GPS (Generated Patient Summary)

GPS (Generated Patient Summary) reads a patient's Zus record and writes a short, sectioned summary of what matters most. Every statement in the summary cites the source it came from, so a reader can check it in one click.

Clinicians use GPS to get up to speed before a visit, during chart prep, or when they see a patient for the first time. For how clinicians use it day to day, see The Generated Patient Summary in the clinical guide.

What goes into a summary

GPS works from the patient's ZAP, including data from your own systems and from the networks Zus connects to.

Structured data: conditions, medications, allergies, immunizations, labs, social and family history, diagnostic tests and vitals
Unstructured data: visit notes, encounter summaries and longitudinal continuity of care documents
Not included: PDFs and imaging reports

Sections

A summary is split into sections. The default sections are:

Patient demographics
Vital signs
Current medications
Active clinical concerns
Recent hospitalizations and visits
Latest labs
Latest history and physical
Social history and determinants of health
Latest pathology
Affordability and accessibility challenges

Citations

Every clinical statement links to its source. A citation opens the underlying data in a side drawer, or opens the full source document.

When a summary is regenerated

GPS reuses a recent summary so every viewer sees the same one. It generates a new summary the next time someone requests it if new data has arrived for the patient, or if the last summary is more than 15 days old.

Where GPS appears

Users generate a summary from the patient's Overview page in the ZAP. The summary keeps generating if the user moves to another part of the record, and a notification appears when it's ready.

Notes

GPS summarizes. It doesn't interpret. It doesn't make diagnoses, recommend treatments or draw conclusions beyond what's in the record.
Summary quality follows data quality. If a patient's record is sparse, incomplete or still syncing, the summary will be too.
Conflicts aren't resolved. If sources disagree about a medication or condition, GPS may not flag it. Use the citations to check.
Clinical staff review output. Coders, nurses and physicians regularly check GPS summaries against source records.

Access

Contact your account team to turn on GPS or change what your summaries include.

Atlas: cited answers to the specific fields a workflow needs
Pre-Visit Preparation
The ZAP record