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Systems-Design Concept

PSEL — Patient Summary Exchange Layer

A systems-design exploration of how structured patient summaries could be exchanged between health facilities without attempting to replace existing records systems.

Concept Exploration
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The Problem

When patients move between facilities, important information such as medications, allergies, diagnoses, and recent investigations may not follow them. This can create duplicated work, delays, and incomplete clinical context.

Concept Direction

PSEL explores a lightweight exchange layer for structured patient summaries. The concept focuses on sharing only the information needed for continuity of care, rather than building or replacing a full electronic health-record system.

What the Concept Explores

Structured Patient Summaries

A concise summary format for key diagnoses, allergies, medications, and recent investigations.

Identity Matching

A concept for linking patient summaries using multiple identifiers, with safeguards needed for uncertain matches.

Facility-to-Facility Exchange

An API-oriented model for authorised facilities to request and share limited summary information.

Consent and Audit Thinking

A design direction that considers patient consent, access records, and accountable information use.

Design Principles

  • Built for low-resource health environments
  • Summary-first rather than full-record replacement
  • Designed around real clinical workflow questions

Important: PSEL is a systems-design concept and not a live clinical exchange platform. It has not been deployed in healthcare facilities, clinically validated, or presented as a compliant production system.

Why It Matters to HAIB

PSEL demonstrates HAIB Studios' interest in practical health-system design, interoperability questions, and the realities of digital tools in healthcare settings.

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