Asheboro residents often navigate a mix of local clinics, regional referral centers, and hospital visits that may involve multiple handoffs. In real life, diagnostic problems don’t only happen in one moment—they can appear during:
- Triage and routing (what symptoms get flagged, and what gets deprioritized)
- Follow-up timing (whether abnormal results trigger prompt contact or are missed)
- Imaging and lab handoffs (who receives the result, when, and how it’s documented)
- Communication between facilities (especially when care is split across settings)
When automated tools are part of the process—such as risk scoring, clinical decision support, or imaging workflow assistance—the question isn’t “was the technology used?” It’s whether the system’s output was treated appropriately and whether clinicians responded to conflicting findings.


