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title: "Navigation | Hayhurst Medical Technologies"
description: "Oncology referral navigation across health systems: a quiet assistant for community providers that suggests the next step and qualified specialists nearby, with the clinician deciding."
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Platform · Navigation

# The space between health systems is where patients get lost.

Navigation tools usually work inside one hospital's walls. Many of the patients who most need a specialist are outside them: in community, rural and independent practices where a scan gets read and nobody follows the thread.

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## Research demonstration · synthetic patient

1. Reviewing chart since last visit  
Done
2. New finding in a screening report: breast mass, BI-RADS 4  
> “…heterogeneously dense breast tissue… suspicious mass, right breast, upper outer quadrant… BI-RADS 4… tissue sampling recommended…”  
Done
3. Checking prior imaging and labs  
Done
4. Matching nearby programs by capability, distance and coverage  
Done

Suggested next step

Diagnostic work-up and breast surgical oncology consultation

- Regional Cancer Center A3.2 milesComprehensive breast program
- University Breast Program B5.8 milesAcademic breast surgical oncology
- Community Oncology C1.5 milesClosest; accepts the patient’s coverage
Why these options

Programs are ranked only by capability for the suggested next step, travel distance and whether they accept the patient’s coverage. The clinician decides, and the patient chooses.

Minimum necessary data · processed under BAA

ApproveDecline

Our first product

## A quiet assistant for the clinician who ordered the scan.

When the detection engine flags a patient, navigation turns the flag into a practical next step. The referring clinician sees:

- the finding and the exact sentence it came from;
- a suggested next step, such as a specialist consultation or further work-up;
- a short list of qualified specialists and programs nearby, each with its distance and the reason it is on the list;
- a plain statement of the criteria used to build the list.

The clinician approves, edits or declines. Declining takes one click and a reason, and that feedback improves the system. Nothing is sent anywhere without the clinician's say-so.

Neutral by design

## The clinician decides. The patient chooses.

Suggestions are built from clinical need, specialist capability, distance and coverage. They are not a funnel to any one hospital, and the options are designed to always include programs that are not HMT customers.

A navigation network is only useful if clinicians and patients can trust its suggestions, so neutrality is designed in from the start.

In the workflow

## No new system to log in to.

The software is designed to work inside the electronic medical record a practice already uses, so suggestions appear where the clinician is already working.

## Keep reading

- ### [How it works](/platform/how-it-works/)  
The loop from finding to decision, and how a deployment starts as a silent pilot.
- ### [Detection](/platform/detection/)  
How flags are raised, and why every one comes with its source sentence.
- ### [Registry](/platform/registry/)  
What the network learns from every decision and outcome.