Privacy has always been important to people. It’s why people close their blinds, tint the windows in their car, or shred their mail before disposing of it. However, as technology evolves and continues to reshape the tools used to process, transfer, and store information, the ways in which we need to think about privacy are becoming more complex.

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Medical record retrieval is an important, time-consuming task fraught with potential pitfalls, delays, and errors. Entrusting a record retrieval service to gather mission-critical documents during claims or litigation adjudication can be a challenging task. Choosing the wrong service may result in overspending, lost time, and claims resolution delays – delays that negatively impacts your relationship with your client.

Medical record retrieval is not an insignificant cost when settling personal injury litigation. The good news is that T-Scan’s HITECH Directive Program successfully mitigates costs associated with medical record retrieval.

 A thorough assessment of where your time is going is the first step in improving your overall productivity. Unfortunately, the vast majority of insurers do not track the amount of time that their adjusters spend retrieving records during the claims process. And more often than not, the claims require some sort of protected records retrieval as part of the adjudication process.