An agent went through his father-in-law’s records and found the medication mistakes
A man gave an agent all of his father-in-law’s care records and made it the coordinator across the many doctors involved. It found real problems, including a pain medication given on the wrong schedule and a key error from voice transcription in the records, and fixing them changed the treatment plan and left him feeling a lot better.
How it works
- He gives the agent the full set of care records
- The agent reads across all of them as one case
- It flags a pain medication on the wrong schedule and a transcription error about genetic markers
- The family takes the findings to the doctors
- The schedule is fixed and the treatment plan changes
Why it’s worth knowing
Reading the records as one case, the agent caught a wrong medication schedule that every separate doctor had missed.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗