Control antibiotic guidelines at a national level
Antibiotica.app is a platform used by medical organizations to manage clinical antibiotic recommendations and deliver them to hospitals and doctors.
Platform overview
Antibiotica.app is a platform for managing clinical antibiotic recommendations across organizations, hospitals, and clinical teams.
It is used by organizations responsible for creating and maintaining clinical guidelines.
It supports the full lifecycle of clinical recommendations — from preparation to daily use in clinical practice.
The platform brings together
How the system works
National level
A central organization creates and maintains clinical recommendations.
Expert teams prepare content
Editors and reviewers work on updates
Publishing is controlled by chief editors
All changes are tracked and versioned
This establishes a single source of recommendations.
Hospital level
Hospitals operate their own environments connected to the national platform.
Receive all recommendations
Are notified about updates
Can review and adopt changes
Hospitals can adapt recommendations to local protocols or add their own content.
Doctor level
Doctors access recommendations through the system interface.
Search by disease, symptom, or antibiotic
Navigate through structured content
Access linked information in one place
Information is organized and connected within a single system.
Platform capabilities
Content is stored as structured data, ensuring consistent formatting and clear links between recommendations, medications, and supporting materials — keeping content reusable and maintainable.
Designed for expert teams working on clinical content, with built-in review, commenting, and controlled publishing. Full version history and a transparent workflow keep every change accountable.
Recommendations are published from a central platform and automatically distributed to all connected hospitals — with full visibility of changes before they are adopted.
Beyond clinical recommendations, the platform supports general content needs — pages, documents, and navigation — all managed within the same system.
Each hospital operates its own platform, with custom branding, local configuration, and the ability to extend content. National recommendations can be adopted as-is or adjusted to local needs, and hospitals can create their own additional protocols.
Provided as a fully managed service, with hosting, system operations, and backups all taken care of.
AI assists with translating medical content and preparing structured materials, with all outputs reviewed by experts before publication.
Supporting organisations from initial setup
We work with organizations from the early stages of building their clinical guideline systems.
This includes:
Organizing expert teams and roles
Defining workflows for content creation and review
Structuring clinical recommendations
Setting up governance and publishing processes
We support the transition from initial materials to a working, structured system.
Our role typically includes:
The result is a system that is in active use and can be maintained and developed over time.
Track record
Antibiotica.app is developed and maintained by VMC, a Dutch company with more than 20 years of experience working with healthcare organizations.
The focus has been on building systems that support clinical processes and reduce operational overhead, allowing medical teams to spend less time on administrative work.
The Netherlands — SWAB
The Antibiotica.app platform powers SWAB-ID, the national Dutch platform for antimicrobial treatment recommendations, maintained in close collaboration with SWAB.
It is used across a national network consisting of a central platform and approximately 60 hospital environments. The system is used by around 80% of hospitals in the country and currently generates over 200,000 page views per month.
The platform functions as a central system for maintaining and distributing antibiotic recommendations across this network.
The Dutch national implementation is available through two dedicated environments:
- Adult recommendations: adult.nl.antibiotica.app
- Pediatric recommendations: children.nl.antibiotica.app
Belgium — SBIMC-BVIKM
Over the past three years, the platform has been introduced in collaboration with SBIMC-BVIKM (Belgian Interdisciplinary Committee for Monitoring of Antimicrobial Consumption).
The work started with transitioning legacy materials — including PDFs and spreadsheets — into a structured system. Today, the platform is used by more than 80 hospitals.
It supports centralized content management, controlled distribution, and a managed access model based on institutional licensing.
The adult version of the platform is available at adult.be.antibiotica.app.
A pediatric version is currently being populated with content and is undergoing validation prior to launch.
Explore the platform
If your organization is working with clinical guidelines at a national or institutional level, we would be glad to share how Antibiotica.app is used in practice.
We can walk you through the platform, discuss your current process, and show how the system could support your teams, hospitals, and clinical users.
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