Medical Scribes
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In Praise of Medical Scribes
We often think that a complex problem (such as health care in the U.S.) requires a complex solution (ObamaCare). Yet some important issues that are not adequately addressed with the current health-care overhaul include decreased patient and physician satisfaction, reduced access to care, and the increasing cost of care. For instance, the electronic medical record-keeping that has been mandated as part of new health-care policy has complicated the lives of many physicians and led to substantial physician dissatisfaction.
Yet there are many new opportunities if we are willing to be creative. While almost every physician I know works hard, many don't work very smart. Physicians are…
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Medical scribes let the doctor focus on you
Scribes are members of the healthcare delivery team, and are therefore accountable to all applicable institutional policies and are expected to act professionally. For example, scribes are held to the same standards to protect patient privacy as other health care professionals.
How Tech Has Undermined—and May Now Save—the Doctor-Patient Relationship
The physician’s note has become an unlikely battleground for the soul of medicine. Once a narrative of the patient’s clinical symptoms, the note has been transformed into a bloodless and bureaucratic box-checking exercise whose goal is often to maximize reimbursement and provide a highly flawed window into “quality of care.”
An old-school fix to doctors' tech woes: Medical scribes
Medical scribes are a viable remedy to doctors’ tech headaches—ironic for a job title reminiscent of feather pens and parchment paper—and they are in great demand.
Do Doctors Need EHR 'Scribes'?
Is the electronic health record falling short of its promise and contributing to physician burnout because it saddles doctors with ever-increasing administrative tasks?
Doctors hiring scribes because of electronic medical records
Of course, many EMR vendors are delighted with this trend, because it gets them off the hook for creating clumsy and time-sucking software.
Medical Scribes Are More of a Symptom Than a Solution
The quality of my work was no different with or without my expensive electronic medical record (EMR) system or my scribe, for that matter.
Medical scribes lack consensus on training, certification
Certification of medical scribes does not satisfy concerns about whether scribes should be allowed to use computerized order entry as part of the meaningful-use program for electronic health records, the federal government says. Meanwhile, the growing medical scribe industry has yet to come together on a single broadly accepted training and certification process, though industry leaders say they will eventually do so.
Medical scribes reduce hospital wait time, study shows
A new study from the University of Colorado Denver finds that medical scribes, or specialists who prepare patient medical charts, significantly decrease physician overtime and patient wait time in emergency room settings.
The disturbing confessions of a medical scribe
Sounds great, right? The winning combination of EMRs and scribes. The road to increased efficiency, increased Press-Ganey scores, increased billing accuracy, increased fraud, increased profits for the administration. Happiness abounds. How many of you missed the “increased fraud”?
The pay is low, the typing nonstop, but the medical scribe business is booming
As the doctor rushed through the emergency room, Warren Lam stuck beside her, typing what she said for eight hours for minimal pay. In exchange, he got a rare, behind-the-curtain view of a job he aims to have one day.
The Unregulated Rise of the Medical Scribe
Demand for note-keepers in doctors’ offices is booming, but standards and training haven’t caught up.
Use of Medical Scribes Improved Physician Satisfaction, Charting, Study Finds
A randomized controlled trial of medical scribes found that scribes product significant improvements in overall physician satisfaction and charting efficiency, without detracting from patient satisfaction, according to the study published in the Annals of Family Medicine.
Using Medical Scribes in a Physician Practice
The time providers spend during a patient visit capturing and entering data rather than focusing on the patient can be a hindrance to the quality of care. One current solution gaining popularity is the use of scribes. Scribes can provide many benefits to the practice of medicine, ultimately impacting the overall quality of healthcare delivery.
In Praise of Medical Scribes
An old-fashion remedy for the ills of electronic record-keeping.
American College of Medical Scribe Specialists
The American College of Medical Scribe Specialists (ACMSS) is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization devoted to advancing the education, proficiency and professional standing of medical scribes, enabling both education-to-certification and employment-to-certification pathways. We are the only governing body charged with upholding the standards of excellence for certification, accreditation, training, and evaluation.
Clinical Scribes
Clinical Scribes LLC is a regional company that hires, trains, and manages reliable and highly trained medical scribes for physicians in clinics, urgent cares, emergency departments and hospitals. Our mission is to improve the lifestyle of healthcare providers by reducing the time spent in medical documentation.
Precision Scribes
We’ve made it our mission to build a better medical scribe company and make the modern medical team work better. Physicians waste too much time on non-medical tasks. We think you should let doctors be doctors.
Scribe Solutions
Scribe Solutions offers emergency department medical scribes to allow the ER physician to spend less time on clerical duties and more time caring for patients. Our clinical information managers (scribes) provide specific emergency department services to aid doctors in documentation and minimize their clerical duties.
ScribeAmerica
We offer "full turn key" professional medical scribe programs for our clients. We will recruit, hire, train, manage, monitor and deliver a medical scribe program that is of the highest quality and un-parallel to any other in the industry.
ScribeMD
ScribeMD is a company that works to establish and manage Scribe programs for emergency departments.
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