Virtual Medical Scribe

What is a Virtual Medical Scribe?

If there’s one thing doctors wish they could take off their plate, it’s the heavy administrative work associated with medical documentation. Completing data entry tasks on their own diverts their time and focus from their most clinically important duty—patient care. To address physician burnout, many health facilities in the U.S. have enlisted the help of companies that offer virtual medical scribe services or medical transcription companies to assist in their workflow.

Virtual medical scribes are, simply put, medical scribes that work remotely. They offer the same range of services as a medical scribe, with advantages like convenience, added privacy, and more. Undoubtedly, hospitals, clinics, and physicians can greatly benefit from virtual scribes and their services.

What Does Ditto’s Virtual Medical Scribe Do?

Ditto Transcripts offers virtual medical scribe services to relieve providers from clerical tasks that prevent them from seeing more patients. This results in happier doctors, increased patient satisfaction, and improved document quality. Our specially trained virtual medical scribes can provide medical documentation solutions tailored to your specific needs. We’ve been leading the industry since 2010, providing personalized medical scribe services to healthcare organizations in our home state of Colorado and states coast to coast.

Our Telehealth/Telemedicine Scribes Serve A Range of Specialties

Our medical scribes are equipped with deep knowledge of medical terminology and technical skills due to rigorous training and testing. They can handle even the most complicated and longest appointments under these specialties:

Our medical scribes are also trained in surgical specialties, including:

Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Medical Scribe

Virtual medical scribes can transform your practice by delivering much-needed documentation support in your day-to-day operations, thereby helping increase physician productivity. Here are a few reasons why you need them in your practice.

Reduced Costs With Virtual Scribes

When you hire virtual medical scribes directly from Ditto Transcripts, you save on employee training, office space, and equipment expenses. This is a more cost-effective solution than hiring someone permanently in-house. The savings you make each month can make a real difference to your accounts.

Ditto Transcripts offers its medical scribe services at competitive prices to ensure that you get the best value for your investment. And the good news is that you don’t need to sign a long-term contract with us to enjoy these services.

Lighter Clerical Workload

Physicians see patients, do in-patient rounds, administer medical procedures, attend seminars, and attend conferences. They have a million things to tick off their to-do list every single day, and the support provided by virtual medical scribes can significantly lighten their workload so they can focus more on patient care—the most important part of their job.

Adding A Sense of Privacy for Patients

One downside to having an in-person medical scribe is the anxiety they can cause patients. Patients often have to divulge highly personal information during a doctor’s appointment, and having a third person in the room can feel intrusive.

On the other hand, a virtual scribe works from an offsite location, allowing the physician and patient to be alone. This increases patients’ perception of privacy during a visit, which is especially beneficial to those who feel awkward with someone else physically in the room.

When patients feel at ease, they are more inclined to open up and be honest about their health issues, increasing the accuracy of diagnosis and the effectiveness of the prescribed treatment.

Improved Medical Practice Efficiency

Ditto Transcripts’ virtual medical scribes accurately document patient records in real time, improving healthcare providers’ efficiency and productivity.

Moreover, doctors who complete their own data entry do so during a patient visit. Instead of facing their patient, they type away at their computer, which may cause some patients to feel disconnected from them.

A virtual scribe can help improve physician-patient interaction by allowing doctors to focus entirely on their patients during a visit or examination.

Addresses Shortage of On-site Scribes

Medical practices may not always have access to on-site scribes in the area where they operate. This is mostly true for clinics situated in rural areas.

However, even city-based facilities can still experience a shortage of long-term in-person scribes. For instance, some medical students only accept traditional medical scribing jobs for training. After gaining enough experience, these students will eventually quit to become medical doctors themselves.

Using remote scribes addresses this shortage issues experienced by rural and urban-based healthcare institutions, especially in this day and age wherein technology dominates the medical landscape.

Let Ditto Transcripts Fulfill Your EHR/EMR Documentation Needs

When you work with us, you won’t need to wonder how to hire a medical scribe, how many you need, or how much training they should get. Ditto Transcripts can hire, train, and maintain virtual medical scribes for your practice, surgery center, or hospital. If you let us do the work, you won’t have to type up your own reports anymore, freeing up your schedule so you can have more time for patients, yourself, and your family.

Additionally, you needn’t worry about the cost of hiring a medical scribe. Our affordable rates will cover everything.

Curious? Call us for more information, and we will happily answer any questions about the best virtual medical scribe services in the industry. You may reach us at (720) 287-3710. We are open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Standard/Daylight Time.

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When we say specific, we mean specific. We have deep medical transcription services expertise for these specialized fields: