Virtual Medical Scribe Services for Ophthalmology

Virtual Medical Scribe Services for Ophthalmology
- Scribes will have scribe access and permissions to Epic. While seeing patients, scribes will enter a patient's chart for data entry and the clinician will have read-only access to the chart to review clinical data. After each patient encounter, scribes will finalize documentation for the clinician's review and final signature. Scribes will endeavor to complete all text/data entry for a specific patient visit encounter within five minutes after the end of visit. Final signoff of all chart elements will remain the clinician's responsibility and timed at their discretion within the bounds of existing HIM policies for clinical documentation.
-Provide a high level of service dedicated to ophthalmology appointments.
-Provide service during the designated University appointment times.
-Monitor and implement methods of improving service as needed.
-Utilization of Kaleidoscope for scribe input.
-Provide services in a fully HIPAA-compliant manner.
-Fully execute a University of Iowa Business Associate Agreement (BAA).
-A separate device for maintaining communication between the scribe and clinician will be necessary.
-Post-deployment surveys of clinicians will be assessed to measure accuracy rates.