Medical summaries blog
Medical summary
Telegenisys supports more than 100 summary formats to support the ten main use cases our clients currently require with more formats added all the time to keep up with new client needs. Telegenisys review team consists of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other medical professionals. This blog is curated by our medical review team to improve the way we present medical data. We share details about our formats and their applications to real world situations. We often incorporate the results of our discussions into our medical information displays. We love feedback that improves this effort and welcome it, so please feel free to provide your critique, comments and suggestions. Thank you for your interest.
Telegenisys Medical Review Team
10 Unique ways we make better medical summaries
Our scientific approach to medical record data summarization, supports every assertion we include in our medical summaries with multiple levels of references. Our summaries are provided to our customers in one unified PDF file which includes: The overview page or Page...
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....
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...
Importance of indexing medical records by category
Medical chronology is an organized, succinct record of medical facts. It is a record of medical events in the order of their occurrence. This involves reading through hundreds of pages of medical records and arranging them in an accurate chronological manner from...
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...
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...
Past medical history helps assess life expectancy
Past Medical History (PMH) is perhaps the most important section of doctors' notes impacting longevity assessment. When looked at medical conditions chronologically these provide a progression of disease severity or resolution. Unresolved diseases with chronic...
How are medical summaries useful to lawyers?
Medical summaries useful to lawyers Organizing medical records into a usable medical summary for lawyers is a vastly different output than its medical counterpart for a Life Expectancy Certificate or for Insurance.The documentation, both pre-litigation and during...
