Hospitalist Scribes

An Enhancement To Inpatient Care.

Scribe services have proven to be effective in improving productivity, accuracy and provider satisfaction among Hospitalist Physicians.

While many hospitals have long used Scribes in emergency medicine, more and more are seeing the value of Scribes for inpatient settings, particularly intensive care.

While inpatient documentation is very different than what’s required in an ED, properly trained Scribes from Mountain View Scribe Services have reduced workloads for Intensive Care physicians, by providing highly detailed documentation that is tailored to the systems and information flow typically used in ICUs.

Scribes in the ICU setting are trained to focus on SOAP notes, progress notes, and discharge summaries.

Since patient care in an ICU setting may continue for days or weeks, a dedicated charting specialist like a Scribe can pay attention to small details and day-to-day changes so that care can be properly managed by physicians creating plans of care for patients over a long period.

Scribes help Hospitalists in several ways:

They can create partial notes before rounds, saving time and allowing doctors to concentrate more on patients. (Research indicates Hospitalists can spend as much as 20% of their time on documentation.)
They become more efficient over time, reducing the amount of time needed for records review and approval. Because hospitalist Scribes have chosen internal medicine as their own Scribe sub-specialty, they are more attuned to small details in patient charts and can keep track of a patient’s plan of care over multiple days and physicians.
They help the entire care team become more consistent in their communications, which also improves efficiency and helps make sure all key information gets recorded.

Hospitalist based internal medicine requires focus and persistence to care for patients over a longer-than-usual hospital stay. Scribes who choose this sub-specialty are typically curious about the long-term effects of medicine and want to see the progression of patients from the emergency department. They are motivated by their interest in this aspect of medicine and regard this aspect as a key training component for their future professional careers.

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