A Microsoft global partner finalist in 2025 for ground-breaking agentic work in the Health & Life Sciences industry.
The challenge
We start every engagement by Envisioning, see what that looks like. Then we get to work:
What we build
How this looks at Envision, Build, and Evolve.
Modern web and agentic interfaces on cloud with the security and privacy baselines healthcare requires.
Via developClinician-focussed, patient-facing AI adoption and usage where it offers a real impact.
Via engageA reporting layer that survives the next inspection and the next regulator.
Via operateour work
Capital Hospitals
A bespoke, five-year-battery monitoring device that watches pharmaceutical fridge temperature and humidity, and reports breaches to the right people automatically.
Practice
First Digital IoT
Over five years, First Digital turned Western Cape Blood Services into Africa’s first fully digital, end-to-end blood-donation ecosystem, a Microsoft-recognised, AI-powered platform that registers donors 60% faster and answers them around the clock.
Practice
Digital & App Innovation
Project Exodus
A cross-platform mobile app that brings Project Exodus’s life-recovery methodology to a potentially global audience, on both the App Store and Google Play.
Practice
Cloud-native app development
Hospital Group
A disciplined virtual team and a custom Azure DevOps blueprint that brought consistent delivery to one of South Africa’s largest hospital groups.
Practice
Azure DevOps
National Health Laboratory
A Fast-Track rollout of Microsoft 365 across the NHLS, getting a traditionally on-premises national lab service ready for secure remote work during the pandemic.
Practice
Microsoft 365 Fast-Track
Busamed
A custom Power Apps solution that captures patient feedback at discharge across Busamed’s hospitals, with SAP integration and live Power BI insight for managers.
Power Platform
AI innovation in Health & Life Sciences
AI in healthcare and life sciences has to be useful and visibly safe. We start with research and back-office copilots before anything touches the patient.
AI-native software development, every step. Our APEX framework is modular, relies on cloud or private token factories, and automates the software lifecycle from discovery transcripts, to feature backlogs, to architecture, build, and delivery. Secure, quality-driven, and fast.
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