Earlier, one of the major concerns when providing medical record review services was the illegible handwriting of physicians. The electronic health record was introduced and made mandatory with a view to improve the quality of care, reduce medical record errors, and...
Electronic health records no doubt have many benefits such as ease of access, retrieval, sharing and medical records review among others. However, there are risks associated with them as many...
This is the age of the electronic health record (EHR) and there is no doubt the system has a number of benefits that come with automation. They are meant to standardize data collection, provide...
Medical records are vital to a personal injury attorney representing an injured person or the defense attorney representing the physician or other care provider. These valuable documents provide a...
The U.S. government made EMRs (electronic medical records) mandatory with a view to improving the treating physicians’ accessibility to their patients’ medical history and thereby enhancing patient...
Medical record review for attorneys handling personal injury or mass tort cases focuses on gathering and summarizing the key components of the victim’s medical chart. Doctors and hospitals often...
Electronic medical records are here to stay even though only a small percentage of hospitals in the United States have implemented the same and qualified for federal incentive payments. Medical...
Medical records are highly sensitive documents that need to be kept confidential at all times. Now, with the advent of electronic records, safety of protected healthcare information is becoming a...
EHRs in litigation – many practitioners may not have given serious consideration to the fact that EHRs contain important information relevant to malpractice litigation and may be “discoverable” from...
The transition to electronic medical records has considerable impact on both healthcare and legal entities. While EHRs do have their merits, there are certain challenges that are difficult to deal...
Extensive and effective sharing or reviewing of healthcare information across the healthcare continuum is made difficult by many challenges, among which “information blocking” is one of the most...