What Healthtech 1 does

Healthtech-1 Limited is a UK-based healthcare automation startup founded in 2021 by Pete Huang (ex-Monzo) and Raj Kohli (ex-Accenture), operating from a co-located workspace inside a working NHS GP practice in Stratford, East London. The company builds robotic process automation (RPA) software that simulates keystrokes and mouse clicks to automate administrative tasks within EMIS Web and SystmOne, the two dominant UK GP clinical systems. Its core products are Automated Registrations (saving 15 minutes of staff time per new patient by filing structured data including SNOMED coding directly into clinical systems), Automated Lab Filing (automating ~20% of normal and abnormal lab result processing), and the Bookable suite (Bookable Search for practice discovery and the in-development Bookable Navigator for AI-driven patient triage and routing).

The company sells primarily to NHS GP practices via a self-serve product-led growth motion at £2.50 per automated registration with no setup, training, or license fees, layered with enterprise sales to NHS Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) for multi-practice rollouts (e.g., NHS South East London ICB covering 140 practices, NHS Surrey & Sussex ICB). As of 2025, the platform is live in over 1,600 GP practices representing 25% of England's total, has automated more than 5 million patient registrations, and has demonstrated an independently evaluated £1.48 return per £1 invested. The company is a selected supplier for the NHS England Register with a GP service and holds DCB0129 and DCB0160 clinical safety and governance certifications. It is backed by Y Combinator (W23 batch) and Moonfire Ventures, with disclosed funding exceeding £6M across a September 2023 seed round and a July 2024 follow-on.

Name

Healthtech 1

Legal name

Healthtech-1 Limited

Website

https://healthtech1.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Healthtech-1 is a UK healthtech startup that automates NHS GP practice administration — including patient registrations, lab report filing, and patient triage — using RPA integrated with EMIS and SystmOne, serving 1,600+ practices (25% of England's total).

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Automation Software (Primary Care RPA)

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Patient Intake, Digital Registration & eForms (HLACAEAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Medical Billing & Coding Automation (HLACACAA), Adherence, Reminders & Engagement Automation (Medication/Follow-up) (HLACAEAJ), Medical Device Connectivity & Interoperability Middleware (MDI, EHR/HL7/FHIR Integration) (HLACAPAJ)

Keywords

• Healthcare automation software
• Patient registration automation
• GP practice administration
• Lab report filing
• Primary care RPA

Headquarters

HQ city

England

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Per-Transaction Registration Fees: Charges £2.50 per automated registration (plus VAT) for individual GP practices. No setup, training, or license fees. This is the primary revenue stream from automated patient registrations.
2. Bulk/Practice Group Pricing: For groups of practices, federations, or ICBs, custom pricing is offered to achieve economy of scale. NHS South East London ICB and Surrey & Sussex ICB have funded deployments across multiple practices.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Healthtech-1 provides a healthcare automation platform that uses Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and doctor-developed AI to automate administrative tasks in NHS GP practices. Its core products — Automated Registrations, Automated Lab Filing, and the Bookable suite — file patient data and lab reports directly into EMIS and SystmOne clinical systems, handle patient onboarding and care navigation, and are deployed across more than 1,600 practices in England.

Product overview

Healthtech-1 is a healthcare automation platform comprising three main product lines: Automated Registrations (flagship product automating new patient onboarding with 15+ years of staff time saved), Automated Lab Filing (clinical admin automation for test result filing), and Bookable (patient access suite including Bookable Search for practice discovery and Bookable Navigator for intelligent triage). The products are unified by a central Hub dashboard providing real-time analytics. All automations integrate natively with EMIS Web and SystmOne clinical systems. The platform has achieved 25% market penetration across England's GP practices and is expanding from UK primary care automation toward becoming the world's most advanced healthcare automation platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Bookable: Product helping patients find the right care, first time. Includes Bookable Search for new patients and Bookable Navigator for existing patients.
• Automated Registrations
• Automated Lab Reports
• Sanny

Products and services

• Automated Registrations Automates new patient registration for NHS GP practices, saving 15 minutes of staff time per registration, enabling same-day patient onboarding (vs. 3-4 day manual process), collecting 99+ data points with SNOMED coding, and writing data directly into EMIS and SystmOne clinical systems. Handles newborn, child, no-NHS-number, and previously registered patients, with Patient Signals flagging safeguarding and health risks and 17-language multilingual support.
• Automated Lab Filing Automates lab report and test result filing for NHS GP practices, currently able to process approximately 20% of normal and abnormal results, routing results to the appropriate clinicians and filing them directly into clinical systems to save doctor time.
• Bookable Search Helps NHS GP practices be found by new patients for the first time, enabling list growth in line with clinical capacity. Features Slot Manager for appointment surfacing, built-in care navigation, GDPR-compliant consent management, and NHS Spine integration to trace patients and produce a personalised transfer page.
• Bookable Navigator Intelligent triage and booking tool that accepts patient requests via form, text message, WhatsApp, or voice, uses doctor-developed AI to perform dynamic questioning and free-text analysis, and routes patients to the appropriate care with automated appointment booking. Requests needing human review land in a practice inbox.

Quantifiable outcome

• 15 minutes staff time saved per registration (500% increase in coded registration data)
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability8 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• NHS England (Register with a GP Service)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealthtech-1 is a selected supplier of automation for the NHS England Register with a GP service. This enables practices to accept registrations directly through the NHS Find a GP service without the admin burden of processing registration forms manually.
• DigitalHealth.London AcceleratorsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerAccepted onto the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator program which provides shortcuts to customers and valuable branding for healthtech startups.
• Health Innovation Network South LondonsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvided funding for Lambeth GP Federation pilot through Health Innovation Network South London's automation grants scheme.
• Health Innovation Kent Surrey SussexsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupported the evaluation of Surrey & Sussex ICB Automated Registrations rollout, commissioning Unity Insights for independent analysis.
• EMIS and SystmOne (Clinical Systems)coreTechnology or IntegrationHealthtech-1 integrates with EMIS and SystmOne clinical systems to automate patient registration and lab report filing. Automations create patient records directly in these systems, eliminating manual data entry.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• accuRx: accuRx is the leading patient-communications and GP-workflow platform for NHS primary care, offering SMS, video consultations, and increasingly admin automation. Directly comparable to Healthtech-1 as both target NHS GP practices for workflow automation; notably, Healthtech-1's founding clinician Dr Lydia van Hamel-Parsons was accuRx's second employee.
• eConsult Health: eConsult provides online consultation, triage and admin tools for NHS GP practices and is widely deployed across UK primary care. Directly comparable to Healthtech-1's Automated Registrations and Bookable Navigator as a digital front door and triage layer in NHS GP practices.
• iPlato Healthcare: iPlato provides patient engagement, messaging and access tools to NHS GP practices. Comparable to Healthtech-1 as an automation and patient-communications platform serving the same NHS primary-care customer base with adjacent workflow automation use cases.
• MJog: MJog delivers patient messaging, appointment reminders and recall services to UK GP practices. Directly comparable as an automation and patient-communications tool targeting NHS primary care, addressing similar admin-burden pain points to Healthtech-1.

Broad incumbents

• EMIS Group: EMIS Group provides EMIS Web, the dominant UK GP clinical system that Healthtech-1's RPA integrates into. Comparable as the incumbent platform whose workflows Healthtech-1 automates; EMIS could plausibly embed registration automation natively, posing a long-term platform risk.
• TPP: TPP provides SystmOne, the other major UK GP clinical system that Healthtech-1's RPA integrates into. Comparable as the incumbent platform provider; same platform-level risk as EMIS — SystmOne could evolve to natively handle automated registration workflows.
• Babylon Health (eMed): Babylon/eMed is a large digital-health and telehealth platform with NHS GP contracts. Comparable as a broader NHS-facing digital primary-care platform, though focused on consultations rather than admin automation; represents a potential adjacent competitor if it expands into workflow automation.

Emerging players

• Lantum: Lantum provides workforce management and scheduling tools for NHS GP practices and federations. Comparable as a UK primary-care operational platform with overlapping NHS customer base and shared admin-burden thesis, though focused on staffing rather than patient-facing admin.
• Patchwork Health: Patchwork Health provides staffing, rota and workforce solutions for NHS organisations. Comparable as a UK healthtech startup serving NHS primary care with operational/admin automation, though focused on clinician staffing rather than patient registration or triage.
• Push Doctor: Push Doctor provides online GP consultations via the NHS. Comparable as an NHS digital primary-care provider with some overlap in patient access and triage workflows that intersect with Healthtech-1's Bookable Navigator product.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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