Hilbi Introduces Life ID After Nine Years of Building a Patient-Centred Healthcare Data Platform

London, UK, September 29th, 2026, FinanceWire

Nine years after a family healthcare experience inspired the platform, Hilbi is connecting patient records, clinical workflows and consent across multiple healthcare systems through Life ID, its patient-owned health record. Designed to organise clinical data around a person across years rather than individual episodes of care, Life ID connects with existing clinical software through an API and is designed to allow consent to travel across jurisdictions while the underlying data remains in place.

Patrik Kmeč, Chief Executive, and Roman Kučera, Chief Business Officer, Hilbi.com.

From a Hospital Notebook to Life ID

The idea began nine years ago after Hilbi chief executive Patrik Kmeč spent a year navigating a difficult family diagnosis. Although he credits the doctors and nurses involved in the family’s care, he said the experience exposed a gap in how patients could access and use information between appointments. He found himself copying laboratory results into a notebook by hand to track changes over time, while much of the practical education came through other parents and a support foundation.

“None of it was anyone’s fault. But by the end of that year, we had a list. That list was the specification,” Kmeč said.

Kmeč later joined with Roman Kučera, Hilbi’s chief business officer, whose background was in international transaction systems and decentralised fintech platforms. Kučera saw a parallel between healthcare and payments: both require systems that were not originally designed to communicate with one another to exchange information without forcing every participant to rebuild its existing infrastructure.

A Patient-Owned Health Record Across Systems

Life ID is built around that approach. The record can combine clinical information with data added by the patient, including vital signs, questionnaire responses and information from compatible devices. Consent is explicit and jurisdiction-aware, allowing permission to travel while the underlying data remains where applicable rules require it to stay. Hilbi says its architecture is designed so continuity can remain with the patient even when the patient changes doctor, city or country.

Connecting With Existing Clinical Software

For healthcare providers, Hilbi connects through an API rather than replacing the provider’s existing system of record. The platform brings together functions including booking, referrals, follow-up and a longitudinal patient timeline. Hilbi’s aim is to reduce the number of separate systems clinicians need to use while keeping the patient pathway visible in one place.

“We are one interface with the intelligence already inside it. The patient books, the record is there, the consultation is documented, the follow-up goes out,” Kmeč said. “Nobody switches context. Nobody learns a second system.”

AI Built into the Clinical Environment

Hilbi has also developed IQ, an AI layer operating within the same environment. According to the company, IQ Flow consolidates incoming patient communications, IQ Doc structures consultations and incoming documents, and IQ Care is designed to explain information to patients. Hilbi states that messaging between doctors and patients is end-to-end encrypted on a zero-knowledge basis, while consultation processing requires explicit consent and is handled on models running locally within the relevant jurisdiction. The company says it does not train third-party models on patient data and does not make clinical decisions.

Expansion Across Europe, India and the United States

The platform is being used in different healthcare environments. In Europe, Hilbi works with providers using established clinical systems. In India, it is also digitising patient records in outpatient settings where clinical software may not already be in place. The company says early adopters in India are currently digitising around 400 patients a day across several outpatient clinics.

Hilbi says it now operates across eight countries, with teams in Europe and India, development management in the UAE and a US team being built. The company reports around half a million interactions a month, thousands of patients in active management each day, and repeat transactions across three continents.

“Going through the patient is the one route that connects systems never designed to talk to each other, anywhere in the world, without asking any of them to change,” Kučera said. “We carry the interoperability, so they do not have to.”

The Next Phase for Hilbi

The company’s next phase is focused on extending the same patient-centred architecture across additional points of care while maintaining its approach to consent, data location and clinical decision-making. For Kmeč, the objective remains tied to the experience that started the project: giving patients a usable view of the information surrounding their care rather than leaving them to reconstruct it themselves.

About Hilbi

Hilbi develops Life ID, a patient-owned longitudinal health record that connects with existing clinical software and supports consent-based access to health information across healthcare settings. Hilbi currently operates in Europe and India and has a pilot through a partner in 17 US states.

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