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Sabrina Rodak, Becker's Hospital Review
“Hospitals across the country are implementing electronic health records as they work towards meeting meaningful use requirements and receiving incentive payments. Physicians and other healthcare providers may need to alter their workflow as they transition from paper to electronic records. Physicians in the emergency department, however, may have more difficulty fitting EHRs in their workday due to the fast-paced environment.
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18 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Physicians, transcription
Health IT Junkie
“Physician groups and hospitals are hiring “drivers” to deal with the impact of EMRs on their practice of medicine. Unlike Daisy, who resisted a driver, physicians are willingly hiring scribes to input data into EMR systems. Some blame the perceived disconnect between provider and patient when an electronic system is introduced – the hypothesis is that patients feel the physician is paying attention to the computer rather than their needs.
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26 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Meaningful Use, transcription
Stacey Burling, The Inquirer
“The rise in electronic medical records has given Brittany Fera, a premed student at Temple University, an “awesome” job that she had no idea existed before she saw an ad last year.
It’s not the geeky programming kind of job you might guess.
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21 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): transcription
EMR Daily News
“The Clinical Documentation Industry Association, or the CDIA, has announced the launch of a new industry trade association dedicated to ensuring the accuracy, consistency and security of clinical documentation contained within all patient health records.
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23 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Documentation, emr, Narrative, transcription
Nancy Crotti, Star Tribune
“Paper medical charts have largely gone the way of nurses’ whites, and so have some jobs that old-fashioned health records used to require.
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17 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): emr, transcription, voice-recognition
Mike Koriwchak, KevinMD
“In 2003 our practice had a rare opportunity to build EMR functionality into the floor plan of our new office. I thought I had the perfect design for the EMR-based exam room.
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10 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): emr, Implementation, Speech Recognition, tablet PC, transcription
Andrew Van Dam, Covering Health
“St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Michele Munz has found that some emergency rooms are easing the transition to electronic medical records by hiring “scribes” to enter information into the system, thus freeing up the doctor to focus on the actual patient.
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8 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): emr, transcription
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“I’ve blogged a couple of times about medical scribes in the last couple of months in a tone more disapproving than not. I recently read a testimonial of a senior in college, who is planning to take his medical school admissions test next year.
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13 October 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): emr, Hospitals, transcription
The Medical News
“The proven ability of the medical transcription sector to deliver innovative, physician-friendly, and cost-effective solutions to the challenges of electronic health record (EHR) adoption will be the message taken to Capitol Hill by members of the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) and the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) for the organizations’ fifth-annual Advocacy Summit on March 24 in Washington, DC.
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26 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, transcription
Ann Farrell, Modern Healthcare
“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?
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20 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): CPOE, transcription
Nick van Terheyden, Accelerating Adoption of Healthcare IT
“For the Record magazine did an excellent front page cover story on the Health Story project “Telling the Full Story”.
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20 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Coding, Health Information Technology, Narrative, transcription
Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times
“The instant he hung up a few minutes later, a digitized recording raced through fiber-optic cables on the Pacific Ocean seabed and into a computer server on the 17th floor of a Manila office tower, where medical school graduate Dinah Barrete was working the graveyard shift.
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20 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): recorded data, transcription
