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Physician analysis of the evidence behind the chart.
Educational writing for attorneys on EHR evidence, quality, and patient safety.
Digital Evidence
Why the Printed Medical Record May Be Incomplete
The printed chart is a report generated from a much larger system. Reading a case well means reading the evidence behind the report.
Read the article →EHR Audit Logs
Documentation Time Is Not Always Event Time
Metadata separates when care happened from when it was charted. In a timeline dispute, that difference can be decisive.
Read more →Discovery Strategy
Five EHR Records Commonly Missed in Medical Discovery
Beyond the printed chart, five categories of EHR evidence that standard record requests often leave behind.
Read more →Clinical Informatics
How Clinical Decision Support Can Affect a Medical Malpractice Case
Alerts and clinical decision support shape what a clinician sees at the decision point. The logs show what was presented and how it was handled.
Read more →Patient Safety
How Throughput and Boarding Affect Patient Safety
Operational conditions like crowding, boarding, and handoffs shape care. The EHR carries evidence of the system a clinician was working within.
Read more →Root Cause Analysis
Patient Journey Reconstruction Versus Traditional Chronology
A chronology lists what the chart says happened. A reconstruction rebuilds what actually happened across systems, sources, and timestamps.
Read more →Clinical Workflows
What an Order Set Can Reveal About Clinical Workflow
Order sets encode how an institution expected care to be delivered. Their content and version history illuminate the workflow behind a case.
Read more →EHR Audit Logs
What Attorneys Should Know About EHR Audit Logs
A plain-English primer on the audit trail, what it records, what it can show, and how to request it.
Read more →Root Cause Analysis
What Root Cause Analysis Can and Cannot Prove
Root cause analysis identifies how a system failure happened and whether it was preventable. It is not the same as legal causation.
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Why Native EHR Data Matters
The printed chart is a formatted report. Native data preserves detail, structure, and metadata that the printout compresses or omits.
Read more →Know what to request in discovery.
The EHR Discovery Checklist covers the electronic evidence that standard record production leaves behind.