Everyone knows this!
Medical documents are about you or the health of your loved ones, but because of medical jargon and complicated wording, you can hardly understand a word. That is frustrating and can even be dangerous!
DocToRead makes health information clear and easy to understand.
Medical documents are about you or the health of your loved ones, but because of medical jargon and complicated wording, you can hardly understand a word. That is frustrating and can even be dangerous!
The “What?—Oh, I see!” effect
The innovative DocToRead app provides a solution. It translates complex medical reports into easy-to-understand language, because only those who are well informed can make the right decisions for themselves or their loved ones.
Simply brilliant, brilliantly simple:
DocToRead then makes it easier to understand:
Karl-Josef Laumann, Minister for Labour, Health and Social Affairs of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), congratulates Managing Director Bastian Hollmann on receiving the German Medical Award. Subsequently, DocToRead also won the German Innovation Award in two categories.
Bastian Hollmann summarizes his mission as follows: “My goal is to give patients a tool that conveniently enables them to better understand important medical information.”
Doctors usually try to explain health problems clearly. However, they often assume a high level of specialist knowledge. This can lead to misinterpretations among patients, which may result in unwanted or unnecessary treatments. It can also lead to unnecessary costs, strain the doctor-patient relationship, and in the worst case even affect health.
A doctor with a migration background may lack certain words. Or a patient comes from a different linguistic and cultural background and has limited language skills.
Public AI systems like ChatGPT are useful for many everyday questions – but they are not suitable for medical documents such as doctors’ reports or discharge letters.
There are three important reasons for this:
DocToRead comes from clinical practice and was specifically developed for medical communication.
DocToRead transforms knowledge into clarity – and thus strengthens the self-determination of patients or their close, authorized relatives.
The software was specifically developed for use in healthcare. It is designed and implemented to be fully GDPR-compliant and secure. Sensitive data is not accessible to unauthorized third parties, transmission is SSL-encrypted, and hosting is in Germany.
