With documentation becoming more than just a word and EHR becoming a reality, most offices are trying to find ways to work more efficiently. EHRs just don't seem like awesome replacements for sliced bread, especially if you've been practicing just fine without them for your entire professional career. However, they are taking over, whether you want them to or not. One of the best ways to cope with and EHR and its additional documentation and coding, yet still keep your sanity and your patient satisfaction can be for the doctor to continue being a doctor and dealing with patients face-to-face, while someone else scribes (or documents) patient encounters for the doctor – getting down all of the vital patient information, the doctor findings and responses, and any work done, as well as the recommended treatment plan.
