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No. 1480Existing businessHealth and wellbeing

Normalising medical documents into longitudinal histories

Source

The idea

Structure prescriptions, laboratory PDFs and consultation notes for continuity and analytics.

Why this is interesting

  • Prescriptions, laboratory reports and consultation notes arrive in inconsistent formats. Turning them into a structured history supports continuity and analysis, but extraction errors carry clinical consequences.
  • The approach is described through eka.care, a company in Speciale Invest’s portfolio. It is an example of how one team addresses the problem, not proof that the space is open or that providers will pay.

Possible starting points

01

Laboratory report structuring

Start with laboratory reports, which may be more consistent than handwritten notes, and measure extraction accuracy.

02

Patient-held record assembly

Help people with a chronic condition collect and structure their own documents to share with a new doctor.

Questions to answer

  1. What error rate is acceptable, and who checks the extracted record?
  2. Is the buyer a provider, an insurer, a researcher or the patient?
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