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Emergency Medicine Resident Graduate, Ken Grosz, Featured in Fargo Monthly!

Emergency Medicine Resident Graduate, Ken Grosz, Featured in Fargo Monthly!

Mar 30, 2015

As doctors go paperless, more turn to medical scribes for help

Physician frustration with electronic health records has prompted a boom in a profession called “medical scribing.”

Medical scribes generally sit in the exam room and type into the patient’s electronic chart as the doctor and patient talk. The number of doctors using scribes in the Midwest and across the nation is fairly small but growing fast. Scribes can help doctors see more patients, and patients don’t have to wait so long for appointments. Scribes also can reduce the amount of time tacked onto the end of a doctor’s day while he punches information into the computer system.

Mar 2, 2015