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We started Vedge because no one else was going to.
African healthcare runs on paper folders, Excel workbooks, and good faith. The tools we inherited from Western vendors were not built for our wards, our rhythms, our insurance landscape, or our P&L. So we built one that is.
Four principles
What we believe,
in four lines.
This is the short version of our manifesto. It fits on one page on purpose. A longer document is available to partners on request.
- i.
- A nurse on a night shift is the most important user in the building. Every screen we ship is tested against the reality of a 02:00 round, not a product demo at noon.
- ii.
- Built in Accra. Designed for the way African insurance actually works — NHIS and every other provider on top of it. International hospitals can use Vedge, but they are the guest, not the customer we optimise for.
- iii.
- Every organisation gets tenant isolation, encrypted at rest, audited by default. We don’t have a “security plan” — we have one security posture and it applies to everyone.
- iv.
- If a facility is on the wrong tier, we’ll tell them. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so. Trust is a longer game than the quarter.
Who builds Vedge
A small team. Obsessed with making it work.
Two kinds of people. That’s the whole team.
Experts in healthcare.
Clinicians, pharmacists, and lab directors who have actually stood on the floors we build for. They tell us when a screen won’t survive a busy ward round — before we ship it.
Obsessed engineers.
The kind of people who don’t ship something until it works — not until it compiles. The difference matters, and it’s the only reason a night-shift nurse will actually use what we build.
Security & compliance
Patient privacy is a floor, not a ceiling.
- Data residency
Hosted in-country.
Patient records stay in Ghana. We run primary infrastructure on local cloud regions with same-country backups.
- Encryption
AES-256 at rest. TLS 1.3 in transit.
Every organisation has its own encryption context. Master keys rotate on a fixed schedule.
- Audit
Every action logged. Every login traced.
When a regulator or an auditor asks who touched a record, we can show them the answer in seconds.
- Standards
HL7, FHIR, ICD-10, LOINC.
We speak the standards so you can exchange data with any partner, regulator, or referral network.
Join the work
Build healthcare software that actually gets used.
We hire clinicians, engineers, designers, and field specialists. If you want to spend your career building something that matters within an hour of where you grew up, write to us.