Procurement document

Support model

Here's what you get when something breaks, when you have a question, or when you need a hand setting up a workflow. Broken down by tier, by channel, and by time of day. Save as PDF (⌘P / Ctrl+P) for your contract review.

Document version: 2026-05-14 · Latest version always at medicarehis.com/support

§1 · Channels

How to reach us

Email — primary

[email protected] for general support, [email protected] for security/disclosure (RFC 9116 contact), [email protected] for invoice queries. Every email is acknowledged within the response-time SLA. Customer-specific email aliases (e.g. [email protected]) provisioned at Hospital tier+.

Phone — Hospital tier+

Founder mobile + WhatsApp during business hours (08:00–18:00 Accra time, Mon–Fri). Emergency P1 line available 24×7 for Premium-support customers (Hospital + premium uplift; included for Enterprise). Calls answered or returned within the response-time SLA.

WhatsApp — Ghana-friendly

We share a WhatsApp Business number with each customer at onboarding. It's the same number as the founder's mobile. Good for quick questions, and for sending a screenshot or photo when something's off on the clinical floor. We don't run P1 incidents through it — those go to email or phone so there's a clear record.

In-portal — Stage 2

Coming at Stage 2, once we hire the implementation engineer: an in-app "Get help" button that opens a ticket straight from the user's session and attaches the relevant audit-log entries and recent actions for you. It's not live yet. For now, tickets come in by email.

§2 · Coverage by tier

What each pricing tier includes

Capability Starter Hospital Enterprise / Premium uplift
Email support Business hours Priority queue 24×7
Phone supportBusiness hours24×7 (P1/P2)
WhatsAppBusiness hours, best-effortBusiness hoursBusiness hours + on-call escalation
Dedicated CSM1 hour / monthNamed, with quarterly business reviews
P1 acknowledgement SLA4 hours business-hours1 hour business-hours; 4 hours OOH30 min, 24×7
P1 first-fix SLA7 days7 days24 hours
Quarterly business reviewOptional Standard
Custom integration supportPaid project1 integration / year included3 integrations / year included
On-site support visitsPaid travel + day rate1 included on go-live2 per year included; additional at negotiated rate

A premium support uplift on top of the Hospital tier gives you 24×7 phone coverage with Enterprise-tier P1 SLAs. It's worth it if you run 24-hour wards (ED, ICU, theatre, labour) where someone has to be reachable after hours. Talk to us for the current uplift fee.

§3 · Escalation path

What happens when an issue won't resolve

  1. Level 1 — Initial response. Support handles the issue within the response-time SLA. Most issues close here.
  2. Level 2 — Founder engagement. If it's not fixed within the first-fix SLA, or you ask us to escalate, the founder steps in directly. At Stage 1 that's quick, because the founder is L1 too. At Stage 2 and beyond there's a defined handoff.
  3. Level 3 — Clinical Safety Officer. For issues with clinical-safety implications (potential or actual patient harm), the named CSO (currently founder + clinical advisor on retainer; Stage 2 dedicated CSO function) is engaged. Per the clinical-safety policy, this happens within 4 hours regardless of business hours.
  4. Level 4 — Executive escalation. For commercial disputes, contract issues, or unresolved Critical-severity matters, the founder + customer's senior executive engage directly. Goal: resolution within 5 business days.
  5. Customer-initiated escalation. Any customer can request escalation at any time via email to [email protected]. The founder responds within 24 hours.
§4 · Training

What's included with every paid plan

Admin train-the-trainer

2 live sessions (60–90 min each) for your hospital admin / IT lead. Cover: tenant configuration, user management, ward catalog, formulary, payer setup, reporting. Recorded for new-hire reference.

Department staff training

1 live session per department (60 min). Reception, OPD, consulting, lab, pharmacy, billing, ward, ED. Hospital-tier customers: department-specific sessions. Starter-tier: combined "all-staff" overview.

Knowledge base

Self-serve documentation at docs.medicarehis.com (Stage 2 — published Q3 2026). Today: PDF user guides delivered at onboarding, updated quarterly. Search-as-you-type help inside the app is Stage 2 capability.

Video walkthroughs

3–5 minute task-specific videos for the most common workflows (register patient, write a prescription, submit a claim, perform discharge). Library accessible by all users.

New-hire onboarding

When your hospital hires new clinical staff after go-live, they self-onboard via the recorded admin and department-staff sessions. For 5+ new hires, we offer a live refresher session at no charge for Hospital-tier customers.

Annual workflow review

Enterprise-tier: an annual workflow review with your clinical and IT leadership. We look at how the system's actually being used, find the features nobody's touching, and suggest what to change. It's usually the most useful hour of the year.

§5 · On-call posture

Who answers when something breaks at 02:00

§6 · What we don't do

Honest scope limits

Want to talk through a support model that fits you?

Enterprise and group customers shape support to their contract: a dedicated CSM, named on-call engineers, support in your region's languages, and escalation paths you define. Book a call and we'll work it out.

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