EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
15-hour days. Full waiting rooms. Dozens of speedy patient consults. Emergency Department doctors face a slew of exhausting demands every day. Inputting documentation is among the most time consuming. And it's responsible for so much doctor burnout, studies have shown that physicians can spend up to 2 hours in documentation for every hour spent with patients.
Optimize Your ED with a Scribe Strategy.
Every Emergency Department is unique. Scribes you bring onto your team will adapt to the needs of the department. Your scribe team can be the size you want, work the shifts you need, and use your electronic medical record system. Scribes offset productivity losses stemming from the time consuming, click intensive nature of the EMR. With you in the trauma bay, scribes update the EMR in real time, so patients’ acute needs are the main focus, not a computer screen.
And for patients who treat the emergency room as a primary care facility, the improved efficiency with scribes help to right-size your care teams to reduce wait times and Left Without Being Seen (LWBS). Getting the population you serve the precision care they need and the unparalled support your care team deserves.
Benefits
Contact Business DevelopmentHow it Works
Our team, led by an emergency physician, conducts an analysis and provides the roadmap for a balanced ED with scribes.
ED scribes are available for around-the-clock coverage and are trained to:
- Document Triage Notes to the Highest Level of Specificity
- Request Provider Feedback for Chart Approval
- Assist with Comfort Rounding
- Work with Nursing Staff to Prepare Discharge Information
With a medical scribe embedded within the care team, you will reduce inefficient documentation and improve clinical data capture for accurate billing.
- Capture information at the point of care.
- Identify unique patients for specialized care.
Our process ensures scribes are ready for the non-stop ED environment.
- Step 1: Demanding classroom training
- Step 2: Training Shift with senior level scribes
- Step 3: Continuous and Regular Reassesment
The Advanced Scribe Training Program
Approximately 120 hours per scribe
Our reputation and industry-leading initiatives ensure ER facilities such as yours can always rely on us to deliver medical scribes with superior training and professionalism. Due to our unique business structure and internal efficiency, we can pass the savings on to you. We recruit the most talented and eager personnel with a passion for the job, and we teach them to document the ScribeAmerica way. Once enrolled in our training, they learn skills and practices that will ensure high quality charting and efficiency. With our medical scribes, your department will reap the benefits of improved throughput, more accurate documentation capture, and proven cost savings.
Case Studies
Provide Quality Care with Medical Scribes.
What Are a Hospital's Costs? Utah System Is Trying to Learn
Only in the world of medicine would Dr. Vivian Lee's question have seemed radical. She wanted to know: What do the goods and services provided by the hospital system where she is chief executive actually cost?
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Becker Hospital Review: Are Medical Scribes Worth the Investment?
Are scribes really worth it? It's a question that has likely come up for many a hospital administrator. Now a study gauging the cost/benefit ratio of medical scribes has been completed.
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Epic EHR, Going Live with and without Medical Scribes
Much of the talk in the EHR industry centers on the on the giant Epic EHR and their impressive portfolio. I personally spent four years documenting on Epic and can say it has some impressive components to it, however, in my opinion it was not built for the fast paced ED physician. When approaching new clients, we commonly warn C level executives about the potential productivity losses they will soon face with a un assisted rollout.
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Physicians Perception of Scribe Impact on Metrics and Quality of Life
Emergency departments have been adopting scribe programs as an action plan for improving physician productivity. The click-intensive nature of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) combined with increasing requirements of what needs to be documented have impeded operational efficiencies and escalated awareness of the genuine high cost of unassisted EMR.
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Can Scribes Help Improve Emergency Practice Productivity?
Scribes appear throughout ancient history as "record keepers" who copy legal texts and other documents. Three thousand years later, modern scribes follow healthcare providers to document services rendered, and have taken on additional roles such as tracking down test results and medication orders, taking patients histories and generally acting as an assistant to the provider.
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Impact of Scribes on Performance Indicators in the Emergency Department
The objective was to quantify the effect of scribes on three measures of emergency physician (EP) productivity in an adult emergency department (ED).
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Bukata Abstracts in EM – OPTIMIZING PHYSICIAN TIME
The Executive Medical Committee of a hospital I am familiar with was meeting last year and, in preparation for a Joint Commission survey, wanted to formalize who can make entries into a patient’s chart. After the usual recommendations of physician assistants (PA) and nurse practitioners (NPs) it was thought that the discussion was over until someone at the table mentioned “scribes.” Scribes?! No one at the meeting had ever heard of such a thing.
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Good Governance Case Study
ER Scribes Bring Quality to EHR Program
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Florida Hospital Abstract
Emergency Departments (ED) across the nation face the challenging task of dealing with an increase in population. This situation brings multiple problems like overcrowding and long waiting times. One solution that has been proposed is the use of a Scribe Program to help decrease the load. The goal of this study is to investigate the impact of the Scribe Program in the productivity of the Emergency Physician.
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