E SQUARE Physician Scribe^® Testimonials

“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."  

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.”

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.”

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."

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