When DeAnn Champion, MD, began working with medical scribes at Chattanooga, Tenn.-based CHI Memorial Hospital, training for those positions was much different than it is today. Scribe training at the ...

A first stab at a national scribe-certification program has been attempted by the American College of Clinical Information Managers, based in Irvine, Calif., which has tested about 300 medical scribes ...

A medical scribe is a professional who specializes in documenting patient encounters in real time under the direction of a physician. As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, the role of ...

Connie Gaytan, 32, is a scribe for Dr. Ramnath, an orthopedic doctor at Baylor. There may be a future for an ancient profession. Scribes, who in times past worked on everything from translating ...

The American Healthcare Documentation Professionals Group, a healthcare documentation trainer and certifier, will now offer a gastroenterology program for certified medical scribe professionals. About ...

A national campaign for electronic health records is driving business for at least 20 companies with thousands of workers ready to help stressed doctors log the details of their patients’ care—for a ...

The number of U.S. medical scribes is growing, but lack of regulation or standardization when it comes to training these workers persists, according to a survey from The Doctors Company. The Doctors ...