As of 2014, there were 10,000 scribes working in the United States. Generally scribes are unlicensed individuals hired to enter clinical data into the electronic health record under the direction of the doctor. Many in the medical community fear that the proliferation of scribes will actually undermine patient health care.
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Medical Scribe Growth Worries Some
The massive electronic health record adoption has caused a rapid rise in the number of medical scribes. So reports Healthcare IT News.
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