Canadian healthcare deserves Canadian infrastructure.

The people who founded Solstice have spent their careers working with clinicians, administrators, and health information systems across Ontario, which adds up to a few decades of watching these systems used in real practices and real hospitals.

What we saw, year after year, was good clinicians giving up their evenings to documentation, administrators moving between systems that had no way of talking to each other, and patients waiting on hold to arrange something that should have taken ten seconds on a phone.

None of this was anyone’s fault in particular. The software was designed for a different era of medicine, and the distance between what it does and what a practice needs has been growing for years.

Most of these systems were also built for American healthcare first, where billing goes through private insurers and health privacy law is federal. What reaches Canada is that same product configured after the fact, with OHIP billing, PHIPA, and the provincial lab and drug networks fitted around the edges of an American design.

We think the next generation of clinical software has to be built from scratch, with AI in the design from the beginning and Canadian practice as its foundation.

That meant starting from an empty repository.