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In this age of the Internet and electronic discovery (evidence) in lawsuits, many of us trial lawyers are finding a treasure trove of evidence in medical metadata for malpractice cases.
First, two definitions: EMR means "electronic medical records", which essentially are the same medical records that used to be in paper document form. METADATA describes other information or data. It provides information about a certain item's content. For instance, an image may include metadata that describes how large the picture (image) is, the color depth of the image, the image's resolution, when the image was created, and other data about the image. A text document's metadata may contain information about how long the document is, who the author is, when the document was written, and a short summary of the document.
Today in medical malpractice cases, our document discovery requests include electronically-stored information; and we want the information in its native electronic format, because in electronic format the records will contain metadata that informs us of key facts about the authors of the data, the recipients of the data, the dates and times of creation of the data, alterations on the data, etc.
All electronic medical records (EMR) that are created and/or stored are just like any other electronic records : they have metadata ! As more medical providers and facilities transition to electronic medical records, medical record metadata has never been more important in the fields of personal injury , medical malpractice and wrongful death litigation.
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