Doctor-patient relationship

OpenNotes – The Way Forward in Improving Medical Documentation

The field of medicine has always been at the forefront of technological advancement. This is true of the way healthcare professionals and clinicians have administered treatments and practiced medicine and also of the strategies and practices in which they use medical documentation. From the first recorded medical notes, which were…

Can Scribes Help Solve Physician Burnout Caused by Medical Documentation?

(Lydia Zuraw/KHN illustration; Getty Images) To Free Doctors From Computers, Far-Flung Scribes Are Now Taking Notes For Them Sarah Kwon October 1, 2020 Podiatrist Dr. Mark Lewis greets his first patient of the morning in his suburban Seattle exam room and points to a tiny video camera mounted on the…