Software for the hospitals
software forgot
Most hospital systems are built for facilities with stable power, fast fibre and an IT department. Most Kenyan hospitals have none of those. We're building Tabibu to close that gap properly — and built the extension architecture so the same core can run anywhere the same gap exists.
Kenya's payer landscape is mid-transition: the move to the Social Health Authority puts electronic claims and reporting at the centre of how a facility gets paid. Most county and mission facilities are still running that reality on paper registers and disconnected point tools — losing revenue at billing and hours at reporting time.
The systems already on the market assume a world that isn't there: always-on connectivity, per-user licences a public hospital could never afford, and claims workflows built for other countries' insurers. Tabibu is built the other way round — on-site on a facility's own hardware and network, configured department by department rather than sold as a fixed package.
The platform is built. We're now in conversations with Kenyan hospitals and health centres to bring on our first founding pilot partners.
Values with consequences
The ward is the spec
Features are designed in facilities, not conference rooms. If it doesn't survive a Monday morning OPD queue, it doesn't ship.
Offline is not an edge case
Connectivity fails; care doesn't. Every workflow is built to run through an outage and reconcile afterwards.
The record belongs to the patient
We are custodians, not owners. Data is exportable, portable and protected — and leaving Tabibu is always possible.
Boring reliability
A hospital system is infrastructure, like oxygen lines. The highest compliment we aim for is that nobody thinks about us.
Africa first, not Africa only
Every default — the payment rail, the insurer, the language — is tuned for where we started. The extension architecture means none of that is load-bearing for the next market.
Preparing our first pilot deployments
The platform: registration, clinical care, laboratory, pharmacy, billing and MOH reporting on one system.
In conversations with Kenyan hospitals and health centres for founding pilot deployments.
On-site setup, staff training and department-by-department go-live with our first pilot partners.
Work on something that queues can feel
We're a small team building out of Nairobi. If you want to work on hospital software that has to survive a Monday morning OPD queue, get in touch.
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