Tag: medical assistants

How one doctor and his team overcame EHR issues and greater-than-three-month patient wait times as well as efficiency challenges: empty rooms and medical assistants waiting for their next assignment. 

Dr. Laurence Kinsella has some clever hacks to help you finish charting sooner without compromising patient care – and avoiding burnout in the process.

“If I have any choice in the matter, I will never go back,” says Colorado neurologist Pearce J. Korb, MD, about his use of medical scribes in clinical practice. “Now I walk in a room and I look at somebody face-to-face, patients and their families, and I talk to them. I have to admit as…

“Like some virulent bacteria doubling on the agar plate, the E.M.R. grows more gargantuan with each passing month, requiring ever more (and ever more arduous) documentation to feed the beast,” wrote Danielle Ofri, M.D., in this New York Times article. She is not alone in her concerns about the runaway paperwork problem faced by doctors…