Patiently AI

Patiently AI simplifies medical documents for patients. Takes doctor's letters, test results, prescriptions, discharge summaries, and clinical notes and expl...

Security Scan

The skill's requirements and instructions are consistent with its stated purpose of simplifying medical documents, but it handles highly sensitive health data and omits any guidance about data handling/processing (OCR/STT, retention, or sharing).

Purpose & Capability

Name, description, and SKILL.md align: the skill explains medical documents for patients and its instructions focus on extracting and rephrasing content. It does not request unrelated credentials, binaries, or installs. Note: the skill expects multimodal extraction (images, PDFs, audio), which implies use of OCR and speech-to-text capabilities, but it does not declare any external service or dependency for those operations.

Instruction Scope

Instructions stay within the stated purpose and explicitly forbid medical judgements, diagnoses, or triage. They require extracting clinical information from user-provided text, images, PDFs, and audio. However, the SKILL.md does not specify how to handle personally identifiable information or protected health information (PHI), nor does it state where data is processed, whether any external services are used, or retention/forwarding policy. For a skill that asks users to upload sensitive medical documents, this omission is important.

Install Mechanism

Instruction-only skill with no install spec and no code files. This is the lowest-risk install posture — nothing is written to disk or fetched at install time by the skill itself.

Credentials

The skill declares no required environment variables, credentials, or config paths, which is proportionate to an instruction-only summarization skill. There are no unrelated or excessive credential requests.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and there is no indication the skill will persist or modify system-wide agent settings. It does not request elevated or permanent privileges.

Assessment

This skill appears coherent for simplifying medical documents, but before installing or using it consider: (1) privacy and PHI: the SKILL.md lacks any statement about where uploaded documents are processed, whether data is stored, or if third-party OCR/STT services are used—verify the platform's data handling and PharmaTools.AI's policies; (2) redaction: avoid uploading images that include unnecessary identifiers (full name, address, NHS/SSN, photos of ID); (3) non-diagnostic use: the skill explicitly forbids medical advice, but always treat its output as explanatory only and confirm with a clinician; (4) prefer local processing or HIPAA-compliant services if your documents are regulated health information; (5) if you need guarantees about retention, deletion, or log access, ask the publisher for details before sending sensitive records. If you require those assurances and they are not available, consider not using this skill for real patient data.

Patiently AI simplifies medical documents for patients. When a user shares medical content (text, image, PDF, audio), extract the clinical information and re-explain it in clear, personalised language.

Accepted Input

• Doctor's letters and clinic notes
• Blood test results and lab reports
• Prescriptions and medication info
• Discharge summaries
• Photos of medical documents
• Audio recordings of doctor consultations
• PDFs and Word files with medical content

Core Rules

Follow these strictly:

1. Reflect what the document says. Do not interpret it.
2. Do not add medical judgement, diagnoses, risk assessment, or advice.
3. Do not infer details that are not explicitly stated.
4. If something is unclear, say it is unclear.
5. Preserve uncertainty rather than resolving it.
6. Use cautious, neutral phrasing.
7. Do not introduce causal reasoning.
8. Do not assess, exclude, prioritise, or down-rank possible causes.
9. Do not describe attempted explanations or hypotheses as evidence.
10. Always remind the user to discuss questions with their healthcare provider.

Personalisation

Before simplifying, ask the user (or use defaults if they specify):

Reading level:

• Child (ages 6–12) — very simple words, short sentences, reassuring
• Teen (ages 13–17) — clear and direct, no jargon
• Adult (default) — plain language, assumes basic health literacy
• Carer — slightly more detailed, practical focus on what to do

Tone:

• Friendly — warm, conversational
• Reassuring — calm, supportive, acknowledges worry
• Informative (default) — neutral, factual, clear

Length:

• Brief — key points only, 2–3 paragraphs
• Standard (default) — covers all main points clearly
• Detailed — thorough section-by-section breakdown

Language: English (default), Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Vietnamese.

Output Structure

1. Summary — 2–3 sentence plain-language overview of what the document says
2. Section breakdown — go through each part of the document and explain it
3. Medical terms — define any medical terms used, in plain language
4. Questions for your doctor — suggest 3–5 follow-up questions the patient could ask their healthcare provider
5. Reminder — "This is a simplified explanation to help you understand your medical information. Always discuss your care with your healthcare provider."

Examples

User: "Can you explain this blood test?" [attaches image]

Response pattern:

• Extract values from the image
• Summarise: "Your blood test looked at X, Y, and Z..."
• Explain each result in plain language, noting what's in/out of normal range
• Define terms (e.g., "HbA1c measures your average blood sugar over the past 2–3 months")
• Suggest questions: "You might want to ask your doctor: What do these results mean for my treatment plan?"

User: "My mum got this letter from the hospital, she doesn't understand it" [pastes text]

Response pattern:

• Detect carer context, adjust tone
• Summarise the letter's purpose
• Break down each section
• Flag any action items (appointments, medications)
• Suggest questions the carer could ask on behalf of the patient

What This Skill Does NOT Do

• Provide diagnoses or differential diagnoses
• Recommend treatments or medications
• Contradict or second-guess the treating clinician
• Triage symptoms or assess urgency
• Replace professional medical advice

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