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Medical Record Summary Service
Medical record summary service is one of several solutions offered by medical outsourcing companies, medico-legal case review companies, and litigation consultants. These companies are served by qualified medical reviewers who take a great workload off their backs.
In the medical field, a medical record summary service can help to save time organizing medical records for review. It can also help to determine if a patient is or isn’t being properly treated for his/her ailment. In the legal field, it can help to assess the merits and demerits of a case. The summary service would help to identify: deviation or negligence from the standards of care, questionable happenings, particular areas requiring attention and pre-existing states that could have a bearing on the case. In the insurance industry, it gives direction for settlement and is useful for setting reserves.
More about the Medical Record Summary
A medical record summary is a concise version of the information found in a patient’s medical records. Arrangement and extensive research of the medical records such as progress notes, consultation notes, physician’s notes, and operating room records is done to prepare the summary. Though traditionally medical summaries are text-based, they may also include charts and tables. Information that may be included in this form of a summary includes: the cause of injury or accident, entry into and discharge from the hospital, immediate and ensuing care given, what diagnostic testing revealed, present diagnoses, medical expenditure and the patient’s deposition testimony.
Commendable Features
Some of the features of a medical record summary service are:
• Accurate data capture from handwritten text.
• Chronological arranging of patient data.
• Clearly highlighting the patient’s important medical information.
