Scribes in the ED Part 1

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Emergency Medicine Operations Management

In this podcast series, Joseph Guarisco, MD FAAEM, a past chair of the AAEM Operations Management Committee, is joined by guests to discuss operations management issues for the emergency physician. Join him as he discusses issues of importance to emergency physicians.

Joseph Guarisco, MD FAAEM, ED Chair at Ochsner Hospital (New Orleans, LA) and Chair of the AAEM Operations Management Committee, interviews Todd B. Taylor, MD FAAEM, an emergency physician and independent consultant in the areas of healthcare IT and practice management. In part one of this episode, Drs. Guarisco and Todd discuss scribes in the emergency department covering the history and definition of scribes, in addition to data surrounding the financial and efficiency outcomes of these programs.

Intro music by SaReGaMa, ‘Sky is the Limit,’ from the album ‘Sky is the Limit,’ powered by JAMENDO.