Epidemiology Support

Medical Record Services

Enhanced by the latest advances in technology, our medical record services provide clients with fast, efficient retrieval and abstraction of participant medical records customized to fit their data collection needs.

Cutting-Edge Record Retrieval and Data Abstraction
Traditional medical record retrieval requires many nurses from varying backgrounds to travel to medical facilities, tediously sift through patient medical records, manually log findings into a form for each patient and then send the forms to clients for data entry. Our unique centralized medical record services eliminate the need for nurses to travel to each location to painstakingly review medical charts. We also eliminate the separate step of data entry for our clients.

Instead, we have the medical facility fax patient medical records to a central location at EMSI where the documents are automatically scanned into a viewable online format. A group of specially trained nurses and certified coding specialists then review the records and abstract the pertinent information. The end result is our clients save time and money, and receive more consistent, better quality data.

SAM Can Help with Special Authorizations
We also have a facility file containing criteria requirements, addresses and phone numbers for more than 600,000 medical facilities, which speeds up facility contact and retrieval of medical records. In addition, for records requiring special authorization, clients can access our Special Authorization Manager (SAM), a CD containing more than 14,000 scanned special authorization forms required by facilities for release of records.