DRG Clinical Validation · Live protected demo

DRG validation review,
built as a workflow with the nurse reviewer in the loop.

A synthetic-data DRG validation copilot that helps a nurse reviewer work seeded DKA and Sepsis cases: chart and criteria side-by-side, four-section draft output, and an editable Pareo-safe internal note. Built from nearly 13 years as an ICU registered nurse plus hands-on AI workflow implementation. Gated behind Cloudflare Access — no real PHI, reviewer-in-the-loop, no automated overrides. Unattended demos use deterministic mock output; live OpenAI is for operator-hosted walkthroughs only.

Problem

DRG validation review is documentation-heavy, exception-heavy, and easy to get wrong under time pressure. Reviewers spend a large share of their time reading unstructured clinical narrative, cross-checking documentation against criteria, and manually tracking what has and has not been checked on a given case.

Tooling in this space tends to either (a) drop AI suggestions into a freeform interface with no workflow, or (b) automate hard decisions that should belong to a qualified reviewer. Both modes erode trust and create rework. The opportunity is the middle: structure the workflow, capture evidence as the reviewer moves through it, and keep the human as final authority.

What was built

A synthetic-data clinical validation assistant designed around the way a nurse reviewer actually works the case: surface the chart and criteria side-by-side, generate a four-section draft, and let the reviewer edit, save, and copy an internal note. Unattended demonstrations use deterministic mock output.

Every AI-assisted suggestion is treated as draft support content. The reviewer can edit the internal note and submit feedback. The nurse reviewer remains the final authority; saved drafts are not clinical, coding, or payment decisions.

Core workflow

  1. 1Open a synthetic DKA or Sepsis case and inspect its chart and criteria.
  2. 2Generate a draft with evidence summary, criteria comparison, recommendation draft, and Pareo-ready internal note.
  3. 3Check the provider, model, and prompt-version stamp; unattended demos use mock output.
  4. 4Edit and save the internal note; formatting checks sanitize the saved text.
  5. 5Copy the note and submit reviewer feedback such as useful or missed evidence.
  6. 6Review recorded activity in the operator audit view. The nurse remains the final authority.
Current status

Live protected demo — behind Cloudflare Access

The demo runs at drg-demo.twosevens.ai and is gated by Cloudflare Access. Visiting the URL directly will not grant access; reviewers must request approval first. Use the gateway below — that is where access requests are accepted.

Safety boundary

The boundaries below are not aspirational — they are how the demo is actually run.

  • Synthetic cases only

    No real patient records, no protected health information, no de-identified production data. Cases are constructed for demonstration.

  • Reviewer-in-the-loop, always

    AI output is draft support content. A qualified nurse reviewer is the final authority on every disposition.

  • Not approved for real PHI

    This is a demonstration surface. It is not a HIPAA-cleared production system and makes no PHI-readiness claim.

  • Access by approval only

    Exact-email allow-list managed by hand. External reviewers are added only after a request is submitted and reviewed.

Architecture

The shape, not the secrets. No internal hostnames, no network-level identifiers, no Cloudflare Access policy IDs.

Web application

Next.js application that renders the reviewer surface and serves the validation workflow. Containerised for reproducible build and deploy.

Persistence

Postgres holds synthetic case content, draft reviews, edited notes, and reviewer activity. The hosted demo is restricted to synthetic examples; real patient records must not be entered.

Access edge

Cloudflare Access fronts the demo with an exact-email allow-list and a tunnel route. Approval is manual; nobody reaches the application surface without prior review.

Reviewer workflow

Chart and criteria → four-section draft → reviewer edits and feedback. The demo records review activity; it does not make diagnosis, coding, payment, or reimbursement decisions.

CI and operational discipline

The demo release is checked with tests, lint, type-checking, a production build, and a dependency audit. Browser checks exercise the reviewer workflow before deployment.

Access model

External reviewers only get access after an explicit approval. There is no public path to the live demo.

Exact-email allow-list

External reviewers receive access only after a request is submitted through the gateway and the email is added to the allow-list by hand.

Manual approval window

Access requests are reviewed manually; no response-time commitment or automated provisioning is offered.

Scope-limited session

Approved reviewers see the synthetic-data demo only. Operator surfaces, configuration, and any internal tooling stay out of scope.

Disclaimers — read these

  • Not for use with real protected health information. The hosted demo accepts synthetic clinical scenarios only.
  • Synthetic / demo data only. Cases shown to reviewers are constructed examples, not derived from real patient records.
  • Nurse reviewer remains the final authority. Any AI-assisted output is draft support content, not a coding or clinical decision.
  • Output is draft support content. It exists to accelerate review, not to replace it.

Request protected demo access

Reviewers, healthcare AI evaluators, and hiring teams: submit a request through the gateway. Access is granted by hand after a manual review of the request.

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Background — Why I can build this responsibly

Why this work is grounded in real clinical operations

I built this work from nearly 13 years as an ICU registered nurse, including about 11 years in travel nursing across multiple hospital systems. That background gives me a practical view of how clinical documentation, handoffs, staffing pressure, fragmented workflows, and operational risk actually show up on the floor.

I combine that clinical experience with hands-on work in AI-enabled workflow systems, distributed infrastructure, automation, and production-style software design. My focus is not replacing clinical judgment. It is building tools that reduce friction, preserve accountability, and keep humans in control of high-consequence decisions.

What I help teams do

  • Diagnose where workflows break, stall, or create rework
  • Redesign operational processes into cleaner states, rules, and checkpoints
  • Implement AI-assisted workflows with validation and human oversight
  • Test workflows for edge cases, exception paths, and failure conditions
  • Improve operational consistency without hiding risk
  • Support go-live, adoption, and cross-functional handoffs
  • Translate operational pain into implementation-ready systems and rollout plans

Related proof

The same workflow discipline applied to adjacent problems — extraction-to-structured-output automation, workflow gating with evidence capture, and reliability practice on distributed operations.

AI Autolister

Inconsistent source inputs become validated, structured outputs through extraction → normalization → validation → human review.

What the buyer gets

Manual processing burden goes downAutomation handles repetitive extraction and normalization
Output consistency goes upRule-based normalization plus AI-assisted enrichment with validation thresholds
Quality control is preservedHuman-review gate sits between automated output and downstream publication

Workflow-Gated Operations

Workflow-heavy operations get staged state, required-action gates, evidence capture, and controlled closeout.

What the buyer gets

Process drift goes downRequired-action gates make step ordering explicit, not tribal
Audit trail gets cleanerEvidence capture is attached to state transitions, not retro-built
Rework from missed steps dropsCloseout is blocked until validation checks pass

Reliability & Pipeline Operations

A private multi-node lab described through production-style repository controls: service separation, recoverability, and queue-backed execution.

What the buyer gets

Failures are recoverable, not catastrophicBatch checkpointing, fault tolerance, queue-backed orchestration
Workload roles remain separated to reduce couplingGPU hosts, application services, and data layers separated cleanly
Operations look like a productMonitoring, observability, and reliability treated as first-class concerns

Capabilities

What I bring to employer teams working on clinical AI, workflow redesign, and infrastructure-heavy automation.

Workflow & implementation

Clinical workflow optimizationProcess redesignRequirements gatheringWorkflow testing & validationFailure-point analysisException-path designChange managementGo-live executionUAT supportSOP & playbook design

Healthcare AI delivery

Healthcare AI implementationHuman-in-the-loop AIStructured output generationReview-gate designUnstructured-to-structured transformationOCR / extraction workflowsData normalization & validation

Technical systems

Distributed systems operationsQueue-backed processingBatch & orchestrationReliability & observabilityAPI-oriented systems thinkingFault tolerance & recoverability
Available for evaluation

Work with me on clinical AI workflows

I take on workflow audits, clinical AI implementation, and technical solutions engineering through scoped work with concrete artifacts.