Alternatives to Doctors as Data Trolls?

I want to provide a link to the writings of a couple of thought leaders I respect, Joe Conn at Mondern Healthcare and Lyle Berkowitz, M.D - http://drlyle.blogspot.com/2010/02/scribes-may-be-answer-to-emr-adoption.html


The cat is out of the bag, so to speak, about a potentially revolutionary approach that has been in development for the past 3 years. The remote scribing approach has almost no similarity to the convention approach to using traditional scribes or medical transcription in any fashion. It is all about clinicians being empowered to be able to work smarter, rather than harder. I have not meet a clinician yet that would not embrace a solution if it allowed them to increase the quality of care delivered especially if it involved less time, effort, and expense than what they are doing now. The unique combination of technology and practice redesign via real, not artificial intelligence, is finally solving many of the challenges I see in the EMR industry. More to come, but only when it is ready.

BTW, I see a new role, soon, for many medical transcriptionists who have reasons to see the current methods of implementation of SOAPware as Scary software.