Healthy & Practical Guidance
Keeping Your Medical Records Organized
Your previous reports and images are useful at almost every appointment. Keeping them together saves time and helps your doctor.
Your Records
Why It Helps
Comparison is where the value is.
Many findings are more informative when they can be compared with an earlier examination. Growth measurements are the clearest example, but the same is true of many reports.
If your earlier records are to hand, your doctor can make that comparison at the appointment rather than afterwards.
What to Keep Together
Scan reports
Reports from previous ultrasound examinations.
Scan images
Any images you were given.
Laboratory reports
Blood tests and other laboratory results.
Referrals
Prescriptions or requisitions from your doctor.
A Practical Tip
Keep everything in one folder in date order, and photograph the most recent report so you have it on your phone if the folder is at home.
Appointment Notes
Questions you may want to ask
- Which previous reports should I bring to my next appointment?
- How far back is it useful to keep records?
- Should I bring the images as well as the report?
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