Affected users: Healthcare Professionals (physicians, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners) who rely on Coeurway AI scribe to generate clinical documentation.
Task affected: Coeurway AI Scribe module — Clinical Note Generation workflow. Specifically, when the AI generates lists of negative symptoms or pertinent negatives within sections such as the History of Present Illness (HPI) or Review of Systems (ROS).
Impact: High medico-legal risk and administrative burden. Applying a single negative term at the beginning of a comma-separated list (e.g., "no fever, cough, body aches") creates potential legal ambiguity, as it can be misinterpreted in court or audit settings as implying the subsequent symptoms were present.
Current state: Clinicians must manually review and re-edit every generated list of negative symptoms to insert the negation modifier (e.g., "no", "denies", "pas de") before each individual symptom in the list.
Competition consideration: N/A