AI medical records summary
A summary is only worth reading if you can check it.
The traditional route is to hand the file to a reviewer, wait three to five days, pay by page count, and hope nothing was missed on page 2,847. Superinsight reads every page with the same attention and returns a structured summary in about an hour, with each line quoted from the chart and cited to the page it came from.
By Nelson Chu · Published May 29, 2026 · Updated September 2026
Objective finding on imaging
“MRI lumbar spine: disc extrusion at L5-S1 with nerve root contact.”
Ex. 4, p. 612Functional limitation documented
“Unable to sit longer than 20 minutes without position change.”
Ex. 7, p. 1,204Providers disagree on work capacity
Treating physician and consultative examiner reach opposite conclusions six weeks apart.
Treatment escalated
“Conservative care exhausted; surgical consultation recommended.”
Ex. 9, p. 2,180Illustrative example. The records shown are not from a real case.
What is inside
Structured for legal work, not a wall of prose
One chronological treatment history
Every visit, emergency department trip, surgery, and lab result in date order. A case with twelve providers becomes one timeline instead of twelve stacks of paper in twelve different formats.
Findings ranked by what matters
There's no benefit in listing every blood pressure reading. Let us help you focus on the things that actually matter: diagnoses, functional limitations, treatment changes, specialist referrals, and physician opinions on prognosis.
Gaps and contradictions
Treatment gaps opposing counsel will cite, providers who contradict each other, and records named in the chart that never arrived. These are what a fatigued reviewer misses at page 1,500.
Page-level citations on every line
Each finding points at the exact page in the original records. Pull it up mid-hearing, verify it before a deposition, cite it in a brief. Never “somewhere in the file.”
In practice
How attorneys actually use the summary
As input to a draft
Diane Haar
Hawaii Disability Legal Services
Fifteen-plus years of SSD and VA practice across Guam, the Philippines, and Hawaii, paperless from day one. Her workflow runs in two steps: the AI produces a structured medical summary, and she feeds that into her own drafting prompts for pre-hearing memos and briefs.
She first tried one prompt that would read the raw records and produce the legal document in a single pass, but the results were inconsistent. Instead, she split her prompt so that it would produce a summary first and a draft second, making it far more reliable. In her words: “I'm so glad that there are things like Superinsight, because it would take an awful long time to write the prompts to do the things that you guys are doing with the data.” Listen to the episode →
As hours back on a heavy file
Christopher Pozios, Nationwide Disability Law
Twenty years in Social Security practice, running lean and remote. He estimates the summary saves six to seven hours of labor on a heavy file. In SSD, where records routinely run two to three thousand pages, those hours decide whether the case is worth handling at all.
His approach: upload, get the structured summary back in about an hour, and start hearing prep from there. The summary tells him what is in the file, so his judgment goes to the sections that matter instead of to reading linearly and hoping to spot them. Listen to the episode →
By case type
The same records, read for different things
The output is not a generic document summary. What surfaces first depends on what your matter has to prove.
Social Security Disability
Organized around residual functional capacity, Blue Book listing criteria, treatment compliance, and physician opinions on function. Flags the gaps ALJs cite most often in denials. SSD details →
Personal injury
Traces causation from incident through treatment, separates pre-existing conditions, and documents treatment duration and cost for damages. Personal injury details →
VA disability
Surfaces in-service events, continuity of symptoms, and the evidence a nexus opinion rests on, across military and civilian records. Reads handwritten service treatment records from any era. Veteran disability details →
Workers' compensation
Tracks mechanism of injury, progress toward maximum medical improvement, work restrictions, and impairment findings for return-to-work arguments. Workers' comp details →
Security and compliance
No outside reviewer ever reads the file.
- HIPAA compliant — Business Associate Agreement countersigned before your first upload
- ISO 42001 certified — the international standard for responsible AI management
- SOC 2 — independently audited controls for security, availability, and confidentiality
- An AI first pass verified by your own attorneys, not routed to outside human reviewers
Model Rule 1.6(c) obliges your firm to vet its vendors, and Rule 1.1 extends the duty of competence to technology. The audit reports and subprocessor list are available during onboarding.
Common questions
- How accurate is an AI summary compared to a human reviewer?
- They have different strengths. The AI gives page 2,000 the same attention as page 2, which a tired reviewer cannot. A clinician brings interpretation and catches nuance in ambiguous language. Firms treat the summary as a first pass and apply their own judgment to it, which is what the page citations are for. D.K. Shillingford's team back-tested against closed files with known outcomes before trusting it on active matters.
- Can I ask the AI to focus on specific findings?
- Yes, in plain English. Ask it to focus on orthopedic findings after March 2024, or to show every medication change related to pain management, and the relevant sections regenerate. Revisions are unlimited.
- What file formats does it accept?
- PDFs, scanned documents, faxes, and images. OCR handles typed text, handwritten notes, and poor-quality scans. Paul Bunn's team specifically pointed to reading handwritten military cursive out of decades-old service treatment records.
- How long does a summary take?
- About an hour for a full file, whatever its size. Once the chronology exists, new records fold into it in minutes rather than triggering a fresh review.
- What does a summary cost?
- Nothing to evaluate a case, with no limit on the number of cases or the pages in each one. A monthly plan starts at $250 when you decide to go further on a file.
- Does it replace my paralegal or nurse reviewer?
- It replaces the reading, not the judgment. The summary is a first pass that your team verifies against the citations. Firms that adopt it tend to move staff off page-by-page review and onto work that needs a person.
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