Within the bustle of East London, inside a GP practice in Stratford lives Healthtech-1.
In 2021, school best friends Pete Huang and Raj Kohli turned a project helping Raj’s parents digitise their GP practice during pandemic into a mission to tackle one of the NHS’ biggest challenges: admin work.
Patients rate the Healthtech-1 registration process 9.8/10 on average and leave comments like: "Very warm and friendly, and handling everything online is so useful!", "Cannot believe how quick the registration happened", and "Really happy with the communication and it was extremely easy to register".
Human-error processing repetitive admin are gone with automation resulting in a 500% increase in coded registration data for practices. Data which GP practices use to set the patient up for success. The team has developed the product to now comfortably automate >95% of a practice’s registration workload.
Practices see real-time insights into the data behind registrations and can easily manage their registrations through Healthtech-1's Hub.
The new Health Secretary Wes Streeting told Wired, “[the NHS is] an analog system in a digital age.” and Labour’s manifesto acknowledged that: “a system reliant on pagers and fax machines is not fit for this decade let alone the next”.
The new Government’s vision of better access and capacity matches the reality Healthtech-1 is already making possible for GP practices across the country.
Over the last few months, Healthtech-1’s team has been building out their second product, Automated Lab Reports. Right now, they can automate about 20% of normal and abnormal results a GP practice receives. They’ve automated 20,975 across 31 practices to date.
If the team were to bring the lab report product to 46% of England's practices and automate 50% of a practice’s results, they would be adding the equivalent of 2 million appointments a year.
As they grow to reach the nation, the team are dedicating their £2.7m seed raise to the tough problem of fixing primary care with tech.
