Scribes, EHRs, and Workflow Efficiencies in Allergy Practices

Implementing EHRs in community oncology practices.

WHITEC to provide technical resources for Wisconsin practices implementing EHRs.

Rounding with scribes: employing scribes in a pediatric inpatient setting.

Using scribes to document patient encounters for physicians offers both benefits and challenges. A pediatric hospital recounts its experience adding scribes to its inpatient rounding teams.

Workflow and Electronic Health Records in Small Medical Practices Workflow and Electronic Health Records in Small Medical Practices

This paper analyzes the workflow and implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems across different functions in small physician offices. We characterize the differences in the offices based on the levels of computerization in terms of workflow, sources of time delay, and barriers to using EHR systems to support the entire workflow. The study was based on a combination of questionnai...

The use of medical scribes in health care settings: a systematic review and future directions.

BACKGROUND Electronic health records (EHRs) hold promise to improve productivity, quality, and outcomes; however, using EHRs can be cumbersome, disruptive to workflow, and off-putting to patients and clinicians. One proposed solution to this problem is the use of medical scribes. The purpose of this systematic review is to summarize the literature investigating the effect of medical scribes on ...