Understanding Auto-Detect Suggestions
How PharmacyCopilot suggests a chronic condition to track, based on a patient's current medications.
Auto-detect scans a patient's active medications and suggests chronic conditions they might have but aren't yet being tracked for — visible on their Chronic Disease tab and during Encounter Wizard Step 1.
How it works
Every active medication is checked against a list of known drug-to-condition mappings — for example, amlodipine, losartan, and lisinopril all map to Hypertension; metformin and glibenclamide map to Type 2 Diabetes; efavirenz and tenofovir map to HIV/AIDS. Each mapping carries a confidence level (high, medium, or low) set per drug.
Confidence
A suggestion's confidence starts at whatever its single strongest matching medication carries, and is raised to high automatically once 2 or more of the patient's medications match the same condition — even if each one individually was only medium or low confidence on its own. Suggestions are shown high-confidence first.
What it won't suggest
- A condition the patient is already being tracked for — auto-detect only surfaces new suggestions, not conditions already on their record.
- Anything based on data outside current active medications — it doesn't read diagnoses, notes, or lab results, only the medication list.
A suggestion is exactly that — a prompt to consider tracking a condition, not an automatic diagnosis. Confirming it still means selecting it in Step 1 of a real encounter, the same as adding any other condition.