medical scribe

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Notes

healthcare team members sit in on medical visits & do all the typing & clicking while physicians concentrate on other tasks^[1]
nurses or medical assistants used as medical scribes^[1]
patients & physicians both reported reasonable satisfaction in one study^[1]
best solution to problems incurred by our current EMRs might not be a scribe, but developing better software^[1]
a good EMR should enable rather than obstruct integrating all available data regarding a patient's health into a coherent whole^[1]
medical scribes can reduce clinician time using electronic health records & improve job satisfaction^[2]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Zuger A A Positive View of Medical Scribes NEJM Journal Watch. Sept 22, 2016 Massachusetts Medical Society (subscription needed) http://www.jwatch.org
Yan C, Rose S, Rothberg MB et al. Physician, scribe, and patient perspectives on clinical scribes in primary care. J Gen Intern Med 2016 Sep; 31:990. <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27130622 <Internet> http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11606-016-3719-x
Schiff GD, Zucker L. Medical scribes: Salvation for primary care or workaround for poor EMR usability? J Gen Intern Med 2016 Sep; 31:979 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27412424 <Internet> http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11606-016-3788-x
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Mishra P, Kiang JC, Grant RW. Association of Medical Scribes in Primary Care With Physician Workflow and Patient Experience. JAMA Intern Med. Published online September 17, 2018. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30242380 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2701617
Bates DW, Landman AB Use of Medical Scribes to Reduce Documentation Burden. Are They Where We Need to Go With Clinical Documentation? JAMA Intern Med. Published online September 17, 2018 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30242315 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2701615