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Louisville, Kentucky, United States 10,000 - 25,000 employees Healthcare industry Private company Not Specified Paid The central role of the Medical Scribe is to relieve the physician of clerical or secretarial duties; thus allowing the physician to focus more directly on clinical care. The scribe is an unlicensed person and exclusively non-clinical.   They do not touch patients and do not engage in any type of patient care.   A scribe’s role is limited to documentation and efficiency management for the physician.  The scribe observes the physician during patient encounters and performs documentation on the physician’s behalf.   Under the direction of the physician, they enter information into the patient’s electronic or written chart.   All documentation is reviewed and edited by the physician.  It is signed with an attestation by the provider that the scribed chart accurately reflects all work, treatment, procedures, and medical decision making performed by them.   Scribes function as the physician’s personal secretary and requires access to electronic databases that is similar to the access granted to the physicians themselves.  Within the framework of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system the scribe needs the functionality to find old records and results.  At the physician’s request, the scribe must be able to locate past medical records, prior lab/radiology results, or past visit histories for the physician to review.  Additionally, within the EMR itself the scribe needs the ability to enter data into the chart on the physician’s behalf.  All scribe-entered data is reviewed and authenticated by the physician.   DURATION

Permanent

JOB FUNCTIONS Healthcare Services SCRIBEAMERICA

ScribeAmerica is the largest international Medical Scribe company in the Healthcare industry; we are the nation's most frequently used and largest professional scribe training and management company, present in over 2,500 healthcare facilities, in 50 states and employing more than 15,000 scribes. We have successfully completed medical scribe programs across a wide spectrum of local environments; rural hospitals, urban hospitals, teaching facilities, private practices, and highly political organizations. These successes provide us with expertise that is unparalleled in the industry. Our medical scribes have been able to prove time and time again that they can master any electronic medical record system, while dramatically increasing physician productivity. We've even successfully pioneered the concept of using scribes to mitigate the decrease in efficiency during EHR implementation- the nation's first!

 

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