Choosing a healthcare software vendor turns on one question most comparison pages skip: which compliance claims are audited by an independent party, and which are the vendor’s own assessment of itself. Both get written the same way in marketing copy. They are not the same thing, and in a procurement review the difference is the whole conversation.
HIPAA has no certification scheme and no certifying body, so no vendor can be “HIPAA certified”, whatever a sales page says.
These involve an outside auditor and produce a report or certificate with a date on it.
Publish a claim to an audited certification. The rest describe compliance, experience or familiarity with standards.
This page compares firms currently visible on Google for healthcare software development, using only facts each company publishes on its own website. We are one of the firms listed, so treat that as a declared interest rather than a hidden one.
Certified, or self-assessed? The distinction that matters
“HIPAA compliant” is a self-assessment. HIPAA has no certification scheme and no certifying body, so no software and no vendor can be “HIPAA certified”, whatever a sales page says. SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 13485 and HITRUST are different: they involve an independent auditor and produce a report or certificate with a date on it.
Of the seven firms we checked, two publish claims to an audited certification. The rest describe HIPAA compliance, years of experience, or familiarity with standards. That is not a criticism. It is simply a different claim, and you should know which one you are buying.
What each firm publishes about itself
| Firm | Location as stated | Audited certifications claimed | Other healthcare claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sthenos Technologies | Tysons, Virginia, with an office in North Bethesda, Maryland | None claimed for healthcare | EDWOSB and WOSB certified small business; active SAM.gov registration |
| ScienceSoft | States “Headquartered in the US”; McKinney, Texas | States ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27701 and ISO 13485, describing these as “independently audited practices” | “In healthcare IT since 2005” |
| OSP Labs | Lists offices in California, Texas, Florida, Maryland and Mumbai; no headquarters stated | States “AICPA SOC 2 Type II Certified”, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001:2015 | “16+ Years of Healthcare Experience” |
| Itransition | Lists an office in Decatur, Georgia; no headquarters stated | None claimed | “25+ years of experience in healthcare IT”; experience with HIPAA and HITECH delivery; FDA classes II and III and IEC 62304 |
| MojoTech | Lists Providence RI, Boulder CO and New York; no headquarters stated | None claimed | States it is a “100% US-based software development agency”; describes “custom HIPAA-compliant solutions” |
| A&I Solutions | Lists an address in Suwanee, Georgia; no headquarters stated | None claimed | Describes “SOC 2 Type II aligned hosting” and “ONC-certification-track” rollouts, which are alignment and roadmap claims rather than certifications held |
| Abstracta | States “headquarters in different parts of the world”; lists a Jacksonville, Florida office | None claimed | “nearly 20 years of experience” |
| Clarity Ventures | Lists an address in Austin, Texas; no headquarters stated | None claimed | “building HIPAA-compliant portals and marketplaces for over 10 years” |
Two notes on reading that table. Only ScienceSoft states a headquarters; for every other firm we found an office address but no headquarters statement, so those cells say “lists an office” rather than putting words in anyone’s mouth. And no firm on this list claims HITRUST, which is worth knowing if a health system has asked you for it.
Where the engineers actually are
Only two of the seven state where their engineers work. MojoTech says it is “100% US-based”. ScienceSoft names office regions across the US, Mexico, Finland, Latvia, Poland, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The others list office addresses, which is not the same claim: an address in a country tells you a company has a presence there, not that your team will sit there.
This matters for healthcare specifically. Where protected health information is accessed from is a question your compliance team will ask, and the answer belongs in the statement of work, not in a sales call.
What to ask a healthcare software vendor
- Is that certification held, or aligned to? Ask for the certificate and its date. “Aligned”, “track” and “compliant” are all different words from “certified”, and vendors choose them carefully.
- Who signs the Business Associate Agreement, and does it cover subcontractors? If delivery is subcontracted, the BAA chain has to reach every party touching the data.
- Which EHR will we integrate with, and have you done that one? Epic, Oracle Health and MEDITECH have materially different interoperability paths, and general HL7 or FHIR experience is not the same as having shipped against the specific system you run.
- Where will engineers access PHI from? Get the country in the contract.
- What happens to the data and the code at the end? Deletion, export and credential return should be defined before work starts.
Method, and its limits
Every fact above was taken from the company’s own website in August 2026. Clutch, Wikipedia, Crunchbase and press coverage were deliberately not used, because none of these firms controls what those say and they go stale. Where a company does not publish something, the cell says so rather than carrying an estimate.
Claims are attributed, not asserted: where a firm states it holds a certification, we report that it states it, because we have seen the claim and not the certificate. Company sites also change, so anything here is accurate as of the date it was checked and no longer.
If you are scoping a healthcare build and want the compliance questions worked through properly, talk to our engineers, or read our healthcare software development overview and what healthcare software costs.