The situation
A discharge summary condenses an admission into something the next clinician can act on. It is written at the end of a shift, from notes spread across a stay, by someone who was not present for all of it.
When it is late, the follow-up appointment happens without it. When it is rushed, the medication changes and the outstanding results are the parts that get thinned.
Why it is hard
The source is distributed across the stay
Ward notes, medication charts, results and procedure records are separate documents authored by different people at different times.
Omission is the clinically dangerous failure
A summary that misses a medication change or an unactioned result is worse than no summary, because it is trusted.
Attribution is not optional
A clinician signing a summary needs to see what each statement came from. A fluent paragraph with no provenance cannot be safely signed.
How we approach it
Agentix assembles the candidate summary from the admission record with every statement linked to the note, chart entry or result it came from. The clinician reviews a draft where each line can be checked against its source in one click.
Medication changes and outstanding results are handled as explicit categories rather than as prose to be summarised, because those are the parts where omission does the most harm.
What changes
- Every statement in the draft traceable to its source document
- Medication changes and outstanding results handled explicitly, not summarised away
- Clinician sign off required and recorded, never implied
- Runs in customer tenancy; the record does not leave
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