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Placer

Most times in the hospital, when patients are ready for discharge, it takes multiple days to plan, driving up healthcare costs for Medicare patients by $24 billion a year.

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Predicts the likely discharge disposition from the chart early, then works barriers in the background via computer use and automated phone calls to facilities.

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Most times in the hospital, when patients are ready for discharge, it takes multiple days to plan, driving up healthcare costs for Medicare patients by $24 billion a year. We built a product to automate that from day one, able to tackle over 400 discharge blockers.
rdevathu/placer★ 00 forksHTMLCreated Jul 18, 2026 · last push Jul 19, 2026

README excerpt

# Placer (+ Iliad, the demo EHR it runs on)

A hackathon project for **agentic discharge-disposition planning**. The idea:
once a care team decides where a hospitalized patient should go after discharge
(home, skilled nursing, assisted living, inpatient rehab, hospice, …), a lot of
slow human legwork stands between that decision and the patient actually leaving
— calling SNFs for open beds, calling family for preferences, ordering
SNF-required labs (COVID tests), getting consults (PM&R) to qualify for rehab.
Patients wait extra days in the hospital for this.

**Placer** predicts the likely disposition from the patient's chart **early**
and works those barriers in the background (computer use + phone calls), so the
paperwork and coordination are already moving by the time the team commits.

**Iliad** is the general-purpose demo EHR that Placer runs on top of. Placer is
built in parallel as its own product; inside the Iliad UI it surfaces as a
per-patient **Placer** tab (predictions, care tasks, call log, and a chat
thread with the care team).

## This repo

- **`backend/`** — **Iliad's** backend: a lightweight, Epic-like EHR with a
  clean REST API over a single SQLite database. It mimics the core EHR
  functions (patients, encounters, notes, labs, meds, orders, problems) and
  hosts the Placer-facing constructs (predictions, care-task worklist,
  facilities, call logs, provider↔Placer chat). Everything is synthetic.
- **`frontend/`** — **Iliad's** UI: a lightweight, Linear-st

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