Extract data from discharge summaries
Unstract reads hospital discharge summaries, from typed EHR printouts to faxed discharge papers, and returns the diagnoses, discharge medications, follow-up appointments and pending results the care team documented, each linked to its line, to your EHR or clinical data warehouse.
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{ "patient": "Okafor, Daniel", "date_of_birth": "07/14/1954", "admission_date": "10/24/2026", "discharge_date": "10/29/2026", "attending": "Elena Varga, MD", "discharge_diagnosis": "Community-acquired pneumonia", "icd10": "J18.9", "new_medication": "Amoxicillin-clavulanate 875 mg BID x 5 days", "disposition": "Home with home health", "follow_up": "PCP Dr. S. Lin 11/05/2026", "pending_results": "Blood cultures, final report", "confidence": 0.92}
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Patients leave the hospital before their paperwork reaches you
A discharge summary from your own hospital prints cleanly. Summaries from other hospitals, rehab units and transfers reach care managers and HIM staff by fax, by portal download and as pages in a scanned record.
A summary from an outside hospital with a fax streak over the medications
Discharge papers with a nurse's handwritten follow-up and a corrected dose
Three hospitals, three discharge summary layouts
Summary, instructions and transfer form scanned as one file
A reconciliation table listing every medication kept, changed or stopped
Care managers and nurses read each summary page by page to find the new medications, the follow-up date and the tests still pending, and a patient whose follow-up call waits on that reading is the one most likely to come back through the emergency department.
Unstract reads each discharge summary, pulls the diagnoses, medications, disposition, follow-ups and pending results you name, links every value to its line, and sends the record to your EHR or clinical data warehouse.
Read the summary, structure the transition, route the patient
LLMWhisperer turns each discharge summary into text, Document Studio returns the structured record, and Flow moves the referral that comes with it into your intake queue. A care management team can start with the parsing and add the rest when it suits them.
Read discharge summaries with the medication table intact
A discharge summary mixes narrative and tables: a hospital course in prose, then a medication list where each drug sits beside its dose, frequency and status. Discharge summary OCR is only useful if "continue" stays with metformin and "stop" stays with glipizide. LLMWhisperer keeps the layout of the page, so each medication line reads as one line and each checked disposition box reads as checked. It reads typed printouts, dictated summaries and pages that went through two fax machines.
Hand the text to your own LLM, or use it as the first step of a full care transition run.
Learn more about LLMWhispererTurn each discharge summary into one record of the hospital stay
Describe the record once: patient, admission and discharge dates, attending physician, admitting and discharge diagnoses as written, procedures, discharge medications with dose, frequency and status, disposition, follow-up appointments, pending results and signature. Discharge papers data extraction then returns the same JSON from an EHR printout, a dictated summary or a transfer form. Checks you set travel with the record: a follow-up with no date, a pending result with no one named to check it, a stopped medication that still appears in the patient instructions.
Unstract returns each diagnosis as the physician wrote it, with an ICD-10 code only where the summary prints one. It does not code the stay or decide the next step of care. Deploy it as an API behind your care management tools, or as an ETL pipeline over the fax folder where summaries land.
Learn more about Document StudioRun referral intake from the fax to your EHR work queue
Describe how your intake team handles a referral that arrives with a discharge summary, in plain language, and Flow's agents build the workflow from that description. You approve it, and every referral then runs the same way: the fax split into its referral form, discharge summary and insurance card, the diagnoses, medications and referring provider pulled out, the patient matched to an existing record, and the referral placed in your EHR work queue by urgency.
An uncertain patient match, a summary missing its medication list or out-of-network insurance stops for an intake coordinator, with the reason attached. Unstract finds what the hospital documented. It does not accept the patient or make a care decision.
Learn more about FlowExtract a week of discharge summaries today. Plan the intake run with us.
Start for free with a folder of de-identified summaries. We scope the run into your EHR or clinical data warehouse with you in a consultation.
Discharge summaries and the papers that leave the hospital with the patient
Documents
- Hospital discharge summaries
- Discharge papers and instructions
- Transfer summaries
- Interfacility transfer forms
- Medication reconciliation lists
- Emergency department discharge notes
- Rehab and skilled nursing discharge summaries
- Behavioral health discharge summaries
- Operative and procedure reports
- History and physical notes
- Scanned inpatient records
- Any other discharge document in your charts
Fields captured
Built for the teams who pick up the patient after discharge
Outside discharge summaries indexed by hospital, admission and discharge date, with the key fields ready for your EHR or clinical data warehouse.
Each discharge diagnosis returned with the sentence that supports it, so a query about an unclear diagnosis starts from the summary's own words.
New and stopped medications, follow-up dates and pending results pulled from every summary, so the transition call happens within days of discharge.
Admission and discharge dates, procedures and disposition gathered from the summary, so a payer's post-discharge review starts with the stay already laid out.
Fewer pages read per discharge, earlier follow-up calls
A discharge summary carries the whole hospital stay
One summary holds a patient's identity, every diagnosis from the admission, the procedures performed, the medications started and stopped and where the patient went next. It is the inpatient record in a few pages, and a leak exposes all of it at once.
- Encrypted in transit and at rest.
- Discharge summaries are never used to train models.
- Access by role, facility and summary type, so behavioral health discharges stay with the staff cleared to read them.
- Processed summaries are deleted on the retention schedule your organization sets.
- Self-hosted deployment for health systems that keep inpatient records inside their own environment.
What care management, HIM and review teams ask about discharge summaries
Upload the fax, scan or PDF as it arrives. LLMWhisperer reads the page layout of each hospital's summary, and Document Studio returns the fields you defined once, so a summary from a hospital you have never received from comes back in the same JSON as your own.
Each discharge medication with its dose, frequency and route, and whether the summary marks it new, changed, continued or stopped. Your pharmacist or nurse compares that list with the patient's pre-admission medications. Unstract supplies the list as documented and leaves the reconciliation to your clinicians.
Yes. Each follow-up comes back with the provider or clinic, the date and time where one is written, and the reason. A follow-up written as "in 1 to 2 weeks" with no booked date is flagged, so a care manager knows to schedule it.
Pending results come back as their own list, each with the test name and, where the summary states it, who is responsible for checking the final result. A pending result with no named owner is flagged for review.
Yes. LLMWhisperer reads handwriting alongside printed text, such as a follow-up date a nurse wrote in or a dose crossed out and rewritten. Dictated summaries read as typed text. A value it cannot read with confidence goes to a reviewer instead of into the record.
Yes. A scanned file holding a discharge summary, patient instructions, a medication list and a transfer form is classified page by page, and each document returns its own record linked to the same stay.
No. Unstract extracts what the discharging physician documented. Each diagnosis comes back as written, and an ICD-10 code appears only when the summary prints one. Coding, care plans and clinical decisions stay with your coders and clinicians.
Document Studio deploys as an API your developers call, or as an ETL pipeline that reads the folder where faxed summaries land and writes records to a data warehouse you already run. Flow runs referral intake end to end and places each referral in your EHR work queue.
Unstract is SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA compliant. Summaries are encrypted in transit and at rest, never used to train models, and kept only as long as your retention schedule allows. Hospitals can also run it on their own infrastructure. The controls are published in the Trust Center.
A handful of de-identified discharge summaries and the list of fields your team checks after discharge. A care management or HIM lead can start for free and see results the same day. For a referral intake run, we design it with your team in a consultation around your hospitals, your payers and your EHR.
Bring de-identified discharge summaries from three different hospitals
An outside hospital's fax, a dictated summary and a transfer packet. We extract them during the call and point out each follow-up and pending result the run would hold for a care manager, with its reason.