Guides

Guides for patients and clinics

Last updated 17 September 2026

A patient’s medical history usually arrives in pieces: prescriptions from different doctors, reports from different laboratories, scans from one hospital and a discharge summary from another. These guides explain, in plain language, how to keep those documents organised, how to read the ones that most often cause confusion, how to share them without putting privacy at risk, and how software that summarises records should be checked by the clinicians who rely on it.

They are written by Dipankar Deka, Founder, Vaidence AI, and reviewed against how the Vaidence product actually behaves. They are general information, not medical, legal or financial advice. Your own doctor, who knows your history, is always the right person to interpret your results and decide on treatment. If you spot something wrong or unclear, write to contact@vaidence.com and it will be corrected.

• Patients and caregivers · 7 min read How to prepare your medical records before a doctor’s appointment A consultation is short. A one-page summary, documents in date order and a written list of questions let the doctor spend that time on you rather than on reconstructing your history.
• Patients, caregivers and new clinic staff · 8 min read Reading a laboratory report: reference ranges, units and flags A result only means something alongside its unit, its reference interval and the circumstances of the sample. Trends across repeated tests are more informative than any single number.
• Patients, caregivers and clinicians receiving referrals · 7 min read Discharge summaries explained: what each section tells your next doctor The discharge summary is the hand-over from the hospital to everyone who cares for you next. The medicines section and the follow-up instructions are the parts most worth checking before you leave.
• Patients, caregivers and clinic teams · 7 min read Sharing medical documents safely: photos, PDFs and messaging apps A readable copy sent through the right channel to a verified recipient protects both the usefulness of the document and your privacy. Send only what is needed, and prefer channels the clinic controls.
• Doctors, clinic leads and healthcare technology teams · 8 min read Why every AI-generated clinical summary should cite its source document Language models write fluent text whether or not it is correct. Linking every statement to the page it came from turns a summary a clinician must trust into one a clinician can check in seconds — and keeps the clinician in charge.
• Doctors, clinic staff and administrators using Vaidence · 6 min read Signing in on a new browser: how Vaidence email verification works The first time you sign in on a browser, Vaidence emails you a six-digit code. After you enter it, that browser is remembered and later sign-ins go straight in. There is no authenticator app and no backup code to manage.

Want to see how a source-backed clinical workspace looks? The interactive product demo runs entirely in your browser on fictional records. For how Vaidence handles data, see security and the privacy policy.