What are the Key Components of a Complete Medical Record?

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What are the Key Components of a Complete Medical Record? A complete medical record will have a patient information form, medical history, physical examination, consent form, nursing records, doctor’s orders and progress reports, and more.

Medical practices need to maintain complete medical records with all the information about a patient’s health condition, medical history and other vital data. Accurate medical record data helps providers to take right treatment decisions. Today, most practitioners rely on professional medical transcription services to create and maintain accurate medical records. A patient’s medical history and care are systematically documented in a medical record. The record will also contain the patient’s health information (PHI), which includes identity data, medical examination results, and billing data. The amount, type, and degree of information included in medical records will vary from patient to patient. The valuable information in the

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