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Table 2 Opportunities for medical scribes

From: The future of medical scribes documenting in the electronic health record: results of an expert consensus conference

Opportunities for the medical scribe industry

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