The PID Segment Lives in Our Name

People ask about the name. "Is it a typo?" No. It's a love letter to the PID segment.

The Most Important Segment

In every healthcare message — every admission, every lab result, every prescription — there's a PID segment. Patient Identification. It's the segment that ties everything together. Without PID, a lab result is just numbers. An admission is just a bed assignment. A prescription is just a drug name.

PID is where the patient becomes a person in the system. Name. Date of birth. Medical record number. The fields that make everything else meaningful.

PID + Pigeon = Pidgeon

Carrier pigeons delivered messages when reliability mattered most. They flew through storms, over battlefields, across oceans. When the message absolutely had to get there, you sent a pigeon.

Healthcare messaging has the same stakes. When an HL7 message fails to deliver, a patient might not get their medication. A critical lab result might not reach the physician. An admission might not trigger the right care protocol.

PID + pigeon = Pidgeon. The most important segment in healthcare messaging, carried by the most reliable messenger in history.

Why We're Here

We're building Pidgeon Health because healthcare integration testing shouldn't require copying production databases, manually crafting test messages, or discovering interface bugs at 2am on a Saturday.

Every message that arrives correctly is a patient who gets their care. That's what drives us. That's what the name means.

We build for the people who stay.