Every pathology and genomic report ships with a signed plain-language version
When your biopsy or gene test comes back, you get a version written for you, drafted by software and checked and signed by your clinician, alongside the technical report.
Patients now receive laboratory results in portals before their clinician has spoken to them, often in dense pathology language. The proposal is that laboratories and hospitals generate a plain-language companion for every diagnostic report (what was tested, what was found, what it usually means, what happens next) using a language model constrained to templates and the actual report text, released only after clinician sign-off. Templates should be co-written with patient groups and cover the twenty most common report types first.
- Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency · Most patients cannot understand their options, find trials, or push back, so decisions are made for them.
- Knowledge reaches practice too slowly · Knowledge diffusion is slow: it takes years for a proven result to change what most patients receive, and no one can keep up with the literature.
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