EMR is an integral part of today’s healthcare system. It helps in recording patient data, which comes in use for future medical purposes. But although EMR usage is essential, it is not user-friendly.
Doctors who are more focused on managing and treating their patients have difficulties in handling such devices. The EMR machine has complexities that many health experts have to unfold yet.
The answer to the problem-
EMR usage is not only restricted to doctors. Medical scribes who hold an important position in the medical sector are well equipped to handle such complex devices.
EMR should be managed with a lot of care and caution as this holds the patient’s data. If the input information is incorrect, itleads to a medical error which in dire conditions may also result in patient’s death.
To avoid such trivialities, scribes are hired who are experts in this field. They handle the data with utmost care and save it in the EMR device. Correct information extraction requires skill and expertise. Scribes are specially trained to reach this level so that they not only reduce the burden of doctors by sharing their documentation work but also engage themselves in intricate details with accuracy.
Scribes undergo an extensive training period where they become well acquainted with the working of the EMR, the correct way of abstracting crucial information from the conversation of the patient and the provider, jotting down a concise, crisp note, and thus, bringing harmony to the entire system alike.