 The US Hospital Emergency Medical System is struggling in its attempt to provide cost effective, quality care. Annual increases in ED census and documentation requirements have exposed the documenting inefficiencies of the conventional unassisted ED physician. The electronic medical record has exacerbated the ED physician's struggles resulting in decreasing financial reimbursments and increasing legal liabilities. ScribeAmerica's goal is to assist the ED physician by training scribes in how to intelligently share the provider's burden of data gathering and EMR documentation. In doing so, the physician's individual productivity and ED patient throughput increase, so that goal of providing cost effective, quality emergency medical care is achieved.
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