Blog: ’The disturbing confessions of a medical scribe’

“Scribes are purported to decrease physician burnout considerably and increase ED efficiency. Better documentation also leads to better billing, so hospitals make more money,” wrote an anonymous poster at KevinMD earlier this week, in an entry titled “The disturbing confessions of a medical scribe.” “The physicians I work with, in a hospital [that] has been using scribes for over three years now, have all been grateful for the program. Sounds great, right? The winning combination of EMRs and scribes. The road to increased efficiency, increased Press-Ganey scores, increased billing accuracy, increased fraud, increased profits for the administration. Happiness abounds.

“How many of you missed the ‘increased fraud’?”

Source: KevinMD