The patient record, the day-to-day running of the service, and the governance — in one place, on terms you can read before you ring anyone.
commvita is a health and care platform. It launches today.
It does three jobs that are normally done by three separate systems. It holds the patient record. It runs the day-to-day operations — beds, waiting lists, staffing, discharge. And it carries the governance: incidents, board papers, risks, training, information rules.
Most organisations buy those three separately and then pay to join them up.
Nobody sat down and chose that arrangement. It built up over twenty years, one purchase at a time.
The expensive part is not the software. It is the joins. Every join needs an interface, a safety case, somewhere to run it, and people to keep it alive when either end changes.
The clearest sign something is wrong is how many people spend their week moving information from one system into another by hand. No other real-time industry puts up with that.
Not a suite of products with connectors between them. One record, read by everything above it — which is why the numbers in the governance agree with the numbers in the clinical work.
Running the service day to day
It shows where patients are waiting, which part of the system is causing it, and what that queue is costing — not just a chart of the same numbers.
The information arrives while you can still do something about it, attached to the action it suggests, rather than in a report about last month.
Governance, and the paperwork you are inspected on
Report one, and the platform starts the clocks and the follow-up itself instead of waiting for somebody to remember.
Agendas, papers, decisions, votes and actions — with a record of who decided what, and when, that cannot be quietly edited afterwards.
The registers you get inspected on: data protection, freedom of information on the legal clock, what you keep and for how long, and what data you actually hold.
The risks that could stop you achieving what you set out to do, with the gaps written down as gaps rather than smoothed over.
The right regulator, the right inspection rules and the right professional register for your country — rather than England's applied everywhere by default.
Who is trained, who is registered to practise, and what runs out when — worked out from the dates rather than typed in by somebody.
A saving cannot be signed off until somebody has assessed what it does to quality, safety, waiting times and fairness.
Savings plans where the benefit has to be evidenced, and where the person who owns a saving cannot be the one who confirms it happened.
The record, and the terms you buy on
General practice, community services, mental health, social care, pharmacy and dentistry in a single record, so the person is one person rather than six files.
When boards merge or boundaries move, last year's figures still add up, because the platform holds your structure as something with dates rather than as a fixed list.
The price is published rather than quoted. You host it yourself. Getting your data out is a feature we built, not a clause we wrote.
This matters more than the list above. People who have to live with the consequences start from flow and governance, because that is what eats the week. People building something to sell start from a feature list, because that is what wins a scoring matrix.
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
A serving health chief information officer, and a non-executive director at an NHS foundation trust. Started the roughly $1.5bn acquisition of EMIS while running IT for a health business.
Co-founder, data and analytics
Chief data and analytics officer at an NHS trust and an integrated care board. Named in the HSJ 100 most influential people in health, 2025.
Co-founder, commercial
Chairs the National Council at the Data Observatory. Commercial director of DATA-CAN, the Health Data Research UK hub for cancer. Expert in residence at the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering, King's College London. Built the UK government's digital health export offer, working with commercial teams in more than 90 countries.
Two of the three still hold working posts inside health systems. That is the claim, and you can check it.
No customer has been live on this for a year. What we can show you is the platform working, and exactly which parts are running on real data.
We think a single platform can take about 80% out of what these three systems cost together. That is what we are aiming at, and nobody has banked it yet. The price, on the other hand, is not an aim.
Where a live feed from your systems is not connected, the figures on screen are examples. The platform says which is which on the screen rather than leaving you to guess.
commvita shows recorded information and helps people decide. It does not make clinical decisions. Those stay with the clinician.
We build to openEHR record shapes and write to a real openEHR repository. We do not ship the full openEHR model or its query language, so we do not describe ourselves as openEHR-native.
£1 per Commvita Flow Edition instance
One Commvita Flow Edition instance means one deployment for your organisation, with every environment included — production, test, training and disaster recovery. Not per seat. Paid support is optional. It is not free.
Priced per head of population
Governance and assurance for the same population are included. You are not charged twice for governance you have already paid for.
Your own tenancy
It runs in your own cloud account or your own data centre. Your data stays where you put it.
That is the whole of it. A platform that does the three jobs together, built by people who have had to live with them being apart.
There is a lot more detail behind this: the full list of what it does, the standards it meets, what installing it involves. We are happy to walk you through any of it, or show you the thing working.
Reply to whoever sent you this and we will arrange it.