Services · Mobile app development · Healthcare apps
Codeeo provides healthcare app development in Saudi Arabia for hospital groups, health clusters, home healthcare networks, virtual care providers and digital health companies operating across the Kingdom. We design and build patient apps, clinician tools and national operations dashboards that respect Saudi health regulation, connect to the systems the sector shares and roll out from a first region to the rest of the country without being rebuilt for each one.
Single clinics and dental practices are covered on separate pages. This page deals with organisations whose patients, staff and facilities sit in several regions, and with the national rules and platforms that every such product has to work within.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
Capabilities for a Kingdom-wide product
Saudi healthcare is being reorganised. Under the Health Sector Transformation Program, part of Vision 2030, government hospitals and primary care centres have been grouped into regional health clusters under the Health Holding Company, while the private sector, insurers and virtual care services expand alongside them. National platforms already handle much of the shared plumbing: Nafath for identity, NPHIES for insurance claims and approvals, national e-prescribing, and the Ministry of Health's own patient apps. A national app has to fit into that structure rather than compete with it. It also has to satisfy several regulators at once and work for patients in Riyadh, Abha, Tabuk and Al Ahsa equally well. These are the capabilities we plan for, and discovery decides the order. Few organisations need all ten at launch; most begin with identity, records and one service line, then add the rest as each region comes online.
Before design, we list every feature and test it against the Saudi Food and Drug Authority's guidance on digital health products, Ministry of Health licensing for the services you deliver and the data rules that apply. Features that could make the app a regulated medical device are flagged early so your advisers can decide. The result is a short written register you keep updating.
No late surprises from a regulator after the build.
The sector's insurance exchange and many modern hospital systems use FHIR resources. We design the app's data model around the same standard, so eligibility, approvals, appointments and results can be exchanged with fewer custom mappings.
Each new hospital or insurer connects faster than the last.
Citizens and residents sign in through Nafath, then manage dependants such as children, elderly parents and household staff under clear rules. Each profile links to the correct medical record at every facility in your network. Residents who change sponsor or city keep their history, because the identity, not the facility, anchors the record.
One verified identity follows the patient across regions.
Specialists based in one city consult with patients and local doctors in facilities elsewhere, through scheduled video sessions with shared records. Rare specialties reach smaller regions without patients travelling to Riyadh or Jeddah, an approach the Ministry of Health's own Seha Virtual Hospital has made familiar.
Specialist time reaches the regions that lack it.
Branches in each region run their own visit schedules, staff and stock, while head office sets care protocols, documentation standards and quality checks for the whole network. Distances in some regions mean visit planning must allow for long drives between homes.
Consistent home care quality from Jazan to the Northern Borders.
Chronic disease programmes for diabetes, hypertension or heart failure collect readings from approved devices and phone health platforms, with alert thresholds and nurse review queues organised by region. Enrolment, device supply and patient education are tracked in the same place.
Programmes run at national scale with local nurses in charge.
Self-pay patients and co-payments are handled through mada, Apple Pay, STC Bank or SADAD, and every invoice is issued in a format compatible with ZATCA e-invoicing through your finance system.
Billing that finance and tax teams can sign off on.
Every access to a record, change to a care plan and release of a result is logged with user, time and reason, so the evidence your quality team gathers for CBAHI surveys or internal audits is already in place.
Audit preparation stops being a scramble.
Facilities in Makkah and Madinah can switch on visitor registration, extra languages and seasonal services during pilgrimage periods, while the rest of the network carries on as normal. Content for pilgrims can appear in the languages groups most often speak, and is switched off again after the season. Staff rosters and virtual care capacity can be raised for those weeks from the same console.
Seasonal surges handled without a separate app.
Leadership compares regions on access, waiting times, virtual care uptake, home visit completion and patient feedback, with drill-down to a single facility and role-based limits on what each manager sees. Data can feed your existing reporting tools rather than replacing them.
Investment goes where the data shows the need.
Who this is for
A national healthcare app is rarely a single product decision. It sits across clinical governance, IT, finance, legal and regional management, often with different priorities in each region. The organisations below have very different starting points, but each needs a partner who can plan for Saudi regulation, shared national platforms and staged regional rollout from the first workshop. For each one we note where the first release usually focuses and what tends to follow.
You already operate in one or two cities and are opening facilities elsewhere. Your app should let a patient in a new region find services, check insurance, book and see results on day one, using the same account they would use in your home city. We build the regional structure into the data model so a new hospital is configured rather than coded. Marketing teams can announce a new facility in the app the week it opens, with services and doctors already listed.
Expansion speed depends on configuration, not new builds.
Virtual care companies in the Kingdom need licensed practitioners, clear consent and prescription controls, insurer integration and a clinical workflow that stands up to regulatory review. We build the patient app, the practitioner workspace and the operations console, and help you document how each Ministry of Health requirement is met for your licensing conversations. Insurer integration and corporate accounts usually follow in the second release, once patient volumes justify the work.
Your legal adviser confirms licensing conclusions.
Home care across the Kingdom means very different travel distances, staff mixes and patient needs from one region to the next. A shared platform with regional settings keeps protocols consistent while letting each branch plan visits around local roads, hours and seasons. Head office sees quality and productivity by branch. Staff who move between regions keep the same login and training records, and protocol updates reach every branch at once.
Founders building chronic care, mental wellness or maternity products for Saudi users need to settle classification, data residency and clinical governance early, because investors and partners will ask. We help shape a first release that is safe, compliant and small enough to test with real patients, then plan the national rollout around what the pilot proves. Documentation from the start also makes later partnerships with insurers and hospital groups easier to agree.
Clinical claims are reviewed by qualified advisers before launch.
Engagement models
National programmes usually begin with a paid discovery and regulatory planning phase, followed by a fixed scope build for the first region. After launch, most clients keep a dedicated team for regional rollout and continuous improvement. Codeeo has a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. In-person workshops are available in Riyadh and Dubai; teams in other regions join by video call. Under every model your organisation owns the code, accounts and documentation, and we prepare a handover plan so an internal team can take over support whenever you decide.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Native or cross-platform mobile apps, web consoles, FHIR-based integration services, identity and payment connectors, and cloud hosting in Saudi regions or your own data centre, documented so your IT department can operate and audit it.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Several, depending on what the app does.
The Ministry of Health licenses facilities and health services, including virtual care. The Saudi Commission for Health Specialties licenses practitioners. The Saudi Food and Drug Authority decides whether software is a regulated medical device. The Personal Data Protection Law, overseen by SDAIA, treats health data as sensitive, and the National Cybersecurity Authority sets controls many organisations follow. We map these in discovery and your legal team confirms the conclusions. Accreditation bodies such as CBAHI add their own expectations for documentation and patient safety, which we reflect in audit trails and content approval steps.
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