data-subject access and erasure have to be real features rather than a manual process, and processing records have to be something your DPO can actually read. We build to that, work inside your DPA as your processor, and keep data on EU infrastructure. The engagement is €2,000 per month per developer with EU VAT reverse-charge and a 7-day risk-free trial.
What a healthcare software development engagement delivers
A running health product in your cloud account, a developer who keeps shipping it, and a senior lead who reviews and tests every release. Not a compliance certificate, and not a slide deck.
Patient and clinician-facing products
Patient apps, clinician dashboards, intake and triage flows, care-plan tracking, appointment and telehealth surfaces, and the back-office that keeps them fed. Built for the two very different users a health product always has: the patient who opens it once a week, and the clinician who lives in it all day and will abandon anything that costs them a click.
A data model that survives an audit
PHI separated from operational data, field-level encryption where it belongs, an append-only audit trail of who read and wrote what, retention and deletion rules that are code rather than policy documents, and role-based access that a compliance reviewer can actually read. This is the part that is expensive to retrofit and cheap to get right at the start.
Built to your compliance requirements
We have built HIPAA-compliant platforms (EndoDNA and TherapyCue are both live). We build to the regime you operate under, whether that is HIPAA, GDPR, or your own internal security policy, and we work inside your BAA and your DPA. The certification and the regulatory relationship stay yours: we are your engineering team, not your compliance authority, and we will tell you plainly when something needs a specialist we are not.
Integrations with the systems clinicians already use
HL7 v2 and FHIR interfaces, EHR and practice-management integrations, lab and diagnostics feeds, e-prescribing and pharmacy links, wearables and device data through Apple HealthKit and Google Health Connect, and payment and claims where the product needs them. Health products rarely fail on the feature list; they fail on the seam between systems.
AI where it earns its place
Real-time transcription, clinical note generation, retrieval over patient history, triage assistance and health assistants, built with an explicit human-in-the-loop boundary and an audit trail on every model call. TherapyCue does exactly this in production. We will also tell you when the honest answer is that a model should not be in that decision path at all.
Your code in your repo, your app in your cloud
We work inside your GitHub or GitLab org and your cloud account from day one, on whichever region your data residency rules demand. The code, the infrastructure, the data and the audit logs are yours throughout. There is nothing to claw back at the end and no vendor lock to negotiate out of.
How we scope a healthcare software engagement
Health builds go wrong in the first fortnight, when someone decides the compliance work can be added later. We front-load it instead.
1. What the product does, and to whom
A scoping call on your hours: who the users are, what clinical or wellness job the product does, whether it touches PHI at all, and where the regulatory line sits. Plenty of health and wellness products never touch protected data, and knowing that on day one saves months of unnecessary engineering.
2. The data and compliance boundary
Before any feature work: what data you hold, where it may live, who may read it, how long you keep it, and what your auditor will ask for. This produces the data model, the access-control design and the audit-log design, and it is the single decision that most determines what the product costs to change in year two.
3. A written scope, team proposal and flat price
Within 24 hours: the scope, the stack, the integration surface, who is on the team, and a flat monthly price per developer. No estimate ranges that quietly become change orders later.
4. A 7-day risk-free trial
Your developer starts within 48 hours on an agreed first deliverable. Day 7 is a real decision point, with a full refund if it is not a fit and a no-cost developer swap inside that window.
Healthcare software development for EU teams from €2,000 per month, per developer
One dedicated developer is €2,000 per month for 160-172 hours of full-time, exclusive work in your repo and your EU cloud account, with a senior lead reviewing and testing every release. Billed monthly in EUR with the EU VAT reverse-charge and a signed DPA, no setup fee and no recruitment fee.
Hourly plan
- A dedicated developer, exclusive to you while you have hours booked
- Pay as you go - billed by the hour, time tracked, a weekly report
- Best for short, defined work; no monthly commitment
- Code review and pre-delivery testing by a senior lead, built in
Monthly plan
- A dedicated developer, full-time and exclusive - 160-172 hours a month
- The best value for an ongoing engagement
- Your repo, your cloud account, your tools
- Code review and pre-delivery testing by a senior lead on every release
- 7-day risk-free trial, monthly billing, cancel with 7 days notice
Dedicated team
- A dedicated team - developers plus a senior team lead who reviews and tests every release
- Add a developer (and a designer where the build needs UI/UX work) at the same rate
- Best for long-term, multi-track work; add a developer in 48 hours, no re-contracting
What the first 90 days of a healthcare engagement look like
A dedicated engagement is a rolling thing, not a Gantt chart. This is the usual shape of the first three months on a health product.
- Week 1
Onboarding and the data boundary
Repo and cloud access, a working local environment, and the first pull request reviewed and merged. In parallel, the PHI boundary decision: what is protected data, where it lives, and who can reach it. Day 7 is the decision point on the trial.
- Month 1
The clinical core, in production
The primary flow live behind real authentication, with role-based access, the audit trail writing from the first commit rather than bolted on in month four, and CI green. By the end of month one there is a product a clinician can log into and a data model your compliance reviewer can read.
- Month 2
Integrations and the second user
The seams: FHIR or HL7 where you need them, EHR or practice-management integration, lab or device feeds, and the back-office surface. This is also where the clinician-side UI gets its first real workflow pass, because the patient app and the clinical tool are two products wearing one name.
- Month 3
Hardening, then ahead of the roadmap
A security pass on the obvious surfaces, access-control review, penetration-test remediation if you are running one, performance under real data volume, and a real release. From here the developer is ahead of your backlog rather than behind it.
A monthly dedicated team vs a European healthcare software agency, a freelancer, or an in-house hire
| Empiric Infotech (monthly dedicated team) | Healthcare software agency (fixed price) | Freelance marketplace | Build an in-house team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | €2,000/mo per developer, flat, VAT reverse-charge | €70K-€250K fixed bid for a comparable build | €40-€120/hr | €90K-€130K salary + employer contributions |
| Health-domain experience | 8 shipped health products, 2 HIPAA-compliant clinical platforms | Usually yes, and priced accordingly | Varies per contractor; you verify it | Whatever you can hire in your market |
| Compliance engineering | Built into the engagement - audit trail, access control, retention | Usually scoped as a separate workstream | On you to specify and to check | Your own process, once you have hired for it |
| Who owns the code, infra and audit logs | You - your repo, your cloud account, from day one | You, on final payment (delivery sometimes staged) | You per contract - check the IP-assignment clause | You |
| Time to start | 48 hours | 4-10 weeks (proposal, SOW, security review, kickoff) | Days to weeks | 3-5 months (search, offer, notice, onboarding) |
| When the scope changes | Re-prioritise the backlog - no change order | Change order, re-quote, re-sign | Renegotiate the rate or the hours | Reassign internally - if you have the bench |
| After launch | The same developer keeps shipping - features, fixes, audits | A new maintenance retainer, or you are on your own | Re-hire, or the codebase goes cold | The team stays - if they stay |
| Invoicing and tax | One monthly invoice in EUR; EU VAT reverse-charge; DPA signed | Per agency terms | Per contractor | Payroll, employer contributions, works council where applicable |
Figures are typical European market ranges, not quotes. A fixed-price agency build of a comparable health platform commonly lands in the €70K-€250K range before change orders; a fully loaded in-house senior developer runs roughly €7.5K-€11K per month.
Working hours and meeting availability
Our team works 09:30 AM - 07:30 PM IST and a project manager is on call 07:30 AM - 10:30 PM IST, Monday to Friday. Here is exactly when that lands for clients in the US, Europe and Australia, your region first.
UK & Ireland (London, Dublin) - full team online 5:00 AM - 3:00 PM, project manager 3:00 AM - 6:00 PM.Most of your working day overlaps ours - live standups, pair-coding and same-hour replies.
Central Europe (Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid) - full team online 6:00 AM - 4:00 PM, project manager 4:00 AM - 7:00 PM.Most of your working day overlaps ours - live standups, pair-coding and same-hour replies.
US Eastern (New York, Boston, Atlanta) - full team online 12:00 AM - 10:00 AM, project manager 10:00 PM - 1:00 PM (next day).
US Pacific (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle) - full team online 9:00 PM - 7:00 AM (next day), project manager 7:00 PM - 10:00 AM (next day).
Australia East (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane) - full team online 2:00 PM - 12:00 AM (next day), project manager 12:00 PM - 3:00 AM (next day).
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Why European health teams pick a dedicated team over a healthcare software agency
The expensive part of a European health product is not the first release. It is month eight, when a data-subject access request arrives, or a hospital procurement team asks for the processing record, and the answer has to come out of a system designed for it. GDPR treats health data as a special category under Article 9, which means erasure, portability and access have to be engineered as features. Retrofitting them costs several times what building them in does.
A fixed-price European health agency build of a comparable platform typically runs €70,000 to €250,000 before the first change order, and a fully loaded in-house senior engineer in Germany, the Netherlands or the Nordics runs roughly €7,500 to €11,000 a month once you add employer contributions. A dedicated Empiric developer is €2,000 a month for 160-172 hours of full-time exclusive work, with EU VAT reverse-charge and a DPA in place from day zero.
We have shipped eight health and healthcare products, including two for Swiss clients and one for an Austrian client, so European expectations around data residency and consent are the starting assumption. EndoDNA and TherapyCue are both HIPAA-compliant clinical platforms, which is the same engineering discipline applied to a different regime. What we do not do is sell you a compliance certification or claim we can put a device through MDR clearance. We build to the regime you operate under and leave the regulatory relationship with you.
Recent work for teams across the UK, Germany, France, NL, and Spain
EndoDNA - genetics and lab data for functional medicine clinics
A HIPAA-compliant multi-tenant SaaS platform for functional medicine clinics, built for a United States client by a single Empiric developer. Patient lab results, genetic data and an AI-powered health assistant in one workspace, on a parent-licensee model with custom-branded subdomains for each clinic.
Read case studyTherapyCue - AI clinical assistant for mental-health practices
A HIPAA-compliant clinical assistant for therapists and counsellors, built for a Canadian client by a single Empiric developer. It transcribes live therapy sessions in real time, offers clinical suggestions during the session, and generates structured SOAP notes afterwards.
Read case studyMy Pocket Therapist - AI-powered virtual therapy
An AI-powered virtual therapy product built for a Canadian client by a two-person Empiric team, covering the app, the conversational layer and the backend behind it.
Read case studyNutrinova - AI calorie counter and nutrition tracking
An AI nutrition and calorie-tracking product built for a Swiss client by a three-person Empiric team, covering image-based food recognition, the tracking engine and subscription billing.
Read case studyOur Hiring and Engagement Model
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Health data is a special category under Article 9, so the engineering changes, not just the paperwork. We model the lawful basis explicitly, build data-subject access, portability and erasure as real features rather than a manual back-office process, keep a processing record your DPO can read, and design retention and deletion as code. We act as your processor under a signed DPA and keep data on EU infrastructure in the region you nominate.
On EU infrastructure, in your own cloud account: AWS eu-west or eu-central, Azure Europe, GCP Europe, Hetzner, OVHcloud or Scaleway. We work inside your accounts rather than ours, so residency is something you configure and can verify, not something you take on trust from a vendor.
No, and be wary of a development vendor who says yes. If your product is regulated as a medical device under the EU MDR, conformity assessment is a regulatory process you own, usually with a notified body and a specialist consultant. What we do is build the software to the design controls, documentation and traceability your pathway requires, and work alongside whoever is running it. We will tell you early if we think your product crosses that line.
Yes. FHIR and HL7 v2 interfaces, EHR and practice-management integrations, lab and diagnostics feeds, e-prescribing links, and device or wearable data through Apple HealthKit and Google Health Connect. Integration is usually where a health build gets expensive, so we scope the seam explicitly before feature work rather than discovering it in month three.
One dedicated developer for 160-172 hours a month, full-time and exclusive to you, working in your GitHub or GitLab org and your cloud account, with a senior team lead reviewing and testing every delivery, billed monthly, with a 7-day risk-free trial. Add a developer, or a designer for clinical-UI work, at the same flat €2,000 per month each.
Yes, and it is often a much simpler build. Several of our health products, including Nutrinova, My Ayur, Laughly and DRT, are wellness rather than clinical, and most never touch protected health data at all. Establishing that on day one is worth doing, because a wellness product engineered as though it were a clinical one costs more and ships slower for no benefit.
You do. Your GitHub or GitLab org, your cloud account, your domain, your data, from day one. We work inside your accounts rather than ours, so there is nothing to transfer at the end and nothing held hostage in a dispute.
Within 48 hours of sign-off: a scoping call, a written scope and team proposal, then onboarding on day one. The first 7 days are a risk-free trial with a full refund if it is not a fit and a no-cost developer swap inside that window. After that it is monthly billing with 7 days notice to stop, no auto-renewal and no minimum term.
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