Huma acquires eConsult to advance digital healthcare in the UK

London-based scaleup Huma announced today the expansion of its digital healthcare solutions with the acquisition of eConsult. This is one of the UK’s largest digital triage and consultation platforms across primary and emergency care.

Founded in 2011, Huma works with healthcare providers and big pharma to improve clinical outcomes with digital solutions.

Since its founding, the company has been strategically expanding its portfolio of services, aiming to accelerate the digitalisation of healthcare.

“The acquisition [of eConsult] brings us one step closer to becoming the end-to-end technology platform for the industry to deliver digital-first care at scale seamlessly,” said Dan Vahdat, Huma’s founder and CEO.

According to Huma, over two-thirds of primary and secondary care providers in the UK already use its solutions. The acquisition of eConsult adds another platform to the company’s NHS services.

“The NHS knows it needs to do much more with technology to help both patients and clinicians,” said Murray Ellender, CEO at eConsult.

Launching Huma Workspace

Today, the company also launched Huma Workspace, a platform that offers automation solutions tailored to GPs, community hospitals, and secondary care facilities.

It provides a series of services spanning from appointment bookings and automated prescriptions to screening tools, remote monitoring, and virtual wards. It also features eConsult’s digital triage and consultation tools.

Huma Workspace is integrated with major hospital systems and primary care providers of electronic medical records (EMR), such as Epic and SystemOne. The scaleup says that it’s the first platform of its kind to be embedded into the NHS app.

The rollout follows the launch of the Huma Cloud Platform in July, a “Shopify-like” tool for the healthcare ecosystem to develop and build digital health services.