Capcir

What Capcir does

Capcir is a privately held French healthcare software publisher founded in 1990 by psychiatrist Dr. Christian Bataille, headquartered in Mervilla near Toulouse and operating with 11-50 employees. The company designs, deploys, and hosts Hospital Information Systems (HIS/DPI) for the French healthcare market, with four core products targeting distinct care settings: CORTEXTE for psychiatric hospitals, CORPUS for MCO (medicine-surgery-obstetrics) facilities, CORSO for medico-social establishments, and eSoins as a patient portal supporting pre-admission, care pathway tracking, and administrative procedures. Solutions are built on a JAVA backend with VUE.JS frontend, ORACLE/MARIADB databases on LINUX infrastructure, and are delivered both on-premise and via SaaS with HDS (Hébergement de Données de Santé) certification. Capcir holds a stacked regulatory footprint including SÉGUR du Numérique referencing, HAS LAP certification (2016), ISO 13485 (2018), Hôpital Numérique label, and Qualiopi training certification (2022), and integrates with national systems such as DMP, Carte Vitale, INS, MS Santé, and HL7/FHIR.

The business model combines recurring software licensing and subscriptions with project-based professional services (auditing, configuration, integration, training, and ongoing support), sold through a direct enterprise field-sales motion to French public and private healthcare establishments. Capcir reports 45,000+ healthcare professional users across France, allocates 30% of its budget to R&D, and operates an annual Club Utilisateurs Cortexte (active since 1999) that functions as a customer co-development forum with pilot-site testing. Notable customer relationships span multiple decades (e.g., EPSM de la Marne 23+ years, CHS de Sarreguemines since 2003, EPSM de Caen across 50 sites), and quantifiable outcomes include a 99% reduction in medication preparation errors and 2 hours/day saved per care unit at reference sites.

Capcir monetises its installed base through software maintenance contracts, SaaS subscriptions, certified training (Qualiopi), and consulting. Distribution is entirely direct and concentrated in France, with no disclosed international expansion, no subsidiaries, no M&A activity, and no venture or private-equity capital. The company is family-owned and has remained independent throughout its 35-year operating history.

Name

Capcir

Legal name

CAPCIR

Website

https://capcir.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Capcir is a French healthcare software publisher founded in 1990 that develops patient information systems (DPI) for psychiatric hospitals, MCO acute-care facilities, and medico-social establishments across France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospital Information Systems (Healthcare Software)

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Health Care and Social Assistance (62)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

HIE Platforms & Network Services (Community/Regional/National) (HLACABAB)

Keywords

• Hospital information systems
• Patient record software
• Healthcare interoperability
• Medical informatics
• Clinical software solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Mervilla

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. DPI Software Licenses and Subscriptions: Capcir generates revenue through licensing and subscription fees for its DPI software solutions (CORTEXTE, CORPUS, CORSO, eSoins). The software is sold as on-premise deployments with associated maintenance and support contracts, as well as SaaS subscriptions with HDS-certified hosting.
2. Professional Services: Implementation, deployment, configuration, training, and technical support services are provided alongside software licensing. Services include: initial audits and scoping, project management, software configuration, integration with hospital information systems, user training, go-live support, and ongoing updates.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Capcir designs, develops, deploys, and hosts Hospital Information Systems (DPI — Dossier Patient Informatisé) for French healthcare establishments. Its flagship products are CORTEXTE for psychiatric hospitals, CORPUS for MCO (medicine-surgery-obstetrics) facilities, CORSO for medico-social institutions, and eSoins as a patient portal. Software is delivered either on-premise or as HDS-certified SaaS, with implementation, training, and ongoing support provided in-house.

Product overview

Capcir is a healthcare software publisher with 35 years of experience offering a comprehensive suite of DPI (Dossier Patient Informatisé) solutions. The product portfolio centers on four main software products: CORTEXTE for psychiatric establishments, CORPUS for MCO (acute care) establishments, CORSO for medico-social facilities, and eSoins as a patient portal for secure access to health records. These products share a common architecture emphasizing interoperability, modularity, data security, and compliance with French healthcare standards. The company also provides supplementary services including technical support, training (Qualiopi-certified), and consulting. Solutions are available both on-premises and via SaaS deployment with HDS-certified cloud hosting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CORTEXTE: Dossier Patient Informatisé (DPI) modulaire et interopérable pour la psychiatrie
• CORPUS
• CORSO
• eSoins

Products and services

• CORTEXTE Modular and interoperable Dossier Patient Informatisé (DPI/HIS) software designed for psychiatric hospitals, covering patient admission, certificate scheduling, isolation/restraint management, PMSI PSY activity collection, medication circuit, appointment scheduling, biological exam integration, and secure messaging.
• CORPUS Complete DPI solution for MCO (medicine-surgery-obstetrics) establishments, offering patient management with medical records, prescriptions, appointment scheduling, emergency modules, PMSI MCO reporting, DIM statistics, and shared agendas.

Quantifiable outcome

• Error rate in medication preparation reduced by 99% compared to manual methods (divided by 100)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration19 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Partner Healthcare Establishments (Pilot Sites)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative development through voluntary pilot sites that test new CORTEXTE applications before broader release. Part of Club Utilisateurs Cortexte community feedback loop.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Cegedim: Cegedim is a French health technology and services group whose healthcare IT division (including Maincare) provides HIS and related software to French hospitals. Comparable to Capcir as a broader healthcare IT incumbent serving the same customer base.
• Berger-Levrault: Berger-Levrault is a French public-sector software publisher with a healthcare division offering hospital management solutions. It is a broader incumbent operating across multiple verticals (education, local government, healthcare) with overlapping capability in French hospital IT.
• Enovacom (Orange Business): Enovacom, part of Orange Business, specializes in healthcare interoperability and data integration in France. It is comparable to Capcir's interoperability layer (DMP, HL7, FHIR integrations) but operates as part of a much larger telecom group's healthcare vertical.

Direct peers

• Dedalus: Dedalus is a leading European healthcare IT vendor offering hospital information systems across multiple European markets including France (formerly Medasys). It directly competes with Capcir in the French HIS/DPI market but operates at substantially greater scale and with a broader portfolio.
• Evolucare: Evolucare is a French healthcare software publisher offering HIS, radiology, and patient management solutions to French hospitals and clinics. It competes directly with Capcir in the French hospital IT market, with a comparable focus on French healthcare establishments.
• Softway Medical: Softway Medical is a French healthcare software publisher providing HIS solutions for MCO, SSR, and psychiatric establishments. It is a direct competitor to Capcir, particularly in MCO (CORPUS) and psychiatric (CORTEXTE) segments of the French hospital market.
• InterSystems (TrakCare): InterSystems provides the TrakCare unified health information system deployed in hospitals globally. It competes in the same French and European hospital EHR market as Capcir, with stronger international footprint but less specialization in psychiatric workflows.
• Maincare (Cegedim/Silae group): Maincare is a French HIS vendor serving public and private hospitals with DPI solutions. It competes directly with Capcir in the French hospital IT procurement market and benefits from broader group-level resources.

Regional players

• Xelya (Hospimedia Group): Xelya is a French healthcare software publisher focused on hospital pharmacy, sterilization, and traceability solutions. It is comparable to Capcir as a French regional software vendor serving hospital pharmacy and medication-circuit workflows, particularly overlapping with Capcir's CORPUS/CORTEXTE pharmacy modules.

Emerging players

• Epiconcept: Epiconcept is a French e-health company specializing in public health informatics, vaccination platforms, and health data interoperability. It is an emerging player with partial overlap to Capcir's interoperability and health data integration capabilities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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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