Medical Record Review Challenges for Personal Injury Attorneys
MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW
While handling personal injury cases, attorneys may have to review voluminous medical records to understand the medical issues in the case. Records that need to be reviewed include physician visits, annual health check reports, hospital visits, admission and discharge summaries, operative notes, laboratory reports, and so on. Medical record analysis is quite time consuming.
Medical Chart Review Challenges for Attorneys
Handwritten notes and illegible handwriting Not possible even to find out who wrote what
Difficult to understand abbreviations and jargon Certain abbreviations used by physicians can difficult to comprehend
Charting systems are not uniform Charting systems may vary among facilities
Incomplete medical record set The report may be missing out on nursing notes, surgery reports and so on
Meaningful information unavailable on the EHR This can happen when the software is awkwardly designed
Lack of chronological order Medical records that are not properly arranged will make it difficult to track the sequence of events
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