“A 12-month study from Kaiser Permanente Northern California found using medical scribes in primary care may reduce EHR burdens for clinicians, improve workflow and clinician-patient interactions, and increase job satisfaction. The study found 57% of patients said their clinician spent less time on the computer when a medical scribe was present, and 49.8% said their physician spent more time than usual interacting with their patients.”

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Doctors Wasting Over Two-Thirds of Their Time Doing Paperwork

“A recently published study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that for every hour physicians were seeing patients, they were spending nearly two additional hours on paperwork. Is this really the best use of doctors’ training and ability? Isn’t this like telling LeBron James to spend the majority of his time manning the Cleveland Cavaliers ticket windows and phone lines? And isn’t this also wasting the time of patients, who came for the doctor’s medical expertise, not paperwork expertise?”

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