Talamus

What Talamus does

Talamus (also operating as Talamus Health) is a private digital health company headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria that builds an integrated cloud-based healthcare management platform for African healthcare providers, pharmacies, laboratories, and patients. The core product is the Talamus Practice Management Application (PMA), a hospital management system covering patient intake, appointments, staff management, laboratory workflows, telemedicine, and multi-facility support, designed to global interoperability standards and compliant with both PCI DSS and HIPAA requirements. Adjacent products include the Talamus Patient App (a consumer-facing mobile app for appointment booking, medical records access, telemedicine, and an AI-powered symptom checker called Talamus AI-Doc), Talamus Lab Management, and Talamus Inventory (a separately branded pharmacy inventory and prescription management system).

The platform operates across Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Rwanda, with reported scale of 250,000+ patient records digitized, 6M+ patients managed on the network, and adoption by 100+ pharmacies and 100 primary healthcare centers under a partnership with the Lagos State Primary Healthcare Board. Talamus makes money through tiered monthly subscriptions to the PMA (₦25,000/month for mid-sized clinics, ₦50,000/month for larger hospitals, with annual billing providing a 17% discount and custom enterprise pricing for multi-location networks) plus transaction fees from patient-side payments for consultations, prescriptions, and lab services processed through Flutterwave. Go-to-market combines a self-serve product-led growth motion (7-day free trial, website signup, App Store and Google Play downloads) with enterprise field sales targeting hospital networks and government health agencies.

Key strategic moves include the 2022 Lagos State public-sector partnership, the 2023 Google for Startups Black Founders Fund selection (US$4M equity-free cohort), expansion to four African markets, and product extensions into pharmacy and laboratory modules. The platform is HIPAA and PCI DSS compliant, has earned a Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa top-3 finalist recognition in 2023, and is led by founder and CEO Murisiku Raifu.

Name

Talamus

Legal name

Talamus

Website

https://talamushealth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Talamus Health is a Lagos-based digital health platform that provides cloud-based practice management, telemedicine, pharmacy, and laboratory software to healthcare providers and patients across Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Rwanda.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Practice Management Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Medication Adherence & Therapy Management Platforms (refills, reminders, MTM) (HLALAIAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Specialty Pharmacy–Integrated Telehealth (biologics, complex therapies, REMS) (HLALAIAF), Medical-Grade Device Connectivity & Device Management (MDM) (HLACAFAG)

Keywords

• Healthcare practice management
• Medical records software
• Telemedicine platform
• Pharmacy inventory management
• Patient health app

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Practice Management Application Subscription: Monthly or annual subscription plans for healthcare providers (clinics, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies) to use the Talamus PMA platform. Plans are tiered by facility size (staff count) with Professional and Enterprise tiers.
2. Healthcare Services Transaction Fees: Patients pay for consultations, prescriptions, and lab tests through the app. The platform facilitates transactions between patients and healthcare providers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Talamus operates an integrated cloud-based healthcare management ecosystem comprising the Talamus Practice Management Application (PMA) for hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and laboratories, the Talamus Patient App for consumer-facing healthcare access, and the Talamus Inventory system for pharmacy stock management. The platform centralizes medical records, supports appointments and teleconsultations, digitizes pharmacy and laboratory workflows, and incorporates AI features such as AI-Doc symptom assessment and voice-activated clinical note-taking. It is designed for African healthcare delivery with multi-currency support, interoperability, and rapid deployment (under 2-minute cloud migration).

Product overview

Talamus offers an integrated healthcare technology platform comprising three primary products: the Talamus PMA (Practice Management Application) serving as the core hospital management system, the Talamus Patient App for consumer-facing healthcare access, and the Talamus Inventory system for pharmacy operations. These products operate as an interconnected ecosystem where the PMA manages clinical workflows for hospitals and clinics, the Patient App connects patients to providers for appointments and telemedicine, and the Inventory system handles pharmacy stock and prescription management. Additional modules include Lab Management for laboratory digitization and specialized features like multi-location support, telemedicine, voice-activated note-taking, and AI-powered symptom assessment. The platform is designed for scalability across individual practices to large hospital networks and government health systems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Talamus PMA: Practice Management Application for hospitals and clinics
• Talamus Inventory
• Talamus Patient App

Quantifiable outcome

• 14+ hours saved weekly on administrative approvals and record retrieval
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCHAI is listed as a partner in the Talamus ecosystem, supporting healthcare delivery across Africa through their collaborative efforts.
• Lagos State Primary Healthcare BoardcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to digitize 100 primary healthcare centers in Lagos State, Nigeria. This is a significant government partnership for expanding digital health infrastructure.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Helium Health: Nigeria-headquartered electronic medical records and practice management platform serving hospitals and clinics across West Africa. Closest direct competitor to Talamus PMA in the African hospital digitization segment.
• mPharma: Ghana-based health tech company focused on pharmacy inventory management, retail pharmacy operations, and patient medication access. Directly comparable to Talamus's Talamus Inventory / Pharmacy Management module.
• Remedial Health: Nigerian B2B pharmacy operating system providing inventory, financing, and procurement tools to community pharmacies. Overlaps with Talamus's pharmacy inventory and prescription management functionality.
• MYDAWA: Kenya-based online pharmacy and digital health platform offering e-prescriptions, teleconsultations, and home delivery. Comparable as a multi-vertical pharmacy-plus-telehealth play targeting African consumers.

Regional players

• Babyl (Rwanda): Rwanda-based digital health platform offering telemedicine, e-prescriptions, and patient records on mobile. Comparable patient-facing telemedicine and digital records layer, focused on the Rwandan market.
• Vezeeta: MENA digital healthcare platform for doctor booking, telehealth, and pharmacy. Comparable as a multi-country emerging-markets platform combining provider SaaS with patient-facing booking and consultation services.

Others

• LifeBank: Nigerian healthcare logistics platform delivering blood, medical supplies, and oxygen to hospitals. Operates within the same African health ecosystem and serves overlapping hospital customers, though not a software peer.
• Zipline: Drone-based medical logistics provider operating in Ghana, Rwanda, and Nigeria, delivering blood, vaccines, and medicines to health facilities. Adjacent infrastructure layer supporting the same African public health customers as Talamus.

Broad incumbents

• athenahealth: US-based large-scale practice management, EHR, and revenue cycle SaaS for ambulatory practices and hospitals. Same core business model (cloud practice management subscription) but operating at much greater scale in mature markets.
• Epic Systems: Largest US hospital EMR/EHR vendor with growing international presence. Represents the global incumbent benchmark for hospital information systems that Talamus PMA ultimately competes against for multinational hospital contracts in Africa.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/talamusghana

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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