Mar 1, 2010 | Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Clinical pathology laboratories may soon handle lab test orders entered by scribes on behalf of physicians Along with the growing adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) systems comes robust demand for a new healthcare job: scribes! That is a bit ironic, since many advocates of EMRs believed that physicians would do the primary entry. In fact, the acronym CPOE (computerized physician order entry) was coined to describe this process. The trend of hiring scribes to interpose between...
