Key Investor Signals
Patient app has been used thousands of times
DocToRead describes its patient app as proven thousands of times in practice. A browser portal extends the same workflow to clinics and practices.
Founder brings 20+ years in medical technology
Bastian Hollmann worked in radiology at University Hospital Münster and has more than 20 years of medical-technology experience. He also founded Hollmann Medical.
Won two German Innovation Award 2026 distinctions
DocToRead received both the Winner distinction and the highest honour, Gold, at the German Innovation Award 2026 for its medical communication platform.
Other Positive Signals
- Clinician portal is live for clinics and practices with a self-pay billing option.
- Selected as a Health-i Award 2026 finalist from 120 startup applicants.
- Software engineering partner Vialutions developed and continues to support DocToRead’s app and portal.
Team
Bastian Hollmann
CEO and Founder
- Worked in radiology at University Hospital Münster, giving him direct experience with patient communication in clinical settings.
- Brings more than 20 years of medical-technology experience across radiology, radiotherapy and commercial roles.
- Founded Hollmann Medical, a radiotherapy technology distributor serving clinics with implementation and support.
Product
DocToRead uses AI to turn medical reports into clear patient explanations through a consumer app and a browser portal for care providers. It also generates clinical summaries and multilingual or child-friendly versions for different communication needs.
Document-to-explanation workflow
Patients photograph or upload reports, which OCR converts into text before AI simplifies the medical terminology. Clinicians can enter findings directly into the browser portal to generate a patient-friendly explanation.
Accessible multilingual output
The patient app translates reports into understandable language, reads the results aloud and lets users save or share them. The clinician portal prepares multilingual information that can be shared digitally or printed.
Clinician and child-friendly formats
The portal can generate concise clinical summaries for care teams and child-friendly stories for younger patients. Both formats repackage information already contained in the source document.
Market Overview
DocToRead targets a broad communication problem in Germany: many adults struggle to work with health information, while 15.5 million people mainly or exclusively speak a language other than German at home. Medical reports can therefore create both comprehension and language barriers across a large patient population.
The institutional route is also substantial. Germany had 1,841 hospitals in 2024, while 30% of EU internet users accessed personal health records online that year. DocToRead can reach patients directly through its app and sell its portal into care settings where medical documents are created and discussed.
Around 81% of German adults surveyed in 2024 reported difficulty dealing with health information.
15.5 million people in Germany mainly or exclusively spoke a language other than German at home in 2024.
Germany had 1,841 hospitals in 2024, providing an institutional channel for patient communication tools.
30% of EU internet users accessed their personal health records online in 2024.
Comparable Outcomes
Emmi Solutions
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Get Well
Built digital patient engagement tools for hospitals and ambulatory care, serving more than 10 million patient interactions annually across over 1,000 healthcare organizations. Enterprise AI investment firm SAIGroup acquired Get Well in July 2024 to expand its healthcare portfolio.
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Sources
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