Vula Medical

Vula Medical is a medically compliant communication and referral platform for health professionals and care teams who need to chat, refer, and collaborate on patient care across facilities.

Key capabilities include:

• Secure referral and chat between health workers, supporting direct and group conversations while handling medico-legal data compliance (including HIPAA and POPIA).
• Structured referrals by specialty, helping clinicians send complete clinical details and reduce back-and-forth when transferring or escalating care.
• Clinical information sharing, including images (for example, clinical photos) and ongoing case updates to support collaboration with specialists and multidisciplinary teams.
• Service and performance insight, with analytics and monthly referral data that facilities can use to monitor referral patterns and manage services.

Available on Android, iOS, and Huawei AppGallery.

It is used by public and private healthcare facilities, clinical teams, and health system partners (including NGOs), with downstream benefits for patients who need timely access to the right level of care.

The product is notable in South Africa’s healthcare context for connecting district and rural providers to higher levels of care, and it reports 3M+ patient referrals, usage across 2.5k+ facilities, and support for 105 health professional categories.