the i-engineers

What the i-engineers does

the i-engineers is a privately held Swiss software company, headquartered in Zürich and founded in 1989, that builds the health-engine platform — an integrated suite for digitizing hospital processes. The platform bundles several components into a single architecture: a Clinical Data Repository that centralizes clinical information, an Interoperability Platform (Interoperabilitätsplattform) that connects disparate hospital systems, an Integrated Process Control (Integrierte Prozesssteuerung) layer for hospital workflows, and an Interoperable Patient Portal (Interoperables Patientenportal) that provides cross-institutional patient data access. A modular "Healthcare Ökosystem" layer sits atop the core, enabling extension through plug-in modules.

The firm serves hospitals and healthcare systems — acute-care hospitals, university hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, cantonal hospitals, and healthcare networks — primarily across the DACH region. Named reference customers include Hirslanden, Stadtspital Zürich, University Hospital Basel, Reha Bellikon, Zurzach Care, medbase, the Swiss Epidemiological Data Platform, Kantonsspital Graubünden, Immanuel Albertinen Diakonie, and AMEOS Gruppe. In April 2026 the company went live with the MKD (Medizinische Koordinationsdaten) project in Germany, an interoperable patient portal that connects over 140 hospitals and 35,000 beds — described in the company's own materials as one of Germany's largest healthcare digitization programs.

The company makes money through enterprise platform licensing/subscription to hospitals and healthcare systems, using a direct enterprise field-sales motion with expert consultation and a dedicated customer portal (kundenportal.tie.ch). Marketing is concentrated on customer logos, industry announcements, and direct expert engagement rather than mass-market or PLG channels. The company is small (11–50 employees), privately held, unlisted, and has not disclosed external funding rounds. Its short-description taxonomy further indicates legacy capability in ECM, workflow, and process management originally spanning financial and healthcare sectors.

Name

the i-engineers

Legal name

the i-engineers

Website

https://tie.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

the i-engineers is a Zürich-based Swiss software firm, founded 1989, that builds the health-engine platform — interoperability, clinical data repository, integrated process control, and patient portal modules — for hospitals and healthcare systems across the DACH region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Interoperability Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Integration Engines & Interface Management (HL7 v2/X12/API) (HLACABAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

EHR/EMR Integration & Interoperability Middleware (HL7/FHIR) (HLALAKAD)

Keywords

• Healthcare interoperability
• Clinical data platform
• Hospital workflow software
• Enterprise content management
• Process digitization solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Zürich

HQ country

Switzerland

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. Platform Licensing/Subscription: health-engine platform deployment to hospitals likely through licensing or subscription model for enterprise healthcare customers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

the i-engineers sells the health-engine software platform, which digitizes and connects hospital and clinical processes through a clinical data repository, enterprise content management (ECM), and workflow/process management capabilities. The offering centers on healthcare interoperability — enabling hospitals and integrated care networks to exchange patient data across systems — and is exemplified by its operation of the MKD Interoperables Patientenportal linking 140+ hospitals and 35,000 beds in Germany.

Product overview

the i-engineers offers health-engine, a unified healthcare digitization platform designed as a flexible total solution for hospital process digitization. The platform consists of integrated components including Architecture (Architektur), Clinical Data Repository, Interoperability Platform (Interoperabilitätsplattform), Integrated Process Control (Integrierte Prozesssteuerung), and various Modules within a Healthcare Ecosystem (Healthcare Ökosystem). The company recently completed a major German project (MKD) connecting 140+ hospitals with 35,000 beds since April 2026.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• health-engine: The flexible overall solution for digitizing hospital processes, including architecture, clinical data repository, interoperability platform, integrated process control, and healthcare ecosystem modules.

Products and services

• health-engine A B2B software platform for digitizing and connecting hospital and clinical processes, providing a clinical data repository, ECM, workflow, and process management, plus an interoperability layer used to operate cross-hospital patient portals such as MKD. Built for hospitals, hospital networks, and integrated care organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 140+ clinics connected in Germany MKD project
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Rhapsody (Lyniate): Specialist healthcare integration engine vendor (formerly Corepoint Health / Rhapsody) competing in the same HL7/FHIR interface management niche as the i-engineers.
• CompuGroup Medical: German-headquartered healthcare IT provider serving hospitals and physician networks with EHR, interoperability, and workflow software — directly overlapping with health-engine's hospital customer base.
• InterSystems: Provider of HealthShare, a healthcare interoperability and integration platform built on HL7/FHIR — a direct technical and functional competitor to the i-engineers' interoperability platform.
• Dedalus Group: Major European hospital IT vendor with strong DACH presence offering EHR, interoperability, and clinical data solutions directly comparable to the i-engineers' health-engine platform.

Broad incumbents

• Agfa HealthCare: European hospital IT and imaging vendor with EHR and integration offerings serving hospitals across DACH and wider Europe — broad incumbent comparable to the i-engineers' hospital digitization focus.
• MEDITECH: Established hospital EHR vendor serving community and mid-sized hospitals; competes in the same hospital digitization space as the i-engineers, particularly across North America and parts of Europe.
• Oracle Health (formerly Cerner): Global hospital EHR incumbent whose interoperability and integration capabilities increasingly overlap with standalone platforms like health-engine, especially in large health systems.
• Siemens Healthineers (Digital Health): Diversified healthcare technology provider whose hospital digital offerings (including teamplay and EHR-adjacent solutions) overlap with parts of health-engine's hospital process digitization scope.
• Epic Systems: Dominant US-centric hospital EHR vendor whose Care Everywhere interoperability product competes with standalone cross-institutional platforms like health-engine in larger health systems.

Emerging players

• NextGate: Healthcare identity and interoperability vendor focused on patient matching, EMPI, and cross-institutional data sharing — adjacent technology overlap with health-engine's Clinical Data Repository and interoperability stack.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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