Insurance companies deal with diverse claims including personal injury, mass tort, medical malpractice, product liability, and workers’ compensation claims. Insurers often pay only for those expenses that are directly related to the injury or illness. Insurance claim...
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....
Attorneys handling personal injury, toxic tort, medical malpractice and other cases will have to request for the relevant medical records for purposes of medical record review. The first thing you...
The medical records required for litigation purposes in cases such as medical malpractice, and personal injury and Workers’ Compensation claims can be voluminous. Analyzing and reviewing them is a...
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...
Irrespective of the fact whether the medical records are paper or electronic, patient records have to be retained. But how long do you need to retain these medical records? The question becomes more...
Medical records being vital with regard to provision of appropriate patient care, and also with regard to their use in medical litigation have to complete in all respects. When submitted for medical...
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...
Psychiatric illnesses have always been stigmatized, which is the major reason no one wants to publicize this personal malady. Usually, a patient’s psychiatric records are kept separate from the...
Frequent reports of the apparently careless handling of patient medical records raise questions about the HIPAA compliance of some healthcare providers. The Health Insurance Portability and...
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...
