History of Present Illness (HPI) Template

The HPI template is a structured documentation tool designed to capture the full story behind a patient's chief complaint. With prompts for all eight core elements: location, quality, severity, duration, timing, context, modifying factors, and associated symptoms; it ensures nothing gets missed between the conversation and the chart, including the pertinent negatives that shape the differential.

It's especially useful for new patient visits, acute complaints, and any encounter where the history drives the workup. By organizing the narrative chronologically, the template produces an HPI that supports clinical reasoning, downstream coding, and clean handoffs to consultants or covering providers. Optimized for use with Sully.ai's AI medical scribe, it helps clinicians document a complete history while staying focused on the patient.