We started in a clinic. The product is still there.
Healipro is a multi-tenant clinic management system built by Asatrix — an engineering studio based in Karachi. The team behind it has shipped software at scale in fintech, infrastructure and developer tools, and decided that the most consequential thing they could build was the one their families interact with on the worst days of their lives.
The medical record is the most personal thing a person owns, and in most Pakistani clinics it lives on a paper register that goes home with the operator at night. We are trying to change that without changing what works about how clinics already run.
The cost of a paper register isn’t paper. It’s the prescription you can’t find when it matters.
The next time the patient walks in, the doctor reaches for the file and it is somewhere — in a desk, in another branch, lost. The doctor reconstructs from memory. The patient repeats their history. The pharmacy decodes the handwriting. Everyone is doing the best they can with the wrong tools.
A timeline, with the years that mattered.
- 2022
A year in three clinics
We spent a year sitting behind the counter in three Karachi clinics — a paediatrician, a GP, and a small lab. We took 14 notebooks of notes. None of it is wasted; most of this product is in those notebooks.
- 2024
Decision to build, not consult
The original plan was to recommend a Western EHR. We tried four of them with one of the clinics. They all failed for the same reason: built for a different country, a different patient, a different doctor.
- 2025
First line of code
We started with the doctor's screen. Just the doctor's screen. Six months of refinement before we wrote a single line of backend.
- 2026
Pilot clinics live
Pilot deployments at 11 clinics across Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. The product covers the patient, appointment, prescription, in-house lab, in-house pharmacy and WhatsApp flows end to end.
- 2026 → 2027
Billing, reports, patient app
Phase 2 brings billing (JazzCash, Easypaisa, card), pharmacy inventory, doctor-performance reports, and SMS/email/in-app reminders. Phase 3 brings the patient mobile app and online booking.
Four sentences. Said often, lived occasionally.
01
Small product, well made
We will say no to features more often than yes. Every screen has earned its place by being asked for, by a doctor we know, with a name.
02
Doctors first, not last
A product that doctors merely tolerate gets used until they can stop using it. Ours has to be a tool they reach for.
03
Honest, not aspirational
No "AI-powered everything" until the AI part actually adds clinical value. No certifications we don't have. No roadmap dates we can't hit.
04
Built to outlast us
Documented, tested, multi-tenant from day one, and structured so that a future engineer who has never met us can pick it up and keep building.
Small, on purpose.
Waqas Ahmad
Karachi
Clinical advisor
Karachi · part-time
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The hardest thing about building clinical software is that you can't fake having spent time in a clinic. Either the doctor recognises the workflow on screen or they don't. Ours, they do.