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Discharge Summary in Plain Language

Turn a discharge summary into simple instructions, medicine schedule and warning signs.

Intermediate12h1–2 people17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Discharge Summary in Plain Language for patients going home from hospital in ~12h with 1–2 people. Stack: LLM + Next.js + Translation.

Why it wins: Reduces readmissions with clear output.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Patients forget or misunderstand discharge instructions and return to hospital.
02 · Solution
Convert the summary to plain language in the patient's language, build a medicine timetable and list warning signs that need a call, all to confirm with the care team.
03 · Build
  1. 1Parse the summary
  2. 2Simplify text
  3. 3Build a schedule
  4. 4Translate
04 · Demo
Upload a sample summary and show the timetable and warning list.

MVP checklist

  • Plain summary
  • Medicine timetable
  • Warning signs
  • Multilingual

Tech stack

TechRole
LLMLanguage model
Next.jsFrontend + API routes
TranslationTooling

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