# Medical Record Chronology

> The physician's guide to building and checking a medical record chronology: columns, page citations, deduplication, gaps in care, a free template, a gap finder and a by-hand vs software time calculator. Published by Medrecords AI (https://medrecords.ai/), which makes 1 of the products covered.

- [Medical record chronology: the physician's guide](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/): Medical record chronology for physicians: the columns, page citations, duplicates, gaps in care, a free template and a time calculator, by hand vs software.
- [Medical record chronology format: the columns and the rules](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/format/): The medical record chronology format column by column: how to date, cite, quote and flag each row so a physician can rely on it and defend it at deposition.
- [Medical record chronology template](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/template/): A free medical record chronology template for physicians: header, 8 columns, duplicate log and gap log, filled in on a synthetic file, with copy buttons.
- [How to build a medical record chronology, step by step](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/step-by-step/): How a physician builds a medical record chronology in 8 steps, from referral questions to a citation check, shown on a synthetic 64-page IME file.
- [Gaps in care and duplicate pages in a medical chronology](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/gaps-and-duplicates/): How to handle duplicate pages and gaps in care in a medical record chronology, with a synthetic page map, 4 gap types and a free in-browser gap finder.
- [Building a chronology by hand vs with software: time and cost](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/by-hand-vs-software/): How long a medical record chronology takes by hand vs with software, from published estimates, with a time and cost calculator for your own file size.
- [Tools for building a medical record chronology](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/tools/): Tools for building a medical record chronology, from a spreadsheet to AI software and review services, with who each is built for and dated vendor prices.
- [Medrecords AI: our product, described plainly](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/medrecords-ai/): Medrecords AI, publisher of this site, described plainly: what its chronology does, the price per page, what it doesn't do and who should pick another tool.
- [Medical record chronology glossary](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/glossary/): Plain definitions of 22 terms used in medical record chronology work, from addendum and Bates number to copy-forward, gap in care and near-duplicate.
- [Medical record chronology: frequently asked questions](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/faq/): Short answers to the questions physicians ask about medical record chronologies: format, citations, duplicates, gaps, time, cost and who checks the result.
- [Methodology and conflict of interest](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/methodology/): Where the facts on this site come from, how the time figures and synthetic example were built, and our rules, since Medrecords AI publishes this site.
- [About this guide](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/about/): Medical Record Chronology is a physician's guide published by Medrecords AI. Who owns it, who writes it, why it exists and how to send a correction.
- [Privacy](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/privacy/): This site has no forms, accounts, ads or tracking cookies, and the gap finder and calculator run in your browser. What our host logs and how to reach us.
- [Site map](https://medicalrecordchronology.com/site-map/): Every page of medicalrecordchronology.com on 1 screen, grouped by what you came to do, with word counts and the date each page was last updated.