summarizing-clinical-notes
Produces structured, citation-anchored summaries of clinical notes — one-liner, hospital course, and problem-oriented views — where every claim cites a source span so nothing is hallucinated. Use after de-identifying notes when the user wants a discharge summary draft, handoff/SBAR, problem list, or chart-abstraction summary. De-identify FIRST with openmed.deidentify, then anchor summary claims to entity spans from openmed.analyze_text. Trigger keywords: summarize note, discharge summary, hospital course, problem-oriented, one-liner, SOAP, SBAR, handoff, chart abstraction.
npx skills add maziyarpanahi/openmed --skill summarizing-clinical-notes --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Summarizing Clinical Notes with Span Citations A clinical summary is only useful if it is *faithful*: every statement must trace back to something the chart actually says. The failure mode for note summarization is the confident hallucination — an invented dose, a fabricated allergy, a discharge diagnosis that was never made. This skill produces summaries where **each line cites the source span** that supports it, so a clinician can verify in one glance and catch any fabrication. > **Not a medical device.** OpenMed and this skill assist documentation; they > do not diagnose, triage, or make autonomous clinical decisions. Every summary > is a *draft for clinician review and editing*. Surface that disclaimer in any > UI that renders these summaries. ## When to use - Drafting a discharge summary, transfer note, or SBAR/handoff from a long encounter. - Building a problem-oriented view (problem list with supporting evidence). - Generating a "one-liner" (the single-sentence patient summary) for rounds. - Chart abstraction where reviewers need quick, verifiable evidence pointers. ## Quick start De-identify before anything else, extract entities to anchor against, then compose the summar
- When to use
- Quick start
- Workflow
- Hand-off to / from OpenMed
- Edge cases & gotchas
- Standards & references
What does the summarizing-clinical-notes skill do?
Produces structured, citation-anchored summaries of clinical notes — one-liner, hospital course, and problem-oriented views — where every claim cites a source span so nothing is hallucinated. Use after de-identifying notes when the user wants a discharge summary draft, handoff/SBAR, problem list, or chart-abstraction summary. De-identify FIRST with openmed.deidentify, then anchor summary claims to entity spans from openmed.analyze_text. Trigger keywords: summarize note, discharge summary, hospital course, problem-oriented, one-liner, SOAP, SBAR, handoff, chart abstraction.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add maziyarpanahi/openmed --skill summarizing-clinical-notes --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From maziyarpanahi/openmed, a repository with 4,851 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.