HEALTHCARE AI AND AGENT ORCHESTRATION

Connect hospital intelligence with the patient journey

Use AI in two coordinated ways: to assist integration and architecture, and to support communication and workflow across the patient journey. ZeroOne designs these capabilities around authorized data access, human responsibility and the hospital's HIMSS-aligned roadmap.

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PILLAR 01 / INTEGRATION AND ARCHITECTURE

AI that helps coordinate systems and workflows

AI agents can use large language models (LLMs) for defined coordination tasks, MCP (Model Context Protocol) to access approved tools, and A2A (Agent2Agent) to collaborate. Permissions, audit trails and human approvals remain part of the workflow.

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Integration analysis

Assist interface discovery, mapping proposals and investigation of exceptions, with engineering review before changes are released.

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Workflow orchestration

Coordinate reusable agents and tools across HIS, ADT, clinical and departmental workflows.

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Operational intelligence

Bring data-quality findings, workload signals and service exceptions into an accountable review process.

1 · Trigger

Approved ADT or workflow event

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2 · Coordinates the sequence

Policy-governed AI orchestrator

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3 · Agent

Retrieval agent

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Connector / tool

Approved HIS/EMR connector

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System

HIS / EMR

4 · Agent

Task agent

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Connector / tool

Approved departmental / workflow connector

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System

Departmental or workflow system

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5 · Result

Validated response or operational task, with acknowledgement

Control band — applies to every step

Identity

Permission checks

Schema and terminology validation

Human approval where needed

Audit trail

Exception handling

Agents reach hospital systems only through approved connectors and tools. The orchestrator coordinates the sequence; it does not replace system databases or grant access on its own.

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PILLAR 02 / PATIENT JOURNEY AGENTS

Support each step from first contact to follow-up

Agents handle communication and coordination around care, connected to hospital workflows and to the staff who remain responsible for clinical decisions.

Stage 01 of 7

Before arrival

What the agent supports

Explain approved administrative preparation, collect authorized intake information and help users navigate appointment processes.

Responsibility boundary

Clinical advice comes from approved care-team content and escalation.

Stage 02 of 7

Arrival and registration

What the agent supports

Help with check-in steps, registration questions, accessibility preferences and routing to the correct desk.

Responsibility boundary

Identity and ADT updates use verified, authorized workflows.

Stage 03 of 7

During the visit

What the agent supports

Provide approved wayfinding, service instructions and status information.

Responsibility boundary

Queue or status information is not a clinical priority or a guaranteed treatment time.

Stage 04 of 7

Tests and departmental services

What the agent supports

Coordinate preparation information and administrative tasks across laboratory, imaging and other services.

Responsibility boundary

Orders, interpretation and result release remain under clinical policy.

Stage 05 of 7

Admission and care coordination

What the agent supports

Support non-clinical communication, staff task coordination and authorized information retrieval.

Responsibility boundary

No autonomous diagnosis, treatment, patient merge or medication action.

Stage 06 of 7

Discharge

What the agent supports

Present clinician-approved instructions, explain next administrative steps and arrange permitted follow-up tasks.

Responsibility boundary

Discharge decisions and clinical instructions require responsible staff approval.

Stage 07 of 7

Follow-up and home care

What the agent supports

Support reminders, authorized information collection and escalation to the appropriate team.

Responsibility boundary

Urgent or clinically significant concerns follow the hospital's human escalation pathway.

Delivery controls

Define what the agent can do before it acts

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Approved scope and access

Define the tasks, users, data sources and tool permissions.

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Grounded outputs and review

Use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to ground LLM responses in approved documents and standard operating procedures (SOPs), with source references, checks for unsupported answers and human review.

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Evaluation and release control

Test realistic scenarios and failure cases before controlled introduction.

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Operational monitoring

Track task outcomes, exceptions and version changes with named service owners.

High-impact actions require explicit policy and accountable clinical review. Patient messages, source documents and tool responses are treated as data; they cannot change what an agent is permitted to do.

Introduce AI where it supports the maturity plan

Select AI use cases against the hospital's actual gaps, data readiness and operating capacity. Workflow adoption, interoperability and measurable use remain part of the delivery plan; adding AI alone does not establish a HIMSS stage.

Where analytics maturity is relevant, planning can reference the HIMSS Analytics Maturity Assessment Model (AMAM).

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