About Diagnoxal
Structured diagnostic reasoning for mental health professionals.
The Technology
Diagnoxal runs a fixed sequence of diagnostic checks on every case. Every criterion is validated against the vignette before a diagnosis is suggested, and no conclusion is finalized while a medical or substance cause remains unexamined.
The Reasoning Pipeline
Each stage mirrors a check a careful clinician already runs; the value is that none of them is ever skipped.
- 1. History Taking: Symptoms, timeline, severity, exposures, and functional impairment are extracted from your free-text vignette. In blinded mode, prior diagnostic labels are set aside first, the way a fresh consult starts.
- 2. Differential Generation: Multiple diagnostic possibilities are raised at once, including medical mimics and substance or medication effects, so rare presentations are not overlooked.
- 3. Criterion Matching: Every hypothesis is tested against DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 criteria, each criterion tied to quoted evidence from your vignette.
- 4. Adversarial Verification: The leading diagnosis is deliberately challenged, the way a colleague pushes back at case conference; weak matches are demoted.
- 5. Etiology Gate: While a medical or substance cause remains live (an unordered TSH, a new medication, escalating alcohol use), no primary psychiatric label is finalized. The formulation stays provisional, with the workup stated.
- 6. Grounding Gate: Any statement that cannot be traced back to your vignette is removed. No invented lab values, no assumed findings; missing data are named as missing.
- 7. Validity Compilation: Statuses are normalized, confidence is capped to what the evidence supports, and the diagnostic posture (provisional vs. supported) is set by rule, not by tone.
- 8. Second Opinion: In both mode, an anchored analysis (with referral context) and a blinded analysis (without it) are compared. Disagreement is surfaced, not averaged away.
What Makes This Different
- Structured Output: Diagnostic considerations include explicit reasoning explaining why each element fits or doesn't fit the presentation.
- Evidence Attribution: The system references specific findings from your vignette to support each consideration.
- Conservative Reasoning: Unknown information is explicitly marked as "needs verification" rather than assumed.
- Targeted Inquiry: The system generates specific questions to help you clarify ambiguous criteria during your patient interview.
Privacy Architecture
- Clinical vignettes exist only in memory during analysis (stateless processing).
- No patient data is stored or logged.
- All transmissions encrypted via HTTPS.
- Aliases recommended for complete de-identification.
How to Use Diagnoxal
1. Prepare the Clinical Vignette
Compile relevant patient information including:
- Presenting symptoms and chief complaint
- History of present illness
- Mental status examination findings
- Psychiatric history
- Medical history and current medications
- Relevant psychosocial factors
- Family psychiatric history
2. De-identify Before Submission
Replace or remove:
- Patient names → use aliases like "Patient A"
- Dates of birth → use age only
- Specific locations
- Employer or school names
- Any unique identifiers
3. Review the Analysis
You will receive:
- Primary diagnostic considerations
- Detailed evaluation with supporting evidence
- Differential diagnoses with supporting/opposing factors
- Recommendations for further evaluation
- Safety alerts if risk factors are detected