Building better care on a record health systems own Applications health systems build themselves
Better Platform is the governed clinical data layer that European health systems own, and the fastest way for you to build the applications and AI that run on it.
A proven foundation
for healthcare
40M+patient records held
1,000+ healthcare organisations
30+countriesOne platform for
regions, hospitals and partners
Whether you lead a region, a hospital or deliver for one, you start from the same governed record.
Regions
You lead a regional or national programme: one record, one plan, one platform across every organisation.
Hospitals
You lead a hospital or a trust and want to own the record, not rent it.
Partners
You implement, integrate, teach or sell software to health systems.
Six capabilities in one platform
Better Platform is the governed clinical data layer that European health systems own, and the fastest way to build the applications and AI that run on it.
Data management
One structured, governed record. Clinical in openEHR, operational in FHIR.
Data integration
Data in from the systems you run and the ones you are retiring, data out through open interfaces and European exchange, through the Interoperability Hub.
Security and governance
Access control and audit to the field, for every user and every tool. Nothing is admitted unless the health system admits it.
Care planning
Care plans, tasks and pathways defined once and run across the whole region.
AI assistance
Because the record is structured and governed, any AI tool you admit works on data it can understand, under rules it cannot bypass.
App building
From a request or a clinical model to a governed application, bound to your data at the exact field. Built by your informatics team, reviewed by your clinicians the same afternoon.
Open by design and built to evolve
Powered by open standards
openEHR and FHIR, because health data should be reusable, vendor-neutral and built to last. Open standards mean integration, collaboration and freedom of choice.
Ready for AI
Structured, coded, governed data is what AI can use. openEHR is the schema: every field has meaning, units and provenance, so a model knows what a blood pressure is. Data that follows the patient across systems, and outlives every application.
Designed for care teams
From the medication chart to the applications informaticians build with their clinicians, everything is designed with care professionals, so they can focus on care, not on software.
Built for change
Health systems must adapt, not restart. A modular platform lets organisations modernise at their own pace: evolution over replacement, no big-bang migrations.
From a clinician’s sentence to a governed application
Describe it and AI drafts it, or point and click
A request in plain language or a clinical model in. One application out, whichever way you start.
Bound to your data at the exact field
Validated by the repository before it writes. It knows what a blood pressure is, because your clinical model does.
Governed from the first preview
Login, data access, audit, error handling, versioning and upgrades are the platform’s job, done once. AI composes configuration on the platform’s tools, never infrastructure code, so the things that must not go wrong are not generated at all.
Yours, the same afternoon
Built in the morning, reviewed with the clinicians after lunch, published as an ordinary application in your own environment, independent of the tools that built it.
One platform
multiple solutions
Each solution is a door onto the same governed record. Use one, combine several, or build your own solution. They all share the same record, APIs, and security.
Medication management proven across the NHS
Electronic prescribing and medication administration that improves patient safety, cuts prescribing time and supports doctors, nurses and pharmacists in their daily work. Live in 10+ NHS trusts. NHS full rollout approved for EPS.
pharmacists
paperless
Shared Care Record
One longitudinal openEHR record across every organisation in a region or a country, so every authorised clinician sees the full picture in real time, from primary care to hospital to community services.
Care Planning
Individualised care plans created once and shared across primary, hospital, community and social care, with the patient’s preferences in them. One real-time picture of the patient for every team.
Better Platform
Health systems and partners that build their own applications and products take the platform itself: the data layer, app building, the Workflow Server and the Marketplace to publish on.
Trusted where care matters most
Hospitals, health systems, and national programmes running on Better.
“The UCP platform gives care professionals quick access to patient preferences, and I’m proud our latest updates continue to support patients and health services.”
“This project demonstrates what’s possible when clinical leadership, digital strategy, and technology come together with a shared goal. Structured medicines data will save thousands of hours annually, improve accuracy, and enhance care continuity.”
“The Better platform allows us to integrate ePROMs into our existing electronic health records. This means clinicians have access to ePROMs within the same setting they use every day.”
An open ecosystem with
a shared mission
Partners, publishers and learners building on Better.
Partners
System integrators, software vendors, consultancies and universities delivering and building on Better.
- Technology and implementation tracks
- Co-delivery and co-marketing
- 20+ delivery partners
Marketplace
Clinical content, applications and integrations built by Better and its ecosystem, certified and published on one platform.
- 100+ clinical content listings
- 30+ apps and growing
- Certified: Better-maintained, partner or community
Hive
The Better learning community for informaticians, developers, students and clinicians.
- openEHR foundations
- AQL and app building paths
- Free to join
Building better care
starts with the record
Own the record. Choose your AI. Stay in control.
Discuss your first use case, the systems it must connect to and who will build it.