Where our health information comes from, and where it stops.

Sources

Authoritative sources, cited and linked.

Patient education shown in Sahara comes from MedlinePlus, a service of the US National Library of Medicine. It is retrieved by matching the standardized codes already in a record, such as RxNorm for medications, LOINC for lab tests and ICD-10-CM or SNOMED for conditions.

Guides on this site cite primary sources, typically CMS, FDA or NLM, and link to them so a reader can check the original rather than take our summary on trust.

The line

General education, never patient-specific interpretation.

Education is matched to the code for a medication, test or condition. It is never selected or worded based on a particular reading, value, dose or whether a result is normal or abnormal. Two people with the same test see the same explanation regardless of their numbers.

Sahara does not diagnose, prescribe, check medication interactions, monitor a condition, or tell anyone what their results mean. Those are decisions for a qualified clinician, and the software is built to route them there rather than answer them.

AI and translation

What AI is and is not used for.

Where a record is presented in another language, the work is faithful translation and organization of what the record already says. It does not interpret results, identify trends, prioritize concerns or generate patient-specific questions.

Education material from MedlinePlus is shown in the language the source itself publishes, not machine-translated by us. Machine translation of medical content can shift meaning in ways a reader cannot detect, so we do not do it to source material.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us.

If you find an inaccuracy in a guide or in how education is presented, write to support@synodha.com. Corrections to substantive errors are made on the page rather than quietly.

Nothing on this site or in Sahara is a substitute for professional medical advice. For an emergency, call your local emergency number.