NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Last time you went to the doctor, were you happy with the amount of time her or she spent with you? As CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez reported, a lack of time with the doctor is one of ...

Electronic medical records have spawned a new health care profession: medical scribe. Working alongside doctors, scribes enter information into a computer — their fingers furiously typing away so the ...

More and more physicians are employing medical scribes to decrease their clerical burden. • The amount of time it takes to train the scribe on the specific Electronic Medical Record(EMR) and physician ...

The number of U.S. medical scribes is growing, but lack of regulation or standardization when it comes to training these workers persists, according to a survey from The Doctors Company. The Doctors ...

A national campaign for electronic health records is driving business for at least 20 companies with thousands of workers ready to help stressed doctors log the details of their patients’ care — for a ...

How do scribes assist in alleviating these burdens? Dr. Murphy: Scribes assist in taking care of ancillary tasks and duties, core measures, coding, and meaningful use compliance. Obviously, scribes do ...

Physicians today spend about equal amounts of time seeing patients and completing computer tasks, a recent study published in Health Affairs revealed. The researchers analyzed data on doctors’ time ...

A national campaign for electronic health records is driving business for at least 20 companies with thousands of workers ready to help stressed doctors log the details of their patients’ care — for a ...

CUMBERLAND, Md. — Allegany College of Maryland will launch a medical scribe specialist program through its Medical Administrative Assistant Department. Prospective students are invited to enroll now ...

"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 ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- As health care becomes more data-driven, doctors and other practitioners find themselves increasingly burdened by requirements to document their every move. Medical scribes offer a ...