Plain language is a clinical safety feature

A discharge note written at a postgraduate reading level is, for many patients, a closed door. Adherence drops not from unwillingness but from genuine misunderstanding.

The Health Literacy Checker exists to surface this gap quantitatively — reading difficulty, jargon density, and a plainer rewrite — so communication can be improved before it reaches a patient.

The goal is never to replace the clinician's words, but to make them land.