Medical Records Summary and Healthcare Record Summary Services

Medical records summarization or Medical Record Review is a service that will provide a summary of a patient's Electronic Health Records (EHR) in a chronologic, single, easy-to-browse, easy-to-understand view. It will give up-to-date status of a patient's current medical situation as well as relevant highlights of a patient’s medical records.

Medical records are created and updated by various delivery organizations, over a long period of time, and collected into digital archives. Patient records cover multiple treatments for multiple conditions over the patient's life time.

Medical record summarization is a complex and often tedious process which requires thorough knowledge and understanding of medical terminology as well as understanding of client need and requirements.

Medical Summarization consists of certain methodology and/or certain steps that need to be followed to get the most accurate results.

1. Organization: The first step is to digitize all data (if not already in digital form) and then organize and index all the records in a systemic manner.
2. Chronology: The next step is to list all the patient information in a chronologic order to create a clear timeline of events and care provided.
3. Review and Interpret: The last stage is to review and interpret the patient information as per client requirement. This may involve flagging or highlighting of certain relevant information as well as analysis based on certain criteria.

There are various types of Medical Summaries that can be prepared beginning from a Comprehensive Medical Summary which will give an in-depth and thorough view of patient records to Narrative Summaries which are descriptive in nature to just Chronological Summaries which provide exact timelines of relevant events.

The Medical Summarization process streamlines patient records into an organized and relevant structure. This is a boon especially to organizations associated with insurance claim settlements and /or litigations related to Workmen compensations arising out of injuries/diseases and ailments or all such conditions claimed to be due to job-related activities.

Medical Summarization services are very useful to medical practitioners involved in the litigation process, Law Firms, Insurance companies, Attorneys who specialize in personal injury claims, Independent Medical Evaluators, Medico-Legal Experts, etc. Medical summaries minimize the time spent by these professionals searching for relevant information and greatly speeds up their work schedules.