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AbstractDesk

Pull structured data out of an old paper chart as you digitise it.

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What it is

As an old paper chart is digitised, the diagnoses, allergies, medicines, procedures and key dates on it become structured fields against the patient, instead of the chart being a scanned image nobody can search. A page is photographed and kept; where your clinic’s privacy setting lets a photo leave, Rain reads it into a draft, otherwise the page is typed in with the scan beside it. Whatever is read is a proposal: every field waits for a person to confirm it against the page, field by field, and a field can be corrected (the original reading is kept beside the correction) or set aside with a reason. A confirmed diagnosis goes on the patient’s problem list and a confirmed allergy onto their allergies, each marked as abstracted from paper; medicines, procedures and dates stay on the patient’s abstracted history and are not prescriptions. Entering and correcting is open to records staff; confirming onto the record needs a clinician who can write diagnoses and allergies.

Who uses it: Built for: Every specialty
Reads: Scanned paper charts
Writes: Abstracted clinical data, problem list entries, allergies
Never: It does not put anything on the record that a person has not confirmed against the page, and it never turns an abstracted medicine into a prescription or an order.
Access: Only people whose role includes it — the clinic owner decides who
Your data: Full PHI. Hosted in Boston, United States. On uninstall: Charts, scans and every confirmed field stay on the record.

In the product

Who uses it: Operations manager — the demo profile it is best tried as
Where it opens: Operations › Paper charts /paper-charts
Permission: abstractdesk.enter

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How it works

Photograph a pageAgainst the patient it belongs to.
Rain proposes, or you typeNothing is on the record yet.
Confirm field by fieldCorrect it, or set it aside with a reason.
Finish the chartOnce every field is decided.

Rules it keeps

What it does not do, by design. A listing with only benefits is an advertisement.

It does not put anything on the record that a person has not confirmed against the page, and it never turns an abstracted medicine into a prescription or an order.

AI in AbstractDesk

AskQuestions about what is on screen — “What needs attention in AbstractDesk today?” — answered with the records it read.

DraftSummaries and notes for the team, marked as drafts until a person signs.

Every answer shows its sources. Nothing AI writes is saved until a person accepts it.

See it on screen

AbstractDesk — Paper charts — Turn an old paper chart into confirmed diagnoses, allergies and dates — 01Paper charts — Turn an old paper chart into confirmed diagnoses, allergies and datesCaptured from the running demo clinic

01Paper charts — Turn an old paper chart into confirmed diagnoses, allergies and datesCaptured from the running demo clinic

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Connected to

Read out of the code, not the brochure: each app below is here because one service queries the other’s tables. Install either side and the hand-over is already wired.

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Questions clinics ask

What does AbstractDesk do?

Pull structured data out of an old paper chart as you digitise it. As an old paper chart is digitised, the diagnoses, allergies, medicines, procedures and key dates on it become structured fields against the patient, instead of the chart being a scanned image nobody can search. A page is photographed and kept; where your clinic’s privacy setting lets a photo leave, Rain reads it into a draft, otherwise the page is typed in with the scan beside it. Whatever is read is a proposal: every field waits for a person to confirm it against the page, field by field, and a field can be corrected (the original reading is kept beside the correction) or set aside with a reason. A confirmed diagnosis goes on the patient’s problem list and a confirmed allergy onto their allergies, each marked as abstracted from paper; medicines, procedures and dates stay on the patient’s abstracted history and are not prescriptions. Entering and correcting is open to records staff; confirming onto the record needs a clinician who can write diagnoses and allergies.

What data does AbstractDesk read and write?

AbstractDesk reads scanned paper charts and writes abstracted clinical data, problem list entries, allergies. Its data class is Full PHI. Every app works on the same patient record — nothing is copied into a silo.

What does AbstractDesk deliberately not do?

It does not put anything on the record that a person has not confirmed against the page, and it never turns an abstracted medicine into a prescription or an order.

What happens to our data if we uninstall AbstractDesk?

Charts, scans and every confirmed field stay on the record.

Is AbstractDesk available today?

Yes — AbstractDesk is live in clinics today. Set up your practice on MedAppz and install it from your dashboard.

Want to see AbstractDesk running on your own patients?

Tell us what you run and we will show you this app inside a practice shaped like yours — or answer the question the page above did not.

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