Interesting opinion piece in Stat News on the burden that electronic health records (EHRs) inflict on providers and care teams, reducing the time they have available for interacting with patients. A possible solution put forth is for the introduction of medical scribes – trained professionals who would interact with the EHR thus freeing up the provider to have greater interaction with their patients.
Read more: https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/27/electronic-health-records-add-scribes/