When EHR came into medical practice, many dreamt that the implementation would highly improve the workflow procedures providing better and easy access to data. But, that doesn’t happen as planned in the healthcare industry.

Adversely, EHRs and adopted computerized automation systems added burden to the documentation apart from the patient diagnosis, which highly consumed physician’s work timings.

Thus, to reduce the clerical workload and inconvenience that makes physicians to sit front of their desktop screen entering data, physicians’ choice out to opt for virtual physician scribes.

Simply, Virtual Medical Scribe Service is a non-clinical professional who operates at the direction of the practitioners’ voice, documenting detailed notes of a patient’s clinical diagnosis into the EHR in real-time. Basically, the Physicians Virtual Medical Scribes are called “human Dictaphone” who feeds details of patients during the visit.

What does a remote medical scribe do?

Rarely, scribes are hired and trained for the required purpose. In terms of getting accord with virtual scribe salary and working space, several providers hire scribes from virtual scribing companies such as Scribe America that provide offsite scribes to carry out affordable Scribe transcription services to patient encounter through a HIPAA compliant platform.

And as with any clinical notes, the physician must check and review it once the virtual physician scribe's work for accuracy and completeness.

Benefits of hiring Remote Medical Scribe Services

  • Reduced physician burnout
  • Increased physician and patient satisfaction
  • Improved physician efficiency and more time for medical decision-making
  • Improved documentation and charge capture
  • Increased physician productivity
  • Secure and same-day completion of patient charts
  • Highest level of Completeness, accuracy, and efficiency

About Cresceremed

Every practice is different. Cresceremed understands the importance of medical scribes and implementations that get integrated into the workflow of the medical procedures. Thus, we strive to make access to our premier Virtual Medical Service as simple to use as possible. 

 

 

Source: http://www.cresceremed.com/virtual-medical-scribe