“Scribes.
The word might conjure up images of ancient, white-bearded men, bent over papyrus scrolls, scratching away with quill pens.
And the profession has to be older than Methuselah, since what we know of Noah’s 969-year-old grandfather was written down by succeeding generations of scribes.
Today, however, organizations seeking to implement the latest wrinkle in medical record-keeping, electronic health-record systems, are looking to new generations of scribes—to increase physician productivity and to overcome the pitfalls of the still typically clunky physician/EHR interface, and to ease the strain of EHR implementations and replacements.”
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Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare, 8 February 2010
