Clinical Note Compliance Checker

An intelligent system that uses AWS Comprehend Medical to analyze clinical notes for HIPAA/CMS compliance.

Features

• Automated clinical note analysis using AWS Comprehend Medical
• HIPAA and CMS compliance checking
• Real-time processing with AWS Lambda
• Secure data storage in DynamoDB
• RESTful API interface

Tech Stack

• AWS Comprehend Medical for NLP and medical entity recognition
• AWS Lambda for serverless processing
• Amazon DynamoDB for data storage
• FastAPI for REST API
• Python 3.9+

Project Structure

clinical-note-checker/
├── src/
│   ├── api/          # FastAPI application
│   ├── lambda/       # AWS Lambda functions
│   ├── models/       # Data models
│   └── utils/        # Utility functions
├── tests/            # Test cases
├── config/           # Configuration files
└── requirements.txt  # Python dependencies

Setup Instructions

1. Create and activate virtual environment:

   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .\venv\Scripts\activate

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Configure AWS credentials:

   • Copy config/.env.example to config/.env
   • Fill in your AWS credentials and other configuration

4. Run the application:

   # Instructions to be added

Development

• Follow PEP 8 style guide
• Run tests with pytest
• Format code with black
• Type checking with mypy

Security

• All sensitive data must be stored in environment variables
• AWS credentials should never be committed to version control
• Follow principle of least privilege for AWS IAM roles

License

MIT