Clinical Communication Assistant With EHR Integration

Added Jun 2025 3 design docs

Clinics drown in routine communication: appointment confirmations, prescription queries, visit summaries, and referral letters. Every minute a clinician or front-desk team spends on this is a minute not spent on care, and patients feel the lag in slow responses and missed follow-ups. The intern builds an assistant that automates this communication safely. A Node.js backend integrates the OpenAI API to power generative AI workflows: drafting natural-language replies to patient messages, handling appointment scheduling conversations, and summarizing clinical documents into concise, readable briefs. MongoDB stores conversations, schedules, and document metadata under strict access controls, and the system connects to electronic health records so responses reflect real patient context instead of generic boilerplate. A React interface gives healthcare staff a review queue where every AI draft is approved, edited, or rejected before it ever reaches a patient. The project teaches the pattern regulated industries increasingly demand from AI: human-in-the-loop generation, secure handling of sensitive data, EHR integration, and full-stack engineering that treats trust as a feature rather than an afterthought.

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