Something has happened to health IT software.
You used to own it—buy it once, install it, and run it. It was yours. Today, most software for healthcare is rented through subscriptions, trapping organizations in endless payment cycles. When your payments stop, your software stops. This subscription model forces a "one size fits all" approach, prioritizing vendor profits over adaptability.
This fundamentally clashes with healthcare's diverse, complex, and evolving needs.
The emergence of digital health platforms and open standards like openEHR and FHIR promised a solution. These standards were meant to give you flexibility, make systems work together, and free you from vendor lock-in. But instead, most platform vendors simply adopted the same subscription pricing as the incumbents.
The result? You still don’t own your software. You also have to spend heavily on building on these platforms to match your requirements while still paying an ever increasing subscription fee. Eventually, proprietary APIs start creeping in, making it harder and harder for you to switch vendors—this by design. The business model of Software-as-a-Service relies on locking you in.
At Medblocks, we believe in a different approach. We've always championed health data platforms that use open standards like openEHR and FHIR. We believe healthcare organizations should own their platforms, not rent them. Modern infrastructure has made self-hosting and managing these platforms more accessible and cost-effective than ever. Your data and tools should be fully yours—to customize it, move it, and host it anywhere.
But ownership isn’t just about having the code—it’s about creating something that works for you. True ownership means building a platform tailored to your goals and challenges, and that’s only possible through close collaboration, and building together.
The question is: what's the best way to build together?
Hourly billing creates the wrong incentives. It rewards time spent rather than results achieved. This often leads to slower progress, and eventually, higher costs. It's not a system designed for efficiency or shared success.
Milestone-based pricing isn't any better. In healthcare, where requirements constantly evolve, fixed milestones create endless paperwork and back-and-forth negotiations instead of addressing real needs.We wanted to do our best work while offering an ethical pricing model rooted in openness and the principles of health data platforms.
That’s why we created Medblocks Sprint—a flat-fee Development-as-a-Service subscription for the modern healthcare technology era. Here’s our offer:
For $10,000/month (or $8,000/month with annual payment), we’ll collaborate to perfect your platform. At the end, you own everything: code, platform, and customizations. Optional maintenance and updates available for $2,000/month. Cancel anytime, no strings attached.
This flat-fee subscription model for development lets us focus on delivering real results, not tracking hours or negotiating every change. With transparency and the freedom to cancel anytime, we’re driven to get it right so you continue working with us.
Here's what you get with a Medblocks Sprint subscription:
- A dedicated team of developers, a project manager, a clinical expert, a DevOps professional, and a UI/UX designer
- Transparent communication and access to tools like Slack and Asana to keep you involved at every step.
- Weekly progress updates and check-ins to keep everything on track
- Unlimited revisions and scope adjustments to fit your needs
- Unlimited consultation calls with any member of our team
- Full access to the codebase of all our products including - Medblocks Platform, Medblocks UI Pro, and openFHIR Pro
- Complete ownership of everything we deliver, including code, tools and customizations
- Flat 80% discount on all Medblocks Bootcamps for your team members
In short, if it can be done, we'll build it for you. Once we do, it's yours. Does that resonate with you?
Sidharth Ramesh
CEO, Medblocks
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