According to the American Health Information Management Association, a clinical scribe is a person who has a core responsibility to capture accurate and detailed documentation of doctor-patient encounters in a timely manner in EHRs. Medical scribes are a solution to this documentation burden and are a very important part of healthcare teams. This can result in increased physician stress and burnout. Although the implementation of EHRs seems to have many benefits such as improved documention quality, cost reduction, and enhanced patient safety, EHRs add demands to a physician’s time mainly by increasing clerical workload. Finally, we look at several virtual scribe companies providing remote medical scribing services.Įlectronic health records are widely used in hospitals and among office-based physicians. The benefits and challenges of using remote medical scribes are discussed as well. You will also learn the different types of virtual scribes. In this article you will learn what is a medical scribe and how telescribes differ from in-person physician scribes. A virtual medical scribe is also known as a telescribe, virtual scribe, or remote medical scribe. This workload has increased due to the implementation of electronic health records, which force doctors to spend much of their time typing on a computer during a patient’s visit. In-person scribes and virtual medical scribes reduce the physician’s workload. Virtual medical scribes are filling an important role in healthcare by documenting the physician-patient encounter remotely.
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