“Emergency
Physicians who use a medical scribe will never want to practice without one
again. Having a medical scribe is like having a documentation assistant, a
personal secretary and an executive assistant all combined into one. A
scribe enables me to focus on treating patients and customer service-not on
paperwork”
- Ronald Kurzejka,
MD
- Medical Director
- Provena St. Mary’s
Hospital, Kankakee IL
"It's unbelievable how using a scribe can change
your work environment. I have gone from doing paperwork 50% of the time to
being able to just see patients. I can spend the time I need with patients
and don't have to rush from bed to bed.
Scribes take over almost all of the administrative, organizational, and
clerical duties leaving the physician with just the clinical aspects of
patient care. This is what being a physician should be centered on. If given
the choice of doubling physician coverage or giving up my scribe, I would
choose the scribe.
I was skeptical when I first heard about the scribe program and convinced I
could see patients faster without them but I gave it a chance. I was
completely wrong. Not only do I see patients faster but I get to spend more
time with them so they are more satisfied with their care."
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Stephen Pool, MD
-
Emergency Medicine Physician
“At Illini we have seen significant improvements in the documentation and
coding of the ED charts. Since implementing the improved E SQUARE Template®and the E SQUARE Physician Scribe
Program®
we have seen a 0.5-0.6 level increase in our E&M skews. The hospital's
technical component has followed suit by increasing an average of $ 135.00
per chart during the first 3 months of implementation.
The scribes have allowed us to cut physician double coverage by 2 hours
every day of the week. Early call-in of the double coverage physicians has
effectively been eliminated. Primary coverage and double coverage overtime
hours have been significantly reduced.”
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Wayne Gallops, DO
-
Medical Director
-
Illini Medical Center, Silvis IL
“As an emergency nurse and former ED Director, I
have spent many years assisting physicians to organize their environment and
work flow. The addition of physician scribes shifts the burden of
non-clinical tasks off the nurse to the scribe. This results in nurses
focusing on patient care instead of clerical tasks.”
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Nancy B. Kiskaddon, RN
-
Director Program Development
"We
have been using Scribes at our site for approximately 11 months.
Although I was skeptical at the outset, my practice has changed dramatically
with the implementation of the scribe program. I am able to see up to
3 patients per hour comfortably and my charting is complete at the end of the
shift, something I was rarely able to do before, especially on a busy
shift. Not only is my charting completed, it is completed in MUCH more
depth now that I use a scribe. Phone calls, lab tests and re exams, which I
may have missed charting before, are all documented. Now the scribe
documents almost every minute I am in the room. My critical care cases have
increased dramatically- not because I am seeing more critical care, but
because the documentation is more complete.
The
scribes and their ability to document event times and completion times has
enabled us to collect better data from the charts. We can now look at
our throughput times more critically, which is a great benefit to me as a
director."
James Ellis, DO
Emergency Medicine Physician
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