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Tracka vs Custom Solutions

Launch in Days, Not Years — Without the Engineering Burden

Building a custom SCD tracking system sounds appealing until you factor in the 12-18 month development timeline, ongoing maintenance costs, and the clinical domain expertise your development team lacks.

Feature Comparison

Tracka vs Custom Solutions: Side by Side

See how Tracka stacks up on the features that matter most for sickle cell disease programs.

FeatureTrackaCustom Solutions
Time to ProductionDays12-18 months
SCD Clinical ExpertiseBuilt-inMust hire consultants
Offline-First MobileComplex to build
Patient DeduplicationMust design algorithm
Ongoing MaintenanceIncludedDedicated team needed
Security & CompliancePre-certifiedMust implement
150+ ReportsDay oneBuild each one
Enterprise APIReadyMust design & build
Clinical-Grade AnonymizationMust implement
Regular Feature UpdatesContinuousWhen budget allows
Total Cost (Year 1)Subscription only$200K-500K+
Total Cost (Year 3)Subscription only$400K-800K+
Scale to New CountriesConfigurationRe-engineering
Multi-Tenant SupportMust architect
Key Advantages

Why Teams Choose Tracka

Here's what you get with Tracka that Custom Solutions simply can't deliver.

  • Production-ready in days instead of the 12-18 months it takes to build, test, and deploy a custom system
  • No engineering team needed — Tracka is fully managed SaaS with automatic updates, backups, and scaling
  • Clinical domain expertise is baked into every workflow, report, and validation rule — knowledge your dev team would need to acquire from scratch
  • Offline-first architecture that took years to perfect (Dexie sync, conflict resolution, background sync) — extremely difficult to build correctly from scratch
  • Patient deduplication using a proven fingerprint hash algorithm — designing an effective dedup system is a research problem, not just an engineering task
  • 150+ pre-built reports validated by SCD clinicians, vs building each report individually and hoping the metrics are correct
  • Total cost of ownership is a fraction of custom development when you include ongoing maintenance, hosting, security patches, and feature development
  • Scale to new countries and facilities through configuration — custom systems typically require re-engineering for each expansion
Migration Path

Switching from Custom Solutions Is Easy

Our dedicated migration team handles the heavy lifting so you can focus on patient care.

1
Share your existing data schema and sample exports with our migration team for assessment
2
We map your custom data structures to Tracka standardized clinical domains and identify any gaps
3
Patient data is bulk-imported with automatic deduplication to clean up existing duplicate records
4
Custom reports are replicated using Tracka pre-built templates or configured as custom dashboards
5
Your team receives role-appropriate training: administrators, clinicians, field agents, and analysts
6
API access is provided for any existing downstream systems that need to continue receiving data feeds

Ready to Upgrade from Custom Solutions?

See firsthand why organizations across Africa are switching to Tracka for sickle cell disease management.