ZAP Search (BETA)

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ZAP Search is currently in BETA

ZAP Search is under active development and only available to select customers at this time. However, we plan to make this feature generally available to all customers later in the first half of 2026.

ZAP Search searches across all clinical documents in a patient’s ZAP to help users quickly find relevant information.

When to use ZAP Search

ZAP Search is useful when you want to quickly locate information within clinical documents, such as:

• Evidence of a screening or procedure
• Symptoms mentioned in clinical notes
• Historical documentation of a condition
• References to hospitalizations or encounters

If you are reviewing structured data such as medications, conditions, or lab results, you may prefer to navigate directly to those sections of the ZAP.

How ZAP Search works

1. Enter a search term (a keyword or phrase) into the ZAP Search field.
2. Results are returned from clinical documents associated with the patient.
3. Results are sorted by relevance, based on how closely the document text matches your query and how frequently the search term appears in documents. Users can also choose to sort by date.
4. Each result shows a text snippet from the document for context.
5. Click a result to open the side panel.
6. From the side panel, select Source Document to open the full document in the document viewer.

Smart Search

By default, ZAP Search searches not just for the provided search term, but also closely related terms using Smart Search. For example, if a user enters hypertension, ZAP Search will search for hypertension, high blood pressure, elevated blood pressure, htn, and other related terms.

Users can also select Exact match only to turn off Smart Search.

Current limitations

Below are current ZAP Search limitations, which we intend to address in upcoming releases:

• ZAP Search is limited to specific sections of CDA Documents, including progress notes, discharges summaries, and other sections containing unstructured text. Certain CDA sections containing structured text (such problem or medication lists) may be excluded from search results. We will be expanding ZAP Search soon to include other data types, such as PDFs and structured data such as Conditions, Medications, and Diagnostics.
• The first search for a patient may take a few seconds, but subsequent searches should return much faster.
• Occasionally, there is content visible in a CDA document that is not available to be searched, so it will not return as a search result. We are working to ensure all content in CDA documents is available to be searched.