I've spent the last several years sitting at the back of hospital IT rooms across Ghana, the UK, and the diaspora — and watching the same scene play out in every one of them.
A brilliant clinician trying to do their best work, fighting software that fights back. Spreadsheets that crash on the busiest day of the month. A reception desk that can't find a returning patient's chart. A claim that bounces because one ICD code was off by a digit. A ward where the handover lives on a sheet of paper that gets folded into a pocket and quietly lost between shifts.
The cost isn't measured in hours. It's measured in patients sent home with the wrong follow-up plan, in claims written off because nobody had time to fix them, in nurses choosing paper over the system because the system was slower than paper.
Why MediCare HIS exists
Hospital IT in Africa shouldn't be a downgrade. The same hospitals that pioneered task-shifting, mobile money payments, and community-led care should be running on software that's better than what their counterparts in London and Boston use — not five years behind.
So we built MediCare HIS the way I wished a system had existed when I sat behind a reception desk, walked a ward round, processed a claim, or watched a power cut wipe an hour's work. One platform, every department, end-to-end. Cloud, on-premise, or a server installed inside your building. Offline-tolerant. NHIS-ready. Built by people who've sat at the desk and done the work it's meant to handle.
Three promises
- We don't sell black boxes. Your data is yours. Export it any time, in plain formats, no questions asked.
- We don't disappear after onboarding. The phone number on this page is mine. If something breaks at 3 a.m. on a ward, I'd rather hear from you than read about it later.
- We don't price for the West and bill in Africa. Pricing is shaped to your hospital's reality — bed count, claim volume, deployment choice — and quoted in the currency you actually earn in.
Where we are now
The platform is live, hardened, and ready for its first eight launch hospitals. We're not chasing a unicorn round; we're chasing a system that actually works on the ground in Accra, Kumasi, Lagos, Nairobi, Kampala, Kigali, Abidjan — and that earns its keep paying for itself by closing the claims gap and shrinking the admin tax on every visit.
If any of that resonates, talk to me directly. The intro call is 30 minutes. The follow-up quote is itemised and in writing. There's no salesperson — just me, the system, and your hospital's actual workflow.
— Fynn Aggrey
Founder & Lead Developer · MediCare HIS