Opportunities for the medical scribe industry | ||
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Type of opportunity | Summarization | Example |
Allow scribes to document more | Having scribes be able to do more documentation, including updating note templates and collecting data more discreetly | Teaching providers how to improve documentation |
Informatician role | Have scribes have more of an information management role | Scribes could do order entry and medication reconciliation |
Extend role to include workflow analysis | Scribes work very closely with the providers and could provide insight for the organization on how providers could write more efficient notes | Having scribes team up with workflow specialists to help providers figure out a way to write a better note |
Improving clinical team cohesion | Some mentioned it would be great if the scribe could be more a part of the health care team as a whole | Having the scribes being able to assist patients on/off the bed, handing the patient the AVS, showing the patient out of room |
Other models of scribing | Using other models of scribing would move things away from the pre-professional model but could create longer lasting scribing roles | Using MAs/RNs/LPNs or telescribing model |