Shira Smith

  Believe it or not, medical record summarization and organization is an indispensable service – particularly for companies that are associated with litigations and insurance claim settlements. Such services come in handy in the case of injuries and ailments that are generally job-related. It is also of significant value in cases related to medical malpractice, where the medical staff or the establishment is charged with medical negligence or perhaps deviating from the set standards of medical care. Thus, in short, the service is all about thorough retrieval, organization, and precise summarization of the medical records.   How is medical record summarization different?   Medical record summarization and précis writing have nothing in common. A company rendering such services has one single purpose – so that the service can be used by plaintiffs or defendants, as may be necessary. It is thus a shortened or abridged version of the medical records with all essentia...

  A complete record of a patient’s medical history documented by a physician is called a physician chart review . A medical chart is a valuable document that is necessary for various legal and medical uses. Different medical or physician chart reviews have different uses. The points below explore those uses:     Chart review for medical purposes   These chart reviews are mostly needed by healthcare organizations and health insurance companies to provide optimal costs and determine the aptness of care. Pre-authorizations and concurrent hospitalization reviews fall under this type of category.   Chart reviews for legal purposes   In some medico-legal cases, courts require valid information about the quality of medical care. This is done to find any kind of medical negligence. A physician chart review is often done by an expert medical review team hired by the defense lawyer. They review all the provided medical records to prepare a statem...