From hospital data to the factory floor
The architecture we used to move sensitive data between European health systems now gives owner-run manufacturers a live, trusted picture of their business.
PPCN · November 2026
A hospital and a factory look like different worlds. In both, the people at the top make decisions on figures they cannot fully trust, because the figures pass through spreadsheets nobody owns.
In European health programmes we spent years on one question: how do you move sensitive data between organisations so that every figure has a source and every use is recorded? The answer was architecture first: a checked copy of the source, a record of who did what, and nothing changed without a named person's approval.
We now build the same thing for manufacturers. The ERP stays where it is. Every night a checked copy is taken and compared with the original. On top of that copy we build what the owner actually needs: a page that shows late jobs and why, loss per job and department, customers who have gone quiet, and month-end figures that come from production instead of a clerk's spreadsheet.
The discipline is the same as in the health programmes. Every calculation is tested against an answer known in advance. What is established and what is suspected are worded differently. The machine proposes; a person in the company signs.
This is what the industry calls a digital twin. For an owner-run company it means something simple: the business, visible on one page, with figures that can be traced back to their source.
The same approach runs our event work. For MIT Hacking Medicine Malaysia 2026 we replaced three spreadsheets with one operations system within days: plan, sponsors, tickets reconciled daily, decisions and risks.
If your figures pass through more spreadsheets than you would like, we can show what a two-week discovery finds.