Tswa-Sotho: "Get Well"
A cloud-native, offline-first EMR and hospital management platform built for South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa — digitising the complete patient care journey from registration to discharge, across facilities of any size.
Fola is a comprehensive SaaS hospital and clinic management platform with integrated Electronic Medical Records — designed specifically for the South African and African healthcare ecosystem, where connectivity is unreliable, paper-based workflows still dominate, and the cost of medical errors is high.
From a single-doctor practice to a multi-facility hospital network, Fola scales to fit. It digitises the complete patient care journey — appointment booking, clinical documentation, pharmacy dispensing, billing, and patient engagement via WhatsApp and SMS — in a single, role-aware platform.
And because it's built as a Progressive Web App (PWA), it works on any device — laptop, tablet, or smartphone — even when the internet goes down.
Patient registration, demographic capture, insurance linking, and appointment scheduling — with automated WhatsApp/SMS reminders to reduce no-shows.
SOAP note EMR, vital signs capture, ICD-10 diagnosis coding, lab order management, and clinical decision support — including drug interaction checks and allergy alerts.
Integrated pharmacy module for prescription writing, dispensing, stock management, and low-stock alerts — with a complete medication audit trail per patient.
Billing, invoice generation, and revenue reporting — with analytics dashboards giving management a live view of facility performance.
Fola covers every clinical and administrative function — in one integrated, role-aware platform.
Structured SOAP notes, clinical history, vital signs trending, lab results, and document uploads — all linked to a single patient record. Signed and locked notes for HPCSA compliance.
Provider availability management, multi-type appointment booking, confirmation workflows, and automated WhatsApp/SMS reminders — reducing no-show rates and keeping schedules full.
Integrated prescribing with drug interaction and allergy checks, dispensing records, inventory management, reorder alerts, and a complete per-patient medication history.
Fola functions fully without an internet connection — all data is stored locally and syncs automatically when connectivity is restored. Clinics in low-bandwidth environments never lose access to patient records.
Full POPIA compliance with encrypted data at rest and in transit, granular role-based access control, consent recording, and a complete audit trail of every data access and modification.
Invoice generation, payment tracking, medical aid billing, and revenue reporting — giving administrators a live view of facility financial performance without separate accounting tools.
Operational KPI dashboards for management: patient volumes, appointment rates, no-show trends, pharmacy stock levels, and clinical outcome tracking — all in real time.
Standards-based data exchange via HL7 FHIR — enabling Fola to connect with national health systems, laboratories, medical aid schemes, and third-party clinical tools.
Built-in teleconsultation capability — so providers can conduct virtual consultations, generate EMR notes, and issue prescriptions without the patient being physically present.
Fola is role-aware by design — every user sees exactly what they need to do their job, nothing more.
Fast SOAP note capture, ICD-10 code assistance, drug interaction alerts, lab ordering, vital signs trending, and a complete longitudinal patient history — in a single screen.
Vital signs capture, triage queue management, patient check-in, ward and bed assignment, and real-time escalation workflows — structured around the clinical workflow, not the other way around.
Prescription verification and dispensing, automated drug interaction checks, inventory management, and supplier reorder workflows — with full dispensing records per patient.
Patient registration, appointment booking, billing, medical aid claims, and facility performance dashboards — all in one place, with the detail management needs to make good decisions.
Multi-facility, multi-tenancy architecture — each facility has isolated data with group-level reporting. Deploy Fola across a hospital network with centralised management and facility-level autonomy.
Fola scales down as well as up. A single-doctor practice gets the same clinical tools as a 500-bed hospital — at a SaaS price that replaces capital expenditure with a predictable monthly cost.
Healthcare data in South Africa is subject to POPIA, HPCSA professional guidelines, and emerging digital health standards. Fola embeds compliance at the architectural level — not as an afterthought.
Every patient interaction is logged. Every data access is audited. Every consent is recorded. And HL7 FHIR support ensures Fola can interoperate with national and regional health information systems as they mature.
Fola is hosted on AWS with infrastructure built for reliability, scale, and low-bandwidth resilience.
Per-facility monthly pricing. No servers to buy, no software licenses to renew. Get started with a subscription and scale as your facility grows.
Progressive Web App — works on desktop browsers, tablets, and smartphones. No app store downloads. Install it like a native app from any browser.
Multi-AZ deployment on AWS with automated failover, daily database backups with 35-day retention, and auto-scaling to handle peak facility load.
Book a demo. We'll walk you through Fola in the context of your specific facility type — and show you how quickly you can go from paper to fully digital.