Better Studio

What Better Studio is

Better Studio is the low-code product from Better, a digital health company. The company's blog describes it as a healthcare-specific low-code platform that lets clinicians and IT teams co-create, and the home page calls it a "healthcare-specific, low-code, domain-driven platform" for citizen development. It is a builder for health and care organizations, aimed at 2 groups working together: clinicians who know the workflow, and IT teams who own data, security and rollout. The site's tagline for it is "Build clinically validated EHRs with low code, faster than ever before". It runs on the Better Platform, which the company describes as an integrated digital health platform built on openEHR and FHIR repositories: a Clinical Data Repository for "Persistent, standardised clinical data" and an Operational Data Repository for demographic, operational, workflow and administrative data.

Better frames the product against general-purpose low-code tools that were "born" for any industry. Its argument is that healthcare has sensitive patient data, strict regulation, complex workflows and a need for interoperability, so the platform starts from the data model instead of the app.

What you build and how

Editor. The blog says clinicians and IT can shape applications through a drag-and-drop App Builder and Query Builder, and states that "development cycles shrink from months to hours". The site also names dynamic form and screen-building with low-code tools, and a Better Studio release titled "Voice to form turns speech into structured clinical data".

Data layer. This is the center of the product. Better Studio "natively integrates with openEHR clinical data repositories and FHIR operational data", which the company says makes every app built interoperable and standards-based, with "no lock-in, no proprietary silos". The mission statement on the home page adds that you build user experiences "on top of a vendor-neutral clinical data repository". The company's argument is that the data model, not the app, is the enduring entity: apps may change or be retired, and the data stays.

Design system. Out of the box, the product ships with a design system tailored to healthcare: clinical forms, widgets for vital signs, medication components, patient lists and dashboards. The home page lists the Better Design System as "modular components and guidelines for improved patient outcomes".

AI. The company says AI helps write custom widgets, build clinical forms and assemble screens while staying within the platform's data governance model. It also describes AI-assisted workflow adjustments and dashboards with AI integration that give predictive monitoring and flag possible issues in security, compliance and app performance.

Governance. The company's recommended practice is to define who can build, deploy and maintain apps, use centralized oversight tools, encourage collaboration between IT and business units, and review apps regularly for usability and performance. It argues this prevents "shadow IT" without stopping clinicians from building.

Sharing. A healthcare marketplace is described as a place to share and reuse apps, widgets and clinical models across organizations.

What you can build for each part of the care process. The home page lists solution areas that sit on the platform, and they show the range of apps.

• The shared care record, described as unifying patient information for informed clinical decisions. Its listed benefits are real-time data access and updates, dynamic form and screen-building, and population health analytics.
• Better Meds for medication management, an ePMA with an allergy module, medication reconciliation, pharmacy integration and outpatient prescribing. The Better Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), sold inside Better Meds or stand-alone, sends prescriptions to community pharmacies, and the site says it has NHS Full Rollout Approval.
• Care planning and care coordination, described as enabling personalized patient care journeys, with care plans shared across primary, secondary, urgent and community care settings.
• PROMs, for capturing and analyzing patient-reported outcomes on the openEHR standard. A clinical research fellow at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is quoted on the home page saying the platform lets them integrate ePROMs into their existing electronic health records, and that it "offers a low-code environment for developers, making it easy for anyone to pick up or learn how to develop the forms and questionnaires."

End users and learning. The blog describes apps for user groups such as clinicians, administrators and patients. For builders, the company runs Hive, a learning space where you "develop the skills to build and use Better tools and applications effectively"; its newest course teaches Archetype Query Language for navigating openEHR data and extracting clinical information.

Plans, scale and trust

The site lists no prices or plan names. Its menu carries a "Start free" button beside "Book a demo", and the footer links a help center, a marketplace, a partner page and a community. The site is published in English, Slovenian, German and Spanish.

The scale claims are the company's own.

• The home page states 40 M+ unique patients' EHRs stored, 1000+ healthcare institutions connected and 30+ markets.
• The company blog says Better supports over 30 million patients across 27 countries, with national-level deployments in Greece, Slovenia, Malta, and many UK and EU regions. The 2 pages give different totals, which reads as figures from different dates.
• The home page says the company is "trusted by the world's leading health and care organisations" and links case studies on the Universal Care Plan, EHA Clinics, Slovenia's national health challenges, The Christie's EHR modernization, InfoBANCO and a University Children's Hospital.
• The home page says Better was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for EMEA Healthcare Data Platforms for Providers 2025, and the CEO and founder, Tomaž Gornik, is quoted on the company's mission.

On trust, the site's footer links a Certifications page, and the blog ties security and compliance to governance, standards and oversight. The technical claim the company leans on hardest is openEHR and FHIR, which it sets against vendor lock-in.

Who it suits and who it does not

Better Studio suits a health system, hospital network or national program that wants clinicians to shape their own tools while IT keeps the data standards and oversight. It fits teams that already think in openEHR and FHIR terms, or that want to avoid proprietary silos and keep patient data usable by the next application. The shared record, medication, care planning and PROMs areas make it a fit when the goal is a set of connected clinical apps, not one isolated form.

It is a poor match for a founder or small business building a general product, an online store, a landing page or a consumer wellness app. The platform is explicitly industry-specific, so a team outside health and care will not use most of what it offers. A caveat applies to any buyer too: there is no public price list, so budgeting starts with a demo. If you have no use for openEHR or FHIR, a general-purpose enterprise low-code platform is the more natural starting point.