Medical Records Services Directory
Every time a patient receives health care, a record is maintained of the observations, medical or surgical interventions, and treatment outcomes. This record includes information that the patient provides concerning his or her symptoms and medical history, the results of examinations, reports of x rays and laboratory tests, diagnoses, and treatment plans. Medical records and health information technicians organize and evaluate these records for completeness and accuracy.
Currently, the medical records industry is in a major transition from paper to electronic records keeping. The digital conversion or digitizing of legacy paper files has become a large part of medical records services. This process of converting a patient's physical record to Electronic Medical Record or EMR is very intensive and complicated. Physical records are manually handwritten records of different healthcare professionals through out a patient's life span. These physical records come in different format, files, fonts, and different styles of penmanship.
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