A Medical Scribe is a most revolutionary role in today’s modern healthcare industry. Traditionally, what do physicians do is to focus completely on direct patient contact and help them to recover at the earliest.
However, with the advent of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) physicians are occupied with the overload of documentation and clerical responsibilities which significantly pulls down physicians away from actual patient care. To relieve from the documentation overload, physicians across the various country are advancing in to new Remote Medical Scribe Services.
A virtual Medical Scribe or Medical Scribing Specialist can be anywhere in the world and they are very well connected to his/her physician or doctor via new innovative cutting-edge technology that provides access to the doctor’s office. They are also called Remote Medical Scribe Services. This innovative and advanced technology allows the virtual Medical Scribe Specialist to completely shadow the physician and create medical documents in real time directly into the EH-R / Electronic Health Record after reviewing the same with the physician.
A virtual Medical Scribe is otherwise popularly known as a physician assistant; performing all types of documentation in the EHR, gathering basic information for the patient’s visit, symptoms and recording the physical examination results and so on…
What is the Significant Role of Medical Scribes?
A Remote Medical Scribe Services prime purpose/responsibility is to relieve the physician’s burden and improve the overall flow of patients in the department.
With the advancement of new technology, The A virtual Medical Scribe can access live doctor-patient interactions from a remote location and accurately document the interactions and decision-making in a manner that results in accurate medical charting.
Virtual Medical Scribes are not supposed to participate in any patient health care and should strictly root all the requests related to patient care to the responsible physician or nursing staff in the department but they can extend the limits in, transporting specimens, answering phones, assisting patients, calling physicians, etc