[4yearlurker]

Lots of health care providers are switching from paper to the computer. Paper costs money,takes up a lot of space and you have to have a company pick up old files and shred them. Some doctors are using the computer program "DRAGON." The doctors Medical Assistant picks up the slack and now some offices have scibes who enter the doctors notes into the computer.

[Louis Foxwell]

You apparently have not noticed that the gov does not allow nurses to do data entry. Physicians are now spending literally half of their time filling out forms on the government’s data base.

[4yearlurker]

Scibes should read scribes.

[corkoman]

Paper is a miracle material. I see most clinicians finding a way out of direct data entry with jury-rigged paper work-arounds.

As per your: ...and now some offices have scibes who enter the doctors notes into the computer. Exactly - most efficient people will delegate inefficient activities.

My docs can complete a form in seconds where entry into any electronic device requires 5x the time and they have to find a surface to place the device to type into it.

Paper means never having to say oops, sorry all your data was hacked!

[Taxman]

My GP told me that she had to enter the data. No one else is allowed to enter patient data!