Use AI to draft a clear transition of care summary before your patient is discharged from the hospital.

When your patient is hospitalized, the discharge summary often arrives late or incomplete—leaving you to piece together what happened, what changed, and what you need to do next. Instead of waiting, use AI to draft a structured transition of care summary based on the information you do have from the hospital team, discharge planner, or patient/family. This helps you organize follow-up tasks, medication reconciliation needs, and key points to address at the first post-discharge visit. 1. Gather the information you have: hospital admission reason, key diagnoses, procedures done, new medications started or stopped, and any follow-up instructions you received verbally or via brief notes. 2. Go to ChatGPT or Claude and paste a prompt asking it to create a transition of care summary. Provide the details you know in plain language—no need to enter actual patient names or identifiers. 3. Review the AI-generated summary. Check that it clearly lists what happened during hospitalization, what changed in the treatment plan, what you need to follow up on, and any red flags to watch for. 4. Add any missing details you remember from phone calls with the hospitalist or patient family, and adjust the tone or emphasis as needed. 5. Use this draft as your working document to guide the first post-hospital visit, medication review, and care coordination tasks. Update it when the official discharge summary arrives. Always review and verify AI-generated content before using it in clinical care. Never enter real patient data into a public AI tool.

March 18, 2026