Medical Record Summarization Service Bring Promise of Health IT Closer to Reality

Medical Record Summarization Service Bring Promise of Health IT Closer to Reality

Healthcare industry is widely spread and is growing exponentially generating tons of documents to be assessed by law firms and insurance companies. They face a lot of challenges handling these records.

Medical record reorganization is one of the basic challenges, where hours are utilized just to sort the documents and arrange them in proper date sequence and document type per patient. Finding missing documents and incomplete records is another challenge they face while reorganizing the documents. Medical language expert or domain specialist is required while reviewing the documents to understand few critical medical terminologies used in the reports.  All of these challenges cost a lot of manpower, working hours and ultimately reflects on money and affects the processing of any claim. The firms require to hire more staff, need to have medical domain expertise.

Outsourcing these tasks can be a better solution to all of the above problems. The medical documents can be arranged in a proper customized sequence, bookmarked and can be ready for review. A detailed report generated on missing and incomplete or illegible documents can be along with organized documents will help the law firms to contact the respective medical centers to provide the missing information with the help of this report. Well-organized documents helps attorneys for easy navigation through the course of the patient’s treatment. This helps in reducing the claim processing time.

Medical record summarization is another outsourced service. Summarized medical data/records by group of domain expert helps lawyers and claim analysts to extract accurate and vital information from the given records reduces the efforts put by attorneys and lawyers to generate reviews from complex handwritten documents or lengthy medical reports. Key word capturing, disease oriented summarization, summarization of records from a particular period are some of the characteristics that  are attracting law firms and claim companies to opt for this service.

Chronologically organized medical records, report type based categorization, systematic review of every record from prescriptions to complex anesthesia reports and other customized comprehension styles help expedite the claim process by quick decision making. Supporting litigation firms and claim companies by managing the medical records provides chance to focus on the core business. There is significant reduction in manpower, infrastructure and processing cost.

Medical record reorganization and summarization not only help the business growth but also assure integrity of the data and assures fair judgement on the claim processing.

Conclusion:

ITCube has expert team of doctors, pharmacists and medical experts in medical data summarization and reorganization. We have a strong team of experts with over 10 years of experience in the healthcare record management industry. If you are interested or to know more, call on +1 (614) 434-2376 or send us your queries at info@itcubebpo.com.

Electronic Medical Records : Biggest Bestowals from IT Industry to Healthcare Domain

Electronic Health Record - The Biggest Contribution to Healthcare

Discovery of medicines and medical science is the biggest event in the history of mankind. From ancient times till few centuries back the patients were treated successfully by the physicians, but there were hardly any records available for every case they handled and every aspect of that case. We have lost that data, which could have been helpful in the modern medicine world. Many special treatments given for particular symptom, any different kinds of techniques used while treating the patients or any new type of medicinal formulas have gone under the cover of undocumented history. When we understood the need of recording the data in healthcare sector, it gave rise to different types of medical records.

Earlier these records were mostly handwritten. Slowly the report typing system was introduced. We faced multiple disadvantages with this type of medical records.

1. There was no copy of the records, so if the record gets misplaced/damaged there is no backup for the data.
2. Handwritten documents were many a times illegible, so the data extracted from those documents was partial.
3. Damaged handwritten documents used to get fade up, which was again a problem in integrity of the data.
4. Archival of those records was a big task.
5. Handling those records was difficult.
6. For any purpose those documents were needed to get reorganized manually.
7. As it was based on manual activity, most of the times the data on the actual record was incomplete.
8. There was limitation for data capturing due to dependability on type of data (graphical reports were difficult to capture as a medical record).
9. Portability of the documents and transferring data to the other center was a headache.
10. Records were misplaced multiple times and no copies were available for the same.
11. During that period the importance of the medical data was not very well understood and therefore medical data privacy and ethical practices were not much implemented for any medical records.
12. Data capturing on timely basis was time consuming and difficult for the healthcare professionals.

Electronic Health Records

IT Field extended its tools to help medical domain in solving these problems. This has given rise to the concept called Electronic Medical Record, widely accepted and practiced these days and also known as EMR. This brought revolution in the field of medical data handling.

Adding medical data for any patient on computers, storing it in the small hard drive, reviewing the same data again and again, easy updating and editing the data are few of the key benefits this system has provided to us.

Types of EMR:

Medical health records start with entering the patient with his/her specific ID numbers to the computer. Adding history of the patient including social, family, past medical, surgical history and medicinal history generates initial intake report, which is used and updated every time the patient visits the center.

• Various office notes, chart notes, therapy notes generated date wise provide detailed information of the treatment flow of that patient.
• Operative reports, nurse’s reports, assessment and flow sheets, discharge summaries provide accurate data for every minute spent during hospital admissions. These also include various graphs, which add value to the data. They are also system generated and a part of medical health record.
• Ante-partum records, birth records, development records, death records and also postmortem reports has their own importance.
• Various MRIs, CT scans, laboratory studies, x-rays and other diagnostic studies are reported via electronic medical records only.

Advantages of EMR:

1. Data can be stored and can be reviewed multiple times, got rid from pills of files.
2. Editing and updating the data is easy.
3. Electronic capturing system forms make sure that the data is complete and with the latest technology we can be sure about the integrity of the data.
4. Medical data privacy and ethical practices can be very well implemented as part of HIPAA privacy rule.
5. Secured portability of the data is possible using this latest technology. 
6. Damage to the data is very rare and can be corrected easily.
7. Illegible data is no longer a problem.
8. Archiving a large amount of data is cost effective, safe and easy.
9.  Reduced data capturing time.
10. Very easy to handle and generate.
11. Require less space.
12. Reorganization of the medical records is very easy.

Scope of EMR:

All the leading countries and developing countries are using EMR in their day-to-day medical data capturing.

1. Past records are required in deciding current treatment.

2. Analyzing the effectiveness of drugs in drug development.

3. In insurance/claim processing.

4. In deciding disability status.

5. For any medico-legal actions.

6. As a part of police investigation.

7. Employment scanning.

8. Drug dispensing and monitoring systems.

9. Auditing research and evaluations.

Laws for EMR:

The laws, rule and regulations change in every country for

1. Accessibility
2. Privacy.
3. Ownership.
4. Archival period.
5. Destruction of EMR.

EMR indeed is a bestowal as it has improved the quality of healthcare services and healthcare professionals can now focus more on the core work by spending very minimal time and energy on EMR.

To know more about EHR or medical record summarization, you can mail us on info@itcubebpo.com or you can call us on +1 (614) 434-2376.

Medical Data Reorganization - Approach Towards Efficiency

Medical Data Reorganization - Approach Towards Efficiency

Medical data is any information related to the patient’s health, it could be an observation, an impression, histological information or may be a complaint from the patient. Medical data includes current complaints, past information of surgeries or diseases, medications, treatments rendered, tests carried out, evaluations, examination findings, habits, body system status or could be visit scheduling notes, off work instructions, aftercare guidelines, email correspondence with doctors or orders to nurse. An enormous data gets collected for a patient from various medical center and for various dates.

Source of Medical Data…!

Medical records generated at different stages of treatment are the best source of medical data. These records include simple records from accident report, operative report, history reports, diagnostic testing report to complex flow sheets, graphs from various monitoring instruments, x-ray films and even handwritten notes. One can capture an important medical information scribbled on other report by doctors or nurses.

Medical Record Reorganization

As multiple records are generated containing medical information on different dates at different locations for a patient, it is very necessary to organize this medical information in a systematic way to enable any claim adjuster or any attorney to easily navigate through the pile of records.

Arranging these records with an appropriate date chronology based on the locations and medical report type reduces the stress and time put in by claim processors or attorney.

Well-organized Records Facilitate:

• Easy accessibility to a particular record.
• Helps understand the treatment flow.
• Missing records are easily traceable.
• Easy navigation through the medical data for a specific illness or disease.
• More focus can be given for core business as the record handling time is drastically reduced.

ITCube and Medical Record Reorganization:

ITCube provides customized medical record reorganization services to law firms and insurance companies. Team of domain expertise understands the specifications required and caters the needs. Handling large volumes in stipulated time and providing well-organized medical records has proved to be the keystone for more than 10 years of exponentially growing business associations with satisfied customers.

To know more you can contact us on info@itcubebpo.com    or you can call us on +1 (614) 434-2376.