AI drafts. You review: a simpler way to prepare clinical referrals
Dr. Unni Menon
A referral to another doctor. A letter to an insurer. A clinical memo.
Different purposes, but often the same starting point: information already recorded in the patient’s clinical notes.
Preparing the next document can mean finding those notes, gathering reports and typing the relevant details again. For a busy clinician, that is another task competing for attention after the consultation has ended.
We built Ekko’s drafting and referral workflows to make that process simpler, while keeping the clinician responsible for the final document.
I’ve experienced the problem from both sides
As a practicing dentist, I’ve seen how incomplete information can make a handover harder. As a patient seeing different specialists, I’ve experienced what it feels like to be the person trying to connect the dots.
Each clinician may have part of the picture. The patient carries the files, remembers the conversations and tries to explain what happened elsewhere.
Even when everyone wants the best for the patient, the communication between them can be haphazard.
A referral letter won’t solve every gap in care. But making it easier to pass on relevant information is a practical place to start.
From clinical notes to a draft you can review
Ekko helps clinicians generate a draft from EMR case notes, then review and edit it for its intended purpose.
The short demonstration below shows the doctor-to-doctor referral workflow:
Choose the receiving doctor from the Ekko network.
Attach relevant reports, such as laboratory results or imaging.
Generate an AI draft from the available EMR case notes.
Review and edit the letter before sending.
Case-note integration is currently available with Plato Medical. The information available to the draft depends on what has been recorded and made available through that integration.
Watch the 30-second referral demonstration