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Welcome to ClinicalChronology — turn medical records into cited timelines

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By ClinicalChronology Team
Welcome to ClinicalChronology — turn medical records into cited timelines

Medical record review is the slowest part of most personal injury, malpractice, and disability cases. A single matter can run hundreds or thousands of pages — emergency visits, imaging reports, follow-ups, treatment notes — scattered across providers and stitched together with no consistent date order.

ClinicalChronology automates the first pass. You upload the records, we extract the events, and you get a downloadable PDF chronology with citations linking each entry back to the source page. The pricing is simple: your first chronology is free up to 750 pages, then $0.40 per page after that. No subscription.

The problem with manual medical record review

Every reviewer has had this day. A client drops off 800 pages from three providers, the timeline is partially out of order, and you need a working chronology by Friday. The first pass is mechanical: scan each page, note the date, copy the provider, summarize the event, and figure out where it fits. By page 200 you are skimming. By page 500 you are guessing.

Manual review is also expensive. At a paralegal's billing rate, a 500-page record set is several hours of work that the client will see itemized. At a senior attorney's rate, it is faster to pay a paralegal but still slow.

The deeper problem is that the manual chronology breaks the audit trail. Once events are summarized into a Word document, the connection back to the source pages is gone — and any reviewer who comes back to verify a date has to re-find it.

How ClinicalChronology generates the timeline

You upload one or more PDFs through the dashboard. The system reads each page, identifies dated medical events (visits, diagnoses, treatments, imaging studies, prescriptions, hospital admissions, discharge summaries), normalizes the dates, and groups same-day events from the same provider so the timeline is not cluttered with duplicates.

Each extracted event keeps a pointer back to the source page it came from. When the chronology PDF is generated, the citation appears next to the entry — so any reviewer can jump from the summary back to the underlying record.

Processing is asynchronous. Small files complete quickly, large multi-document cases take longer. You receive an email when the chronology is ready.

What's in the chronology PDF

The output is a single PDF organized by date, with one entry per clinically meaningful event. Each entry contains:

  • The date of the event
  • The provider, facility, or department
  • A short summary of what occurred (visit type, key findings, treatments ordered)
  • A citation to the source page in the original record

The format is designed to drop into an existing case file — no special viewer required. Open it in any PDF reader, search by date or provider, print it, share it with co-counsel, attach it to a brief.

Verifying source citations

Citations are the part that matters when the chronology is challenged. Every entry has a page reference back to the original record, so a reviewer can pull up the underlying document and confirm that yes, this event happened on this date with this provider.

We do not summarize away the underlying record. The chronology is an index, not a replacement. When a deposition or expert report needs the original document, it is still there — the chronology just made it findable.

When to use private deployment

For most personal injury, medical review, and disability work, the standard pay-as-you-go service is the right call. You upload, we process, you download — pricing is per page processed, no subscription, no minimum.

For firms handling large volumes of regulated records, or that need HIPAA-aligned environments with Business Associate Agreements, we offer Private Deployment. Under Private Deployment, the ClinicalChronology software runs inside your own cloud environment, and your firm signs BAAs directly with the cloud and AI providers you choose. Contact us to talk through fit.

If you want to try ClinicalChronology on a real case, generate your first chronology free — up to 750 pages, no credit card required.

Generate your first chronology.

ClinicalChronology turns dense medical records into a cited, date-by-date timeline. Your first chronology is free up to 750 pages, then $0.40 per page processed.

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