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Understanding medical terminology in medical records
Using HHS's standard medical terminology ensures that medical and healthcare staff have common understanding, and nothing is lost in misinterpretation. Working in a fast-paced, high-risk field, such as healthcare makes it important to ensure clarity with conciseness....
How to build a medical chronology
How can a Medical Chronology save you time and money? A well-indexed and organized medical record reduces 100% of the time spent in sorting the medical records and reduces review time by at least 40%. It indexes timelines and relevant details of the medical events to...
Making sense of PDF medical records – A research report
Over 5 million medical reviews each business day are done based on medical PDF/acrobat records. Telegenisys was no different but three years ago we decided to convert medical files into medical data we could use, refer to, and export from PDF files. We created...
Legal Nurse Consultant Medical Records Toolset
Legal Nurse Consultant Medical Records Toolset: A Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC) reviews thousands of pages in each medical record and from this extracts a few pages of summary for their clients. If the LNC fails to account for any salient point in these thousands of...
Examining Medical Records for Sufficiency for Medical Research
Telegenisys research support group retrieves and organizes medical records for natural history studies and clinical trials. Our teams often extract and summarize relevant retrospective data found in medical records. Medical record sufficiency is perhaps more pertinent...
Fitness and Frailty determinants for life expectancy
Fitness and frailty[1] factors help determine the physiological decline of a person over his lifetime. The coping mechanism of the body to the onslaught of diseases decreases as age progresses. An underwriter assessing for life expectancy looks at travel history,...
How history of present illness helps assess life expectancy
History of present illness is a summarized description that gives information regarding the progression of the client’s active illness from the onset to the present. History of present illness helps in medical decision making, investigate the client’s problem, and...
Medical record indexing
Medical record indexing is commonly used to access patient’s data faster. This allows the user to look up a small subset of the fields under bookmarks in PDF, which are stored in a sorted order and is used to find the actual data using the key. Indexing makes it...
BMI history helps assess life expectancy
BMI helps a medical records reviewer to assess the comorbidities that may be expected in a person who has a higher or lower body mass index than normal. What is BMI? BMI stands for Body Mass Index. It is a value to measure a person’s weight with respect to height. The...
Medical records simplified – Medical review software
Typically you start with a series of medical records from diverse providers (hospitals, doctors, specialists, etc.) We unify the medical record into a single complete referenced work file which allows you to see the highlights on one page regardless of the size of the...
