INVEST Pitch Perfect Spotlight: How Docology Is Automating a Broken Step in Patient Referrals

For decades, the patient referral process has been plagued by inefficiency and fragmentation. Patient data remains scattered across systems, forcing staff to spend excessive time manually compiling and summarizing records for specialists.

A startup seeking to fix this problem through automation was crowned the winner of the startup pitch competition at MedCity News ’ INVEST Digital Health conference in Dallas last month. A panel of investor judges named Omaha, Nebraska-based Docology the winner, recognizing it as the most promising among three other companies developing AI tools to improve clinical operations.

Docology was founded in January to fill a gap in the industry, said CEO Andrew Rogers. He said he and his co-founders — Dr. Sida Niu and Tyler Hamik — spent months meeting wi