Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

The Rise of Medical Scribes: A Fit for Urgent Care?

Urgent message: As urgent care operators look for ways to speed patient flow and raise visit revenue, medical scribes may be a solution for increasing provider efficiency and improving documentation accuracy. How this article helps you: provides information useful in deciding whether your center would benefit from hiring scribes. Introduction Urgent care is unique among health-care delivery models in its focus on providing quick turnaround. To get patients in and out of the center in …

Scribes in the Urgent Care

DAVID WEIN, MD, MBA, FACEP, and DENNIS DIXON, MD For years I was subjected to corporal punishment at the hands of nuns who used to beat me when they could not read my handwriting – at least that is how I remember it. For reasons unknown, my handwriting was never legible. Even back in the day, using the T-System’s “slash and check” charting, my medical records looked like I had either DTs or Benign Essential …