Medical Cards — Patient Health Summary Cards

Medical Cards — Patient Health Summary Cards

A "medical card" in Dudoxx HMS is the PatientSummaryResponseDto — a parallel-fetched FHIR aggregation of demographics, active conditions, current medications, critical allergies, recent encounters, and upcoming appointments, surfaced as a real-time patient health snapshot for clinicians and patients.

Business Purpose

When a doctor opens a patient's chart, they need a 10-second clinical overview — not a raw list of FHIR resources. They need to know: active diagnoses, current medications, known allergies (especially HIGH criticality), recent visits, and upcoming appointments. Looking each up separately costs 5+ API calls and 30+ seconds of navigation.

Dudoxx HMS's Medical Card (patient summary) aggregates all six data types in a single parallel FHIR fetch, returning a unified PatientSummaryResponseDto. This enables:

• Dashboard widgets: Each data type maps to a card on the clinical portal home.
• AI context injection: TUCAN agent tools call get-visit-summary which reads from the same aggregation pipeline.
• Patient portal view: PATIENT role reads their own summary via GET /api/v1/patients/:id/summary.
• Medical history document generation: medical-history-summary.template.ts in patient-documents uses the aggregated data to generate PDF medical histories.

Audiences

• Investor: The medical card is the primary "wow moment" in product demos — a single API call produces a clinically actionable patient snapshot. It showcases the depth of FHIR integration and AI readiness.
• Clinical buyer (doctor/nurse/receptionist): Doctors see the medical card on patient detail pages. Critical allergies (HIGH criticality) are highlighted. Active conditions are ICD/SNOMED coded. Current medications show dosage schedules (1-0-1 format).
• Developer/partner: GET /api/v1/patients/:id/summary → PatientSummaryResponseDto. Requires X-Clinic-ID. Accepts both UUID and FHIR Patient ID. All 6 sub-components are fetched in parallel via Promise.all().
• Internal (ops/support): Pure FHIR aggregation — no Prisma table for summaries. All data sourced from HAPI FHIR in real time. Cache miss = 6 simultaneous FHIR HTTP requests. Monitor HAPI FHIR response times if summary endpoints are slow.

Architecture

PatientsController (/api/v1/patients/:id/summary) → PatientAggregationService:

Parallel fetch pattern (patient-aggregation.service.ts:137):

Promise.all([
  getFavoriteMetadata(userId, fhirPatientId),
  getActivityMetadata(userId, fhirPatientId),
  getDetailedPatientStats(fhirPatientId, clinicId),
  getUserAccount(fhirPatientId),
])

PatientSummaryResponseDto shape (6 components):

1. demographics — DemographicSummaryDto: fullName, birthDate, age, gender, phone, email, address
2. activeConditions — ActiveConditionDto[]: id, display, code, codeSystem, onsetDate, clinicalStatus
3. currentMedications — CurrentMedicationDto[]: id, display, dosage, frequency (1-0-1 format), startDate, status
4. criticalAllergies — CriticalAllergyDto[]: allergen, allergyType, criticality (HIGH/LOW), severity, reaction, onset
5. recentEncounters — RecentEncounterDto[]: class (AMB/IMP), date, status, practitioner, reasonDisplay
6. upcomingAppointments — UpcomingAppointmentDto[]: description, start, end, status, practitioner
7. lastUpdated — timestamp of aggregation

Tech Stack & Choices

Design choice: No caching layer on the summary endpoint — data is real-time from FHIR. The parallel Promise.all() pattern keeps latency to the worst-case single FHIR call time (not sum). If FHIR response times exceed 500ms, a Redis cache layer (TTL 30s) would be the next optimization.

Data Flow

Clinician opens patient chart

Business outcome: Doctor clicks on "Maria Schmidt" in the patient list; within 1 second, a dashboard shows her active hypertension and diabetes diagnoses, current lisinopril and metformin, HIGH-criticality penicillin allergy, last visit 2 weeks ago, and an upcoming follow-up in 3 days.

Technical mechanism:

1. GET /api/v1/patients/{uuid}/summary with X-Clinic-ID header.
2. PatientsController delegates to PatientAggregationService.getPatientSummary().
3. PatientIdResolverService.resolveFhirPatientId(patientId) translates UUID → FHIR Patient ID.
4. fhirClient.read<FhirPatientResource>('Patient', fhirPatientId, clinicId) (patient-aggregation.service.ts:124) fetches patient demographics.
5. Promise.all([getFavoriteMetadata, getActivityMetadata, getDetailedPatientStats, getUserAccount]) (patient-aggregation.service.ts:137) executes 4 parallel queries.
6. FhirResourceMapperService maps each FHIR sub-resource to its typed DTO.
7. Returns PatientSummaryResponseDto with all 6 components + lastUpdated.

AI agent uses clinical summary

GET /api/v1/visits/:id/agent-context calls VisitsService.getVisitAgentContext() which assembles patient context. The TUCAN open-clinical-summary-modal tool (ai/tucan/tools/ui/open-clinical-summary-modal.tool.ts) references the patient summary endpoint to inject clinical context into the AI assistant session.

Medical history PDF generation

PatientDocumentsService.getPatientDocuments() (patient-documents.service.ts:53) aggregates documents from 3 sources (attachments, visit attachments, generated documents). medical-history-summary.template.ts uses patient summary data to generate a structured medical history PDF via ddx-pdf-engine.

Implicated Code

• ddx-api/src/clinical/patients/services/patient-aggregation.service.ts:72 — PatientAggregationService — parallel FHIR aggregation orchestrator
• ddx-api/src/clinical/patients/services/patient-aggregation.service.ts:111 — getPatientDetail() — full aggregation with favorites, activity, stats, user account
• ddx-api/src/clinical/patients/services/patient-aggregation.service.ts:124 — FHIR Patient read — validates fhirPatient.id exists (never coerces missing ID)
• ddx-api/src/clinical/patients/services/patient-aggregation.service.ts:137 — Promise.all([...]) — parallel fetch of 4 sub-components
• ddx-api/src/clinical/patients/services/fhir-resource-mapper.service.ts:1 — FhirResourceMapperService — FHIR → DTO mapping (shared between detail and summary)
• ddx-api/src/clinical/patients/services/patient-stats.service.ts:1 — PatientStatsService — FHIR search count queries for condition/medication/encounter totals
• ddx-api/src/clinical/patients/dto/patient-summary-response.dto.ts:172 — PatientSummaryResponseDto — 6-component aggregate DTO with Swagger annotations
• ddx-api/src/clinical/patients/dto/patient-summary-response.dto.ts:127 — CriticalAllergyDto — HIGH/LOW criticality, allergen, severity, reaction fields
• ddx-api/src/documents/patient-documents/patient-documents.service.ts:40 — PatientDocumentsService — aggregates documents from 3 sources (attachments, visit attachments, generated docs)
• ddx-api/src/documents/patient-documents/templates/medical-history-summary.template.ts:1 — PDF template for medical history export

Operational Notes

• Pure FHIR — no Prisma cache: Patient summaries are always fetched live from HAPI FHIR. If HAPI FHIR is slow or unreachable, summary endpoints will time out. Monitor HAPI FHIR at GET http://localhost:18080/fhir/metadata.
• Parallel fetch is critical for performance: The 4-way Promise.all() means total latency ≈ max(individual_latency), not sum. Do not serialize these calls — it would multiply response time by 4.
• FHIR Patient ID must exist: PatientIdResolverService throws NotFoundException if no FHIR Patient record exists for the given UUID. Ensure PatientsService.ensureFhirPatient() is called (or the seeder run) before accessing summaries for new patients.
• Criticality display priority: CriticalAllergyDto.criticality = HIGH should be visually highlighted in any UI consuming this DTO. The field value comes directly from the FHIR AllergyIntolerance.criticality field — no transformation.
• Medication frequency format: CurrentMedicationDto.frequency uses the "1-0-1" German pharmacy notation (morning-noon-evening doses). UI components rendering this should display it with time labels, not just the raw string.

Related Topics

• Clinical Data — Conditions — Active conditions shown on medical card
• Clinical Data — Prescriptions — Current medications on medical card
• Clinical Data — Vitals — Latest vitals may be surfaced in extended summary views
• Drugs Management — Critical allergies feed drug-allergy checking
• Clinical Visits — Recent encounters data sourced from FHIR Encounters
• Clinical Activities — Patient chart views tracked via ActivityInterceptor