We are building the tool that was missing in practice.
AutaVia grows out of three perspectives that rarely sit at the same table in everyday care: medicine, nursing and software engineering. That is not a marketing line-up – it is the reason the product looks the way it does.
Why a physician builds a care app
In general practice you see the result of instruction, not the instruction itself. You see the compression stocking that sits wrong. The wound that developed differently than expected. The relative who took on something he was not allowed to take on – not out of carelessness, but because nobody was there who could have said so.
Between the prescription and what actually happens at home lies a gap that is mapped nowhere in the system. Care standards exist; they sit in binders. At the point of care, in the moment of action, that helps no one.
AutaVia starts exactly there. Not as yet another documentation software, but as guidance during the activity – and with a boundary that stays clearly visible: what a qualification level is not allowed to do is not instructed, but handed over.
The people behind it
A small team with clearly separated responsibilities – medical, nursing, technical.
Specialist in internal and general medicine, twelve years in general practice with a high share of home visits. Responsible for the professional content of the care programmes, the distinction between SGB V and SGB XI, and the approval procedure for every instructed measure.
“I saw the consequences of wrong instruction before I ever thought of an app. That is why the competence boundary is not a feature for us – it is the foundation.”
Registered nurse, head of nursing in home care, and practice instructor. Brings in what a visit realistically needs: timing, sequence, material routes – and where guidance only gets in the way of a real working day.
“If an app costs two minutes and saves one, nobody uses it. We measure every step against that.”
Managing director of Ambos Development GmbH in Hamburg, with years of building platforms and dedicated hosting. Responsible for architecture, data storage and operations – exclusively on our own dedicated infrastructure in Germany, with no hyperscaler in the processing chain.
“Health data does not belong in a chain of subcontractors that nobody can oversee anymore.”
Four commitments we do not negotiate
Professional approval before release
No care programme goes live without medical and nursing review. That also applies to every translated version – automated translation of safety-relevant content is checked, not passed through.
The competence boundary is hard
AutaVia does not instruct anything the signed-in role is not authorised for. A locked step stays visible so it is clear who takes it over – simply hiding it would be more convenient and worse.
Hypotheses are called hypotheses
Time savings and confidence in action are our assumptions, not results. Testing them is the subject of the trial year. We maintain this distinction in all communication.
Data only for the evidence
We collect usage and progress data to prove the nursing benefit. No resale, no advertising profiles, processing in Germany.
Where we stand — and what comes next.
The foundation is in place, the MVP is in progress. Public, because we are looking for pilot services and a scientific partner.
Foundation
Role and competence matrix created and professionally validated, product boundary between DiPA and B2B defined, first care programmes professionally approved.
MVP
nowPaced visit guidance, audio and video instruction, role logic and the first three languages. Talks with pilot services are running in parallel.
Pilot and evidence building
Use with two to three home care services in real operation. Data module in production, evaluation concept finalised with a scientific partner, data protection concept according to BfArM criteria.
BfArM application
Application for provisional inclusion in the DiPA directory under the trial procedure of § 78a SGB XI.
Trial year
Proof of effectiveness in live operation, with parallel remuneration negotiations with the GKV-Spitzenverband.
B2B track from Q1 2027
Direct sales to care services — role control, onboarding, prescription scan and documentation. Revenue-generating before the DiPA is listed.
Scientific partner
Without a robust evaluation concept there is no trial procedure. This is currently the only point that could postpone the application date.
We are looking for pilot services and a scientific partner.
If you run a home care service, work in health services research, or provide care and want to tell us something: write to us.