“The idea we’d spend more money, add steps/inefficiencies and introduce new potential for errors (opposite of electronic health-record goals) via scribes or “audios to transcribers” sets the industry back almost 40 years when physicians first used computerized physician-order entry successfully and happily—and we’re touting scribes and audio to “ease” the transition”? When will physicians take over from these scribes?
CPOE is not “back-end documentation” or a “clerical” process for requisition generation. CPOE is an upfront clinical transaction—part of human “interaction” with a patient—a tool enabling optimal decisions via access to EHR and medical knowledge bases. If stethoscopes were hard to use, would some suggest a second party listen and report sounds back to the physician?”
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Ann Farrell, Modern Healthcare, 18 February 2010
