EHR Timeline Reconstruction
A chronological reconstruction built from documentation, order, result, and medication timestamps, flowsheets, audit logs, and metadata.
What this service is
A chronological reconstruction built from documentation, order, result, and medication-administration timestamps, flowsheets, audit logs, access logs, alert activity, and metadata.
When attorneys use it
When documentation timing, sequence, or contemporaneousness is disputed.
Questions it may answer
- •When were events documented versus when they occurred?
- •Are the timestamps internally consistent?
Evidence reviewed
- •Documentation and system timestamps, flowsheets, audit and access logs, metadata.
Deliverables
- •A reconciled timeline with flagged discrepancies.
Limitations
Timestamps require interpretation and, at times, the native system, data dictionary, or vendor context.