EPD

What EPD does

EPD (Payvand Data Communication Company, or Etela'at Rashani Peivand Dadeha) is an Iranian healthcare IT company founded in May 1998 and headquartered in Tehran. It develops and operates a four-product healthcare software suite: Payvand HIS (a modular Hospital Information System with basic, paraclinical, data exchange, specialized, and auxiliary modules), Payvand PACS (a DICOM 3-compliant picture archiving and communication system running on Linux, with Teleradiology, Diagnostic Workstation, Dental PACS, Print Server, CD Robot, and Enterprise PACS sub-products), Payvand BI (operational, management, and centralized multi-center business intelligence dashboards), and a SaaS Appointment System. The company's products are interoperable via HL7 and DICOM 3 standards and integrate with Iran's national SEPAS electronic health record system, bank POS terminals, and Social Security and Health Insurance web services.

EPD's primary customers are government medical universities and affiliated hospitals across Iran, with eight publicly named deployments including Qom, Tabriz, Zahedan, Birjand, Kerman, Jiroft, Iranshahr, and Arak; the company also serves private healthcare facilities and exports to regional Middle East markets. Go-to-market is direct enterprise sales with implementation, support, and software maintenance included. The revenue model is a mix of subscription-based SaaS delivery for the new cloud revisions of HIS, Appointment, and select modules, plus custom software development and licensing of legacy products. EPD is the first Windows-based HIS developer in Iran, holds knowledge-based enterprise status for HIS and PACS products, is ranked #1 in custom software development and #3 in software packages by the Management and Planning Organization, and holds ISO 9001, ISO 10004, HL7, and SEPAS compliance certifications. The latest HIS, Appointment, and security server revisions have been delivered as multi-platform SaaS (mobile, tablet, desktop) on cloud infrastructure.

Name

EPD

Legal name

شرکت اطلاع رسانی پیوند داده ها

Website

https://epd.ir

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

EPD is an Iranian healthcare IT company that develops and sells HIS, PACS, BI, and Appointment SaaS products primarily to government medical universities and affiliated hospitals across Iran, with additional regional exports to the Middle East.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare IT Software (Hospital Information Systems)

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Provider ERP (Hospital Operations, Supply Chain, Finance) (HDAEAEAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

ePrescribing, Lab/Imaging Orders & Results Integration (HLALAKAJ), Healthcare Billing & Patient Payments Presentment (FSAMAJAH)

Keywords

• Hospital information systems
• Medical imaging software
• Healthcare business intelligence
• PACS solutions
• Healthcare SaaS platforms

Headquarters

HQ city

Tehran

HQ country

Iran

HQ region

Middle East

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. SaaS Healthcare Software Services: Software-as-a-Service delivery model on cloud computing platform. Customers pay for services received without responsibility for hardware, software, security, backup, or database management. Server hardware, operating systems, and applications maintained by provider.
2. Custom Software Development: Custom customer software production. Company ranked 1st in custom software development from Management and Planning Organization of Iran.
3. Appointment System Services: SaaS-based appointment system provided as service rather than software sale. Includes support, security, and hardware responsibilities.
4. Software Licensing and Export: Product exports to regional countries in the Middle East. Licensing of HIS and PACS products to international healthcare facilities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

EPD develops and sells integrated healthcare IT software for hospitals, medical universities, and clinical centers in Iran. Its flagship products include the Payvand HIS (Hospital Information System), Payvand PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System), Payvand BI (Business Intelligence for Healthcare), and Payvand Appointment System, delivered as both on-premise deployments and SaaS on cloud infrastructure.

Product overview

EPD (Etela'at Rashani Peivand Dadeha) is Iran's largest specialized electronic health IT company, founded in 1998. Its product portfolio is organized as four integrated core products: (1) Payvand HIS — a comprehensive, 20+ year hospital information management system with a modular puzzle-piece architecture covering basic, paraclinical, data exchange, specialized, and auxiliary programs; (2) Payvand PACS — a DICOM 3 standard picture archiving and communication system with sub-modules for teleradiology, diagnostic workstation, dental PACS, print server, software CD robot, and enterprise PACS; (3) Payvand BI — a business intelligence and analytics platform with operational/management dashboards and centralized multi-center strategic dashboards; and (4) Payvand Appointment System — a SaaS cloud-based scheduling system with bidirectional HIS integration. All four products are available both as traditional deployments and as SaaS/cloud services. EPD also produces custom healthcare software and provides software support and maintenance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Payvand HIS: The Hospital Information System (HIS) product line of EPD, described as Iran's first Windows-based hospital management information system, serving from small polyclinics to large medical complexes.
• Payvand PACS
• Payvand BI
• Payvand Appointment System

Products and services

• Payvand HIS (Hospital Information System - سامانه مدیریت اطلاعات بهداشتی درمانی پیوند) Modular hospital information management system covering clinical, administrative, financial, and insurance workflows from small polyclinics to large medical complexes. The latest revision is delivered as SaaS on cloud infrastructure with mobile, tablet, and desktop support. Targets hospitals, universities of medical sciences, and healthcare networks in Iran.
• Payvand PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System - پکس پیوند) DICOM 3-compliant medical imaging server and viewer that connects to standard imaging modalities, receives DICOM images, and stores/transmits them on a Linux platform. Includes teleradiology, diagnostic workstation, dental PACS, enterprise PACS, and print server components. Targets hospitals, imaging centers, and multi-center university healthcare networks.
• Payvand BI (Business Intelligence in Healthcare - هوش تجاری در حوزه سلامت) Technology-driven business intelligence and analytics platform for healthcare organizations, providing operational dashboards (real-time hospital metrics), management dashboards, and centralized multi-center strategic dashboards. Includes comparative analytics across financial, diagnostic, pharmaceutical, clinical, and operational domains with nested drill-down capabilities. Targets hospital managers and healthcare network administrators.
• Payvand Appointment System (سامانه نوبت دهی پیوند) Cloud-based SaaS appointment scheduling system for healthcare centers with OWASP Level 4 security, bidirectional HIS integration, Ministry of Health compliance, and web-based UI supporting mobile, tablet, PC, and kiosk installation. Includes multi-center centralized management and supports internet, intranet, and referral appointment modes. Targets hospitals, polyclinics, and specialty clinics.

Quantifiable outcome

• Highest ranking among medical informatics companies in Iran
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Iryana IT and Communications Group (کنسرسیوم ایریانا)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the Electronic Health Insurance System project based on smart health cards (Pilot project in Gilan Province). EPD contributed as part of a consortium for the systematic study on economic evaluation of e-health and smart health card implementation.
• Dr. Shahram Tofighi - Healthcare Economics GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProject manager from Healthcare Economics Research Group, Tehran Amir-Kabir University. Led the economic evaluation study of electronic health and smart health card implementation.
• Ministry of Health - SEPAS SystemcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with Iran's national electronic health record system (SEPAS). Company's systems connect to the national health information exchange platform.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Sectra: Medical imaging IT vendor specializing in PACS and radiology workflow. Directly comparable to EPD's Payvand PACS, teleradiology, and enterprise imaging offerings.
• Carestream Health: Provider of healthcare IT solutions including PACS and radiology information systems. Directly comparable to EPD's PACS suite and diagnostic imaging modules.
• Oracle Health (formerly Cerner): Global enterprise HIS and EHR vendor competing for large hospital networks. Directly comparable to EPD's HIS offering, with overlap on hospital operations, clinical, and financial modules.
• Veradigm (formerly Allscripts): Enterprise EHR and hospital information system vendor. Comparable to EPD across hospital EHR, analytics, and integration to financial/billing systems.
• INFINITT Healthcare: PACS, RIS, and radiology workflow vendor. Comparable to EPD's PACS, teleradiology, and DICOM worklist modules for imaging-centric healthcare IT.
• MEDITECH: Long-established hospital information system vendor for community and mid-size hospitals. Comparable to EPD's focus on hospital operations modules spanning clinical, financial, and administrative functions.
• Epic Systems: U.S.-based dominant HIS vendor for large hospital systems. Directly comparable to EPD as a comprehensive electronic health record suite for hospitals, though at vastly larger scale.
• InterSystems: Provider of TrakCare unified HIS and HealthShare interoperability platform. Closely comparable to EPD's HIS-plus-integration approach with HL7/DICOM/IHE standards at the core.

Broad incumbents

• Philips (Healthcare IT): Diversified healthcare technology incumbent offering imaging, PACS, clinical informatics, and telehealth. Comparable to EPD as a broader healthcare IT incumbent overlapping in imaging and clinical modules.
• GE HealthCare: Diversified medtech and healthcare IT incumbent with imaging, PACS, and hospital command-center solutions. Overlaps with EPD's imaging and enterprise PACS portfolio as part of a wider portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance9 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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