Inside Better Marketplace: where Sign on Tab connects to the wider digital health ecosystem
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Most healthcare organisations don’t buy one system and stop there. Over time, a hospital or clinic ends up running a patient administration system, an EHR, a handful of specialty tools, and whatever new application solves this year’s most pressing problem. The hard part has never been building good software. It’s finding software that actually fits together, clinically, technically, and in terms of who owns the data underneath it.
That’s the problem Better Marketplace is built to solve. And it’s why Sign on Tab is listed there.
What is Better?
Better is a digital health platform provider, built on standards rather than proprietary formats. Its foundation rests on openEHR and FHIR, which means clinical data is structured, semantically rich, and searchable from day one, not locked inside whichever application happened to capture it. On top of that foundation sit low-code tools and a design system for building applications, a marketplace of ready-to-deploy clinical apps, and a governance framework that keeps clinicians in control of what gets built and how.
The scale is huge: Better Platform is in use across 1,000+ care providers and 30+ countries, connecting more than 40 million patient records. Its customers include national and regional health systems such as the Republic of Slovenia’s Ministry of Health, Greece’s national EHR, and the City of London’s Universal Care Plan. Also – individual trusts and hospitals including Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Universitätsspital Basel, and Karolinska University Hospital.
In IDC 2025 MarketScape: EMEA Healthcare Data Platforms for Providers 2025 Vendor Assessment, Better was named a Leader — the report noting that “Better’s emphasis on data control, interoperability, and clinician-friendly application development positions it as a high-impact innovator in Europe’s healthcare digital transformation efforts.” IDC’s broader research points to why this category matters right now: health data platforms rank among the top three areas EMEA providers plan to invest in over the next two years, driven as much by the need for integration as by the push toward AI-driven, scalable care.
What Better Marketplace actually is?
Better Marketplace is the shared library that sits alongside Better Platform: ready-made clinical applications, forms, widgets, and content bundles, backed by a community of developers and clinical informaticians who build on and contribute to it. You can browse Better Marketplace here without a login. Studio-compatible assets also appear in Better Studio, where you can import them straight into your project and adapt them.
What makes it different from simply browsing app store listings is the architecture underneath. Because Better separates clinical data from the applications that use it, a hospital can add, swap, or retire a front-end tool from the marketplace without migrating or duplicating its underlying clinical data. For IT and clinical teams, that removes one of the biggest sources of hesitation around adopting new point solutions: the fear of creating another data silo, or of being locked into a vendor because switching later would mean a costly migration.
Assets that run on Better Platform inherit its access control and audit trail, so security and traceability come from the platform rather than from each tool separately.
Where Sign on Tab fits in
Sign on Tab is listed on Better Marketplace as a digital consent and document-signing solution for healthcare providers, built around the same principle that Better Platform is designed on: that healthcare data should be captured once and structured for reuse, not trapped in a scanned document or a static PDF.
In practice, that means Sign on Tab doesn’t stop at replacing a handwritten signature with an electronic one. Patients complete structured, healthcare-specific templates, consent forms, intake documents, nursing and procedure notes, on a tablet at the point of care, with built-in identity verification and mandatory-field validation before anything is submitted. From there, two-way HIS integration and Metadata Exchange move the captured information back into the organisation’s own systems, and SDK / Web SDK options let the same signing and template functionality be embedded directly into existing software.
That’s the same idea Better Marketplace exists to support applications that add real clinical value on their own, while staying interoperable with everything else a healthcare organisation already runs.
Explore the marketplace
If your organization is evaluating digital health tools, Better Marketplace is a good place to see what a standards-based, interoperable app ecosystem looks like in practice, and to see how Sign on Tab fits into it.
