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3 Critical Tips for Healthcare Providers Working with Medical Scribes

The minds of healthcare providers operate much like your typical software computing system. In one sense, the average person only understands the various outputs of information provided and the front-end design of the system. However, what we don’t see in those systems and providers alike are the hundreds of thousands of decision points being processed internally. From managing numerous critical patients at a time, running through a long list of differential diagnoses for the patient in front of them, tracking lab results for the patients that have been seen, and being ready to take on the next person being brought in at any point in time, the average workday of a provider can feel overburdened and distracted from what’s most important: providing quality care.   Thankfully, with their inclusion in the healthcare field, medical scribes are not only able to provide efficient and effective charting, but they’re also capable of reducing the stressors and burdens of the provider by acting as an extension of their unnecessarily crowded minds.   The role of a medical scribe extends much further than just providing real-time documentation services. Medical scribes can be seen as the “Swiss Army Knife” of the healthcare field, as they …

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What’s Causing the Healthcare Staffing Shortages? How to Combat the Issue

What’s causing the healthcare staffing shortages? This article explains the issue and what you can do to support your teams. The workforce across the board from all industries has seen a consistent decline in workforce participation despite the remarkable 3.8 million jobs added in 2021 alone–a total of 3.25 million fewer Americans are working today compared to February of 2020.[1] In healthcare alone, from 2019 to 2020, job vacancies for various types of nursing personnel increased by up to 30%, and for respiratory therapists by 31%. Healthcare staffing shortages are expected to persist, with an analysis of EMSI data showing there will be a shortage of up to 3.2 million healthcare workers by 2026.[2] Shortages Caused by COVID and Other Factors Back in 2020, it was proven that healthcare workers were seven times more likely to have severe COVID-19 compared to other workers.[3] Now in 2022, millions of Americans are struggling with long-term effects of contracting COVID-19, with many of them unable to work due to chronic health issues.[4] These people who have had long-term COVID symptoms are now diagnosed with Post COVID-19 Syndrome. This syndrome includes a variety of new, returning, or ongoing symptoms that people who have suffered …