PHAST

What PHAST does

PHAST is a French privately held company (SARL, Paris) founded in 1989 that develops semantic interoperability products and services for the French healthcare sector. Its core offering is a portfolio of reference catalogs — CIOdc for medications (14,500+ references covering pharmaceutical specialties commercialized in France), CIOdm for medical devices (nearly 2 million references with 100,000+ new products added annually), CIOlab for medical biology, and the TIO clinical terminology service. These catalogs encode products and clinical concepts using French regulatory codes (CIP, UCD, ATC, LPP, Cladimed, EMDN, GTIN) and international standards (SNOMED CT, LOINC, UCUM, HL7 FHIR), enabling standardized data exchange across heterogeneous hospital information systems. The technology stack includes the STS (Standard Terminology Service) REST/SOAP APIs conforming to HL7 CTS2 and RIM, plus the ParserIO barcode syntax analyzer, distributed via the SIPh community platform to software publishers for integration.

PHAST serves more than 740 French hospitals, clinics, and cancer centers, plus a SIPh community of over 50 healthcare software publishers including Dedalus, InterSystems, Docaposte, Cegedim, Comarch, and Softway Medical. The company monetizes primarily through annual subscription licenses (priced per number of MCO/non-MCO beds and places), supplemented by one-time initial standardization/mapping professional services and SIPh community/partner integration rights. Free online Visionneuses provide a lead-generation entry point for prospective hospital customers. PHAST operates exclusively in France, with operational involvement in the PN13-IS medication management standard (transferred to Interop'Santé in 2020) and stewardship of the Laboé-SI value set under a 2026 ANS national LOINC contract. Recent product initiatives include EUDAMED European medical device data integration into CIOdm (planned end-2026) and ongoing collaboration with SPARES on the ConsoRes antibiotic surveillance platform.

Name

PHAST

Legal name

PHAST

Website

https://phast.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

PHAST is a French private company that builds semantic interoperability catalogs and terminology services for healthcare, serving over 740 hospitals and 50+ software publishers with reference data for medications, medical devices, and biology using LOINC, SNOMED CT and HL7 standards.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Interoperability Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (51321)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Terminology, Ontology & Code Set Management (SNOMED/LOINC/ICD/RxNorm) (HLACAIAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Interoperability Standards, Profiles & Implementation (HL7/FHIR/IHE) (HLACABAA), Terminology Services & Semantic Interoperability (SNOMED/LOINC/RxNorm mapping) (HLACABAJ), Pharmacy Interoperability, Standards & Integration (FHIR/NCPDP) (HLACAKAO)

Keywords

• Healthcare interoperability
• Semantic terminology catalogs
• Medical device coding
• Pharmaceutical reference data
• Clinical terminology services

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Annual Licensing Fees: Annual subscription licenses for access to CIOdc, CIOdm, and other catalogues. License cost is calculated based on establishment size (number of MCO/non-MCO beds and places). Must be renewed yearly for continued access to catalog updates.
2. Initial Standardization Services: One-time initial standardization service (mapping) where PHAST matches establishment's internal product codes with catalog codes. This is a separate professional service charged at implementation, distinct from the annual license.
3. Free Viewer Access (Lead Generation): Free online consultation of catalogues through Visionneuses for lead generation. Production use requires paid licensing. This creates a freemium-style entry point for prospect engagement.
4. SIPh Community Membership: Software publishers can join the SIPh community (Société d'Interopérabilité en Pharmacie Hospitalière) for R&D, demonstration, and promotion rights to integrate catalogues in their applications. Community membership likely involves fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

PHAST develops and licenses semantic interoperability catalogs and terminology services that enable French hospital software systems to exchange standardized, coded data. Its core offerings are the CIOdc medication catalog (14,500+ references), CIOdm medical device catalog (~2 million references), CIOlab medical biology catalog with LOINC integration, and the TIO clinical terminology service (SNOMED CT, LOINC, UCUM). Catalogs are delivered via annual subscription licensing, REST/SOAP APIs (STS), and integration through a community of 35+ software publishers.

Product overview

PHAST provides a comprehensive suite of semantic interoperability solutions for French healthcare. The core offerings consist of four main catalogs: CIOdc (medication catalog with 14,500+ references), CIOdm (medical device catalog with ~2 million references), CIOlab (medical biology catalog), and TIO (clinical terminology service for SNOMED CT integration). These catalogs share standardized data enabling hospital software systems to communicate seamlessly. Distribution is available via REST/SOAP APIs (STS platform), push-mode file downloads, or integrated viewers. Supporting services include LOINC transcoding, ParserIO barcode analysis, and the PN13-IS open standard for medication management. Over 740 hospitals and 35+ compatible software applications utilize PHAST solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CIOdc: Catalogue d'Interopérabilité du médicament - interoperability catalog for medications covering pharmaceutical specialties commercialized in France
• CIOdm
• CIOlab
• TIO
• SIPh
• PN13
• ParserIO
• STS-France

Products and services

• CIOdc - Catalogue d'Interopérabilité du Médicament CIOdc is the catalog of semantic interoperability for medications, describing all pharmaceutical specialties commercialized in France with coding (UCD, CIP, CIS, ATC codes, active ingredients, pharmaceutical forms, administration routes, packaging, regulatory information). It provides coded and structured data integrated into hospital software for the medication circuit (prescription, pharmaceutical validation, dispensing, administration, procurement) and is updated a minimum of five times per week. The catalog covers 14,500+ medication references and is licensed on an annual subscription basis to hospitals, clinics, and software publishers.
• CIOdm - Catalogue d'Interopérabilité des Dispositifs Médicaux

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 740 hospitals and clinics trust PHAST solutions
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration20 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and major.

• Consortium: PHAST, Onaos, SFBC, PixilibcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Consortium selected by ANS (Agence du Numérique en Santé) for national LOINC terminology market. PHAST leads maintenance of the Laboé-SI value set as part of this consortium. First update aligned Laboé-SI codes with LOINC v2.81 and integrated analyses for five mandatory reporting diseases (MSO).
• ANAP (Agence Nationale de la Performance Sanitaire et Médico-sociale)minorOthers · 1 January 2026PHAST catalogues CIOdc and CIOdm are referenced in ANAP's 2026 Panorama of PUI automation solutions. This reference by a government agency validates PHAST's role in hospital interoperability without formal partnership.
• SPARES (Mission Nationale)coreOthers · 1 January 2025National surveillance mission for antibiotic resistance in healthcare settings. ConsoRes platform (managed by SPARES) uses PHAST's CIOdc catalogue via REST webservices to identify and describe antibiotics. Renewal of partnership confirmed in 2025. Project ongoing since 2011.
• Interop'SantémajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Since November 2020, Interop'Santé manages PN13 standard maintenance and distribution (previously managed by PHAST as PN13-SIPh). PHAST continues to provide the semantic interoperability reference (CIOdc) for PN13-IS. A 'Free Set CIOdc' is available for non-community members.
• Regenstrief InstitutecoreTechnology or IntegrationPublisher of LOINC terminology. PHAST integrates LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names & Codes) into its CIOlab catalogue for medical biology standardization. LOINC contains 106,064 elements in v2.80 with 59,276 translated into French. PHAST maintains French LOINC value sets and provides transcoding services.
• BioLOINCcoreTechnology or IntegrationPortal publishing reference LOINC value sets for France. PHAST participates in this initiative to make French LOINC translations and value sets available to the healthcare community.
• SIPh Community PartnersmajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOver 40 software publishers and healthcare organizations form the SIPh community (Société d'Interopérabilité en Pharmacie Hospitalière). Partners include Alma, Axigate, Bow-medical, Canyon, Cegedim, Cegid, Comarch, Dedalus, Docaposte, InterSystems, Inetum, KLS Group, Numih France, Softway Medical, Vidal, and others. These partners integrate PHAST catalogues into their hospital software solutions.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Vidal: Vidal is the dominant French drug reference database, historically operated independently and now part of the Dedalus group. Like PHAST, it provides coded pharmaceutical reference data to French hospitals and software publishers, making it the closest direct competitor in the French medication interoperability space.
• Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO): IMO provides clinical terminology and coding services that integrate SNOMED CT and other standards into EHR workflows, comparable to PHAST's TIO service. Both companies act as terminology middleware layers between clinical content and hospital software.
• Regenstrief Institute: Regenstrief develops and maintains LOINC, the medical terminology standard that PHAST integrates and extends through its CIOlab catalog and national LOINC value sets. PHAST is a mutual partner with Regenstrief for LOINC distribution in France, making Regenstrief both an enabler and a potential peer for LOINC-backed services.

Broad incumbents

• First Databank (FDB): FDB provides drug reference and clinical decision support databases used widely across U.S. and international hospital systems. It is a broader incumbent with overlapping medication reference data capabilities, though focused more on clinical decision support than French-specific semantic interoperability.
• Wolters Kluwer Health (Medi-Span, UpToDate): Wolters Kluwer operates Medi-Span drug data and other clinical reference products widely integrated into hospital systems globally. As a large incumbent, it competes on scale and breadth of clinical reference content rather than the French-specific semantic interoperability niche PHAST owns.
• Dedalus Group: Dedalus is a major European healthcare software vendor whose hospital information systems (DxCare, DxPharm) integrate PHAST catalogs. It is also the parent of Vidal and therefore both a key distribution partner and a broad incumbent that could internalize reference data capabilities over time.
• InterSystems: InterSystems' TrakCare and HealthShare platforms are widely deployed in French hospitals and integrate PHAST catalogs via the SIPh community. As a large health IT incumbent with global reach, it represents both a critical distribution channel and a potential competitive threat if it builds native terminology services.
• Solventum (formerly 3M Health Information Systems): Solventum provides healthcare coding, terminology, and classification services broadly across providers. While not focused on French pharmacy/medical device reference data, its scale in clinical coding makes it a long-term competitive threat if it expands deeper into European semantic interoperability.

Others

• SNOMED International: SNOMED International is the non-profit maintainer of the SNOMED CT terminology that PHAST's TIO service depends on. As the upstream standards body, it is ecosystem-adjacent rather than a direct competitor but shapes the competitive landscape PHAST operates in.

Emerging players

• Apelon: Apelon is a health informatics company specializing in terminology management and distributed terminology servers, conceptually similar to PHAST's STS service. It serves a smaller U.S.-focused base but represents an emerging player in terminology infrastructure that could eventually compete in European markets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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