Becker's Healthcare May 29, 2024
The use of virtual scribes at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham was linked to reduced time in the EHR for providers, researchers found.
The May 24 study in JAMA Network Open analyzed 144 outpatient physicians who employed virtual scribes — either in real time or asynchronously — for at least three months between January 2020 and September 2022 at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston. The digital tools were “associated with significant decreases in total EHR time, time on...