Frequenty asked questions

Amalga is a modular hospital information system (HIS) that connects clinical, administrative, and operational workflows into a single platform.

Modules for patient administration, clinical management, surgical management, revenue cycle management, inventory, and patient experience, and can be rolled out one by one or grouped together.

Amalga is built for hospitals and multi-site hospital networks that need a standards-based HIS without the cost and rigidity of legacy enterprise systems. It is particularly suited to hospitals in South East Asia and New Zealand.

Current deployments include private hospital groups (Sun Group, Vinmec), public health systems (Te Whatu Ora / Health New Zealand), and specialty hospitals (Rutnin Eye Hospital, Kaweka Hospital).

Amalga is modular and standards-based, so a hospital adopts the modules it needs on its own timeframe rather than committing to a single multi-year replacement programme. Each module goes live and delivers value on its own, and connects to existing systems through HL7 and FHIR interfaces. Scope, cost and clinical disruption stay contained to one module at a time.

Amalga is owned by McCrae Tech (founded by Ian McCrae, who also founded Orion Health).

Amalga supports both on-premise and cloud-hosted deployments. Hospitals can choose based on their infrastructure, data residency requirements, or existing IT investment.

For multiple hospital rollouts, Amalga can be hosted in a multi-tenant cloud.

Amalga uses a hub-and-spoke model for fast time-to-value across multi-site hospital networks.

A central hub coordinates shared data and workflows while individual sites retain local configuration. This accelerates deployment and helps manage costs.

No. Amalga is modular by design. Hospitals can roll out one or several modules (Patient Administration, Clinicals, Surgical, Revenue Cycle, Inventory, Patient Experience) on a timeframe that suits rather than committing to a full-suite implementation upfront.

For multi-site hospital networks, the first site rollout typically takes six months with every additional hospital coming on board within 10 weeks.

Amalga is built on HL7 and FHIR standards. It exposes open APIs and maps to FHIR R4, HL7 v2/v3 and SNOMED CT, so hospitals can plug into national and regional exchange platforms. This means Amalga integrates with the systems a hospital already runs, rather than requiring a rip-and-replace of existing infrastructure.

Yes. Amalga adapts to local languages, regulations, and clinical workflows. Current deployments operate in New Zealand, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar with local teams supporting them.

Yes. Amalga includes dedicated AI features: Scribe for ambient documentation and dictation, Pre-admission screening, and Revenue leakage detection for complete revenue capture.