The technology is freeing up physicians from taking notes and entering information into EHRs during visits while also enabling the scribes to deliver patient data back to the physician during the visit.
“I had a hard time with the typing in the room,” Manju Hapke, MD, a CHIHealthCenter physician, told ABC’s KETV. “For me, if I don’t look at a patient’s face, I would miss a lot of emotions. Now I don’t even have to turn the computer on in the room. All I say is, ‘Jade give me the information I need’ and she just puts it up there.”
The hospital plans to add 10 additional physicians to the program every three months.
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