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Clinical Interpretation

After Lab AI has analyzed a lab report, you can request a Clinical Interpretation, a short written summary of the results in plain clinical language. The interpretation is optional and is requested separately from the extraction, so you only pay for it when you actually want it.

What the interpretation includes

The interpretation is structured into four parts:

PartWhat it covers
Overall SummaryA brief read on the panel as a whole.
Abnormal FindingsThe flagged or out-of-range results, with the clinical significance of each.
Clinical ConsiderationsPatterns across the results that might be worth thinking about together.
Recommended Follow-upSuggested next steps a practitioner could consider.

The interpretation is written for a practitioner reader. It is meant to give you a quick read on the results, not to replace your clinical judgement.

Generating the interpretation

  1. Analyze the lab report first. See Analyzing a Lab Report. The interpretation can only be generated after an extraction has been done for that document.
  2. Below the extracted table, click Generate Clinical Interpretation.
  3. The interpretation appears below the button in a formatted block.

Generating an interpretation uses 1 AI credit.

When the same interpretation is requested twice

If you’ve already generated an interpretation for a document, requesting it again returns the saved version without using another credit. You can come back to a chart days or weeks later and re-open the interpretation without worrying about the cost.

This also means that if you skipped the interpretation the first time around and decide later that you want it, you only pay for the one generation. Re-opening the panel doesn’t re-charge.

Editing or replacing the interpretation

The interpretation is generated text. If you want to edit, expand, or shorten it before saving anything to the patient’s record, copy the relevant parts into your chart’s Subjective, Assessment, or Plan section and adapt them. The generated text is a starting point, not a final note.

The interpretation itself isn’t filed as a separate document in the patient’s chart. It stays attached to the lab-import session and can be re-opened any time you re-open the same lab document in the Import Lab Results panel.

Troubleshooting

”No extraction found for this file”

The interpretation can only be generated after Lab AI has analyzed the document. Run Analyze first (see Analyzing a Lab Report), then Generate Clinical Interpretation.

”You have no AI credits remaining”

Your AI credit balance is zero. See When You’re Out of Credits for the options.

The interpretation isn’t quite what I’d write

The interpretation is a starting point. It works from the structured values Lab AI extracted, without the patient’s full chart context. For a panel where there’s a lot more going on than the lab values alone, expect to rewrite parts of it, or skip it entirely and write your own note.