The new OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) reporting requirements for injuries and illnesses pertains to high-hazard industries. This rule has been described as “groundbreaking” and expands the injury and illness data submission requirements for...
You have a pile of medical records pertaining to a particular case and you need to extract the required relevant information to set about preparing the case. When undertaking medical record review,...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued repeated warnings regarding the threat posed by unsecured medical records. Illicit exposure of medical records can have a negative impact...
During the period 2008 – 2011, the percentage of physicians that adopted basic EMRs in their practice doubled, according to data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011....
How safe is a central storage system for patient medical records? This thought must surely be doing the rounds in the minds of physicians and patients alike. The U.S. government’s efforts to...
Medical record review is an important process for attorneys involved in medical litigation. In fact, organizing the records is the first step in the process of understanding the case. You have to...
Is the automatic improvement in quality of care touted by the proponents of electronic health records a myth? Apart from improved care, the new system was also supposed to bring in remarkable cost...
In a medical malpractice case, the main evidence is the medical record. The patient’s chart is the reliable resource to establish regulatory compliance, accreditation and other important signifiers....
Medical records are storehouses of valuable evidence required in injury claims. However, the data available is unstructured and rather complex. If a person untrained in the medical aspects attempts...
Attorneys involved in medical litigation usually require organized hospital records. Legal nurse consultants and medical record review firms assisting attorneys arrange medical records in...
A survey conducted for Xerox in May 2012 presented the statistics that only 26% of Americans welcome digital medical records. A major concern seems to be the safety of their health data. However,...
