Primary care physicians have been observed spending nearly 2 hours on EHR tasks per hour of direct patient care, underscoring how documentation burdens drive bu ...

Podiatrist Dr. Mark Lewis greets his first patient of the morning in his suburban Seattle exam room and points to a tiny video camera mounted on the right rim of his glasses. “This is my scribe, ...

By understanding the benefits and challenges of AI medical scribes, providers can better work toward creating an inclusive, ...

Many medical visits are narrative, fast-moving, and detail-heavy. In a single encounter, clinicians may need to capture: The ...

Electronic medical records (EMRs) have been a tremendous benefit in exam rooms across the country, creating secure patient history databases that clinicians can easily access and update. Yet, they can ...

An artificial intelligence-based virtual scribe showed promise as a documentation tool but still required work to verify information and make corrections for accuracy, according to a study by ...

"Medical scribes" transcribe information during clinical visits in real time into electronic health records (EHRs) under physician supervision. That frees physicians to focus on the patient. Many ...

Are scribes really worth it? It’s a question that has likely come up for many a hospital administrator. Now a study gauging the cost/benefit ratio of medical scribes has been completed. The landmark ...

Dr. Alan J. Bank misses the larger point of the issue of using a medical scribe ("In Praise of Medical Scribes," op-ed, April 7): The reason it is necessary in the first place is a regulatory and ...

As the pandemic led patients to shun clinics and hospitals, many scribes were laid off or furloughed. Many have returned, but scribes are increasingly working online — even from the other side of the ...