By Haley Holmes
Aug 17, 2023
A cardiology scribe is a valuable addition to any cardiology practice looking to enhance the quality and efficiency of patient care. A cardiology scribe is a professional who specializes in assisting cardiologists and other healthcare providers in the cardiology department to document patient visits. They are specially trained and have knowledge of medical terms, symptoms, treatments, and procedures specific to their work. Having a cardiology scribe can save time while reducing EHR workload and improving clinical quality.
What experience does a Cardiology scribe need?
A cardiology medical scribe should have a high school diploma, although additional education or training is preferred. A minimum of 2–3 years of experience in medical scribing is a mandatory requirement. Having a medical scribe certification, EHR training certification and specialty experience in EHR documentation can give you a competitive edge over other candidates.
The role of a Cardiology scribe
How Cardiology scribe can help improve your practice?
Cardiology scribes are one proposed way to not only reduce documentation burden but also improve physician productivity and practice’s bottom-line. Please don’t take our word for it. Consider the research. Research says that use of cardiology scribes can improve physician productivity by 10%. This improved physician productivity can lead to 84 additional new patients and 423 additional follow-up patients in a year. Cardiologists earned additional revenue of $24,257 by creating clinical notes with cleaner coding. The total additional revenue generated was $1,348,437 with the scribes costing roughly around $98,588. In short, using cardiology medical scribe to handle the growing EHR documentation requirements, enhances efficiency, boosts revenue, improves physician-patient interactions, and increases physician job satisfaction.
As a cardiologist your work can be pressurized and time-critical dealing with surgeries and emergency situations on a day-to-day basis. While already facing an insurmountable workload why take the stress of documenting the visit and updating the records? Leave it in the hands of Scribe4Me’s cardiology scribes.
Why Scribe4Me’s cardiology scribes
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Haley Holmes
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Documentation is an important daily clinical responsibility. In order to optimize patient care, physicians are always on the lookout for new ways to effectively and efficiently document patient visits.
The use of virtual medical scribes has become increasingly popular in the recent years, as medical practices across the country are on the constant lookout for ways to reduce clinical documentation overload, thereby improving overall productivity.
The clerical burden associated with EHR usage is attributed as the number one cause of physician burnout. We also know that physicians spend twice as much time on EHRs and other clerical tasks compared to the time providing patient care.