Interoperability · Decision support
Clinical decision-making tools
Used for routing, planning and prompting. Not for deciding.
What is automated
And what deliberately is not
| Task | Automated? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Finding a destination with capacity | Yes | Administrative search, done faster by software |
| Chasing an outstanding referral | Yes | Nobody's clinical judgement is involved in a reminder |
| Suggesting a diagnostic code | Assisted | Suggested, attributed, dismissable |
| Flagging an incomplete record | Assisted | A prompt, never a block |
| Deciding whether a child needs referral | No | A clinician decides and signs |
| Deciding a diagnosis | No | Same |
Medical aid planning
Where data analysis earns its place
Reviewing referrals in terms of medical aid planning services means asking, across a whole cohort, what care will actually be needed and whether the capacity to deliver it exists. That is a data analysis question, and answering it in advance is the difference between a screening programme that generates referrals and one that generates treatment.
Read our position on AI.
Narrow, assistive, attributable.