Medical scribbing is a new service blooming up in healthcare industry.

1. MEDICAL SCRIBBING BUSINESS
NAME: DR. RIMA RABINDRANATH DAS
SPECIALIZATION: HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT.

2. Outline
 Introduction to Medical Scribbing.
 WHAT IS PHR/ EMR/ EHR?
 Definitions (Understanding the importance of Scribbing).
 Skills of a Medical Scribe.
 Pricing for medical report Sribbing.
 Challenges in Medical Scribbing.
 Conclusion

3. OBJECTIVES
• Increasing doctors productivity by using scribbing.
• To generate additional revenue for physicians with
scribes.
• Improve clinical satisfaction, as well as patient-
clinician interactions.
Medical Scribe: A medical scribe
is a healthcare professional that
performs patient documentation and
clerical tasks on behalf of a
physician.

5. EMR
Electronic Medical Record (EMR): EMR is
specific to and controlled by a single
medical facility and can be accessed only
by the physician and staff of that medical
facility.
PHR
Personal Health Record (PHR): PMR is a type
of electronic record that contains the
health-related data and information
specific to a patient.
WHAT IS PHR/ EMR/ EHR
EHR
Electronic Health Record (EHR): EHR
instead can be shared among multiple
healthcare provider and multiple medical
facilities.

6. HIPAA
 HIPAA stands for The Health
Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996.
 An excerpt from the Hippocratic
Oath
 "All that may come to my
knowledge in the exercise of my
profession or in daily commerce
with men, which ought not to be
spread abroad, I will keep secret
and will never reveal.”
 In a sense, the above-mentioned
Hippocratic Oath is the basis of the
HIPAA.

7. Medical Scribbing Business.
The job of a medical scribes is to listen to the audio recording or
dictation of physicians and scribe them into report or document.
This report or document is the name of the electronic copy or hard
copy which results from the medical scribbing process and is record
of a physician's encounter with the patient.
A Medical Scribbing Company provides scribbing services to clinics or
hospitals. In older days most of clinics and hospitals employed in-
house scribbing to scribe the medical report, but with advancement
in technology the scribbing work started getting outsourced to
offsite medical scribbing companies nationally or internationally.

8. SKILLS OF MEDICAL SCRIBE
 In-depth knowledge of human anatomy and
physiology.
 Good knowledge of English spelling, idioms, and
phrases.
 Well-versed with operation of computer (especially
work processing software).
 Good eye, hand, and foot coordination.
 Sound knowledge of disease processes and medical
terminology.
 Sound knowledge of drugs and their side effects.

9. Regular telephone or mobile phone
Hand-held Dictaphone.
Microphone of the computer

10. PRICING FOR MEDICAL REPORT SCRIBBING:
Full-time equivalents (FTE): An FTE is the equivalent of one medical
transcriptionist who has been hired as a full-time employee and works full
time, that is, 8 hours per day and 5 days per week.
B. Per page pricing: This type of pricing offers to quote rate for one page.
This rate varies between $3 and $5 per page, though can differ in certain
special circumstances.
C. Per report pricing: This pricing option is a different version of per page
pricing. In per report pricing, as the name suggests, the price is quoted for
transcribing one report.

11. Major Systemic Challenges
Shortage of medical scribes
High cost of medical scribbing
Quality
Compensation

12. Advantages of medical scribbing
business:
Easy
processing
of
informatio
n
User
friendly
BRING
DOWN THE
COSTS.
Makes
storing
easy.
TIME
UTILIZATION
Faster

13. Conclusion
 Capture the complexities of medical
conditions and provide a comprehensive
report of specific patient situations
 Ensure accurate data entry, thereby ensuring
patient safety and reliability of the medical
record.
 Type out a full medical report or function as
editors to ensure accurate medical record
information in a speech recognition document
or verify EHR information.

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