Friday, April 29, 2011

Evolution in Workforce Development through Technology Uptake

The need for skilled healthcare workers working in close tandem with clinicians has never been greater than this. A lot of demands have been placed on healthcare facilities and enterprises to meet measurable goals, report core measures, and implement quality data metrics for HIE.

A properly prepared and educated workforce aids the dynamics within the healthcare industry to achieve organizational goals for meeting meaningful use objectives. A combined team of diverse leadership, including clinical and non-clinical roles, IT, project management, analysts, and support services, enable change management to occur between both the informatics team and the business side of the organization combining common vision, mission, and goals.

New regulations in healthcare change the dynamics of an enterprise to focus on adoption of technologies, centered with attainment of meaningful use objectives, achieved on time. One such attribute, combining efficiencies, is the development of the nation's first online medical scribe program with instructor facilitation. Both ScribeAmerica and TRSi Corporation recognized a timely need to bridge the gap from traditional roles and enable online educational outreach to prospective students and facilities. In the past, medical scribe training programs typically included an application process, followed by a screening process selecting pre-medical students, second year and above. Today an innovative curriculum has been co-developed with Chief Medical Officer, Luis Moreno, MD, of ScribeAmerica in tandem with Director of Curriculum Development, Kristin Hagen, CPEHR, CPHIT, CPHIE, of TRSi. Both companies share unique perspective to supply the industry with long-term quality educated scribes to sustain healthcare systems, multi-specialty clinics, and rural or urban practices.

Obtaining the appropriate education, skill set, and credentials are a necessity to fully develop and participate in best practices for the organization, increase patient safety, and ensure risk management mitigation is taking place within the US Healthcare System. Standards must be adopted and met to ensure the right solution in stepwise fashion for health information exchange partnered with the communities. Technology adoption is moving at a faster pace, and it is imperative allied healthcare workers understand the opportunities in front them.

Below is a shared link from social media networking regarding medical scribes and their inherent value as a professional career or stepping stone. With solid education, medical scribes add yet another dimension to the healthcare delivery model to aid physicians, promote patient safety, and aid overarching goals of real-time documentation delivered at the point of care.

The self-paced online curriculum is provides the allied healthcare student with broad-based education and understanding in HIT through simulations aiding clinical understanding. Coursework includes anatomy & physiology, pathophysiology, human disease processes, pharmacology, medical terminology, diagnostics and radiology, alongside non-clinical instruction which includes industry understanding of billing and coding levels, case studies, and data entry input methods into an EHR system. TRSi is focused on building the next-generation workforce and deems its mission on equipping "work-ready graduates" to successfully transition to industry scribe positions for physicians, facilities, and staff.


Emergency Medical Scribes & Other Allied Healthcare Scribe Opportunities.

1 comment:

  1. interesting blog. It would be great if you can provide more details about it. Thanks you


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