This increase has some in the medical community concerned about patient risk. A new viewpoint published in the Journal of the American Medical Association concludes that using scribes as a work-around for a suboptimal electronic health record will only lead to a further decline in electronic health record technology.
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Scribes May Cause a Decline in Medical Record Technology
Scribes, a trained medical information manager that works alongside the doctor to enter the patient information into the electronic health record, are growing in popularity among physicians. So reports Fierce EMR.
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