Medical chronology software
What a medical chronology is, and how Chartely builds one
A medical chronology is a dated, page-cited timeline of every clinically significant event in a set of medical records. Chartely builds one from a case record set in minutes.
Who uses it
Built for injury practice, and the agents working alongside it
- Personal injury and med-mal attorneys and paralegals building a demand letter or prepping for deposition.
- Workers' compensation practices separating work-related treatment from unrelated history.
- Disability representatives building the objective-findings record for an ALJ hearing.
- Legal-AI agents that need a page-cited read of a record set as a tool call, not a guess.
Mechanism
How Chartely builds a chronology
Five deterministic steps from an uploaded PDF to a cited, gap-checked timeline.
- 1
Text extraction
Every uploaded page, digital or scanned, is read and its text extracted, preserving page numbers for citation.
- 2
Event extraction
Each clinically significant event is identified with a date, provider, facility, event type, plain-English summary, and a citation to the page it came from.
- 3
Normalization
Dates are normalized to a consistent format where the source allows it, and events are sorted chronologically across every provider in the file.
- 4
Gap detection
Pure date-math over the sorted timeline flags any gap of 45+ days between consecutive dated events, no model guesswork.
- 5
Narrative draft
A plain-language summary of the course of care is drafted from the cited event list, ready for a demand letter or case review.
Compare
Chartely vs. an outsourced chronology service
| Feature | Chartely | Outsourced service |
|---|---|---|
| Turnaround | Minutes | 5-10 business days |
| Price | Included pages, then $0.06/page | Typically $1.50-$4.00/page |
| Revisions | Re-run instantly, as many times as needed | Resubmit and wait through another turnaround cycle |
| Page citations | Every event, every time | Varies by vendor |
| Data handling | Processed in memory, never stored | Varies by vendor, ask before sending records |
| API / agent access | REST API + MCP server included on paid plans | Not typically offered |
By case type
Medical chronologies for every practice area
Personal injury
Medical chronology for personal injury cases
Medical malpractice
Medical chronology for medical malpractice cases
Workers' compensation
Medical chronology for workers' compensation cases
Mass tort
Medical chronology for mass tort cases
Social Security disability
Medical chronology for social security disability cases
Wrongful death
Medical chronology for wrongful death cases
Nursing home abuse & neglect
Medical chronology for nursing home abuse & neglect cases
Product liability
Medical chronology for product liability cases
By record type
Built to parse every kind of record in the file
ER records
How a chronology handles er records
Imaging reports
How a chronology handles imaging reports
Operative reports
How a chronology handles operative reports
Physical therapy notes
How a chronology handles physical therapy notes
Office visit notes
How a chronology handles office visit notes
IME reports
How a chronology handles ime reports
FAQ
Common questions
What is a medical chronology?
A dated, page-cited timeline of every clinically significant event in a medical record file, visits, imaging, procedures, medications and work-status notes, built so every claim can be traced back to its source page.
How accurate is an AI-built chronology?
Every event carries a confidence score and a page citation, so accuracy is verifiable rather than assumed. Low-confidence pages are flagged for review instead of silently guessed at.
Is my data stored?
Chartely organizes the medical records you provide. It is not legal or medical advice, and automated extraction can misread poor-quality scans. Review the chronology before you rely on it. Every event links to its source page, so review takes minutes, not days.
How is this different from an outsourced chronology service?
The underlying work is similar, read every page, extract events, order them, but Chartely does it in minutes instead of business days, at a fraction of typical per-page service pricing, and lets you re-run it as often as the case needs.
Can AI legal agents use Chartely?
Yes, the same engine is a REST API and a hosted MCP server, so an agent can build a chronology as part of an automated workflow. See /developers.
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