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This web-based training course prepares a medical scribe to accompany a medical provider on each patient encounter to abstract and transcribe the electronic medical record (EMR) during the provider’s interaction with a patient. On average, emergency department providers spend only half of their time with patients and half reviewing test results, recording treatment and discharge orders, writing prescriptions and reviewing test results. A scribe program can reduce this documentation load, allowing providers to focus more on patient diagnosis and care. But scribes must understand and use medical terminology accurately and also learn to anticipate the workflow of an emergency department.
Researchers and clinicians at the University of Florida have developed a web-based learning platform that integrates all the learning objectives necessary for scribes to become integral members of the medical team. This training course can replace classroom training, allowing students to learn at their own pace and to have around-the-clock access to learning resources. It also gives training coordinators a platform to give individualized feedback. The platform adheres to Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) specifications, technical standards for e-learning products that ensure content and learning management software works together.
Web-based training program with integrated objectives for medical scribes in the emergency department
This e-learning course teaches medical terminology, documentation and charting procedures, and emergency department workflow. The course includes 120 hours of instruction, up to two weekly hands-on training shifts in the emergency department, and weekly quizzes. This program meets SCORM specifications.
This performance analysis software provides an evaluation framework and customizable performance metrics to assist hospital emergency rooms, medical clinics, and other organizations in evaluating employees. With the growth of clinics and other businesses comes greater demand for a better performing workforce. The performance analytics market will be worth $2.59 billion by 2021. Existing performance assessments for emergency department physicians, for instance, largely evaluate employees through purely objective means, such as the number of patients served or tests ordered per hour. However, these factors are outside of an employee’s control and often results in a measurement of categories unrelated to their actual performance and impact the overall review and comparison of employees.
Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a performance analytics tool that uses a data preparation algorithm and a web-based reporting application to account for extraneous factors and better evaluate employee performance against more accurate benchmarks. For medical professionals, the algorithm factors in important variables, such as caseload and type, to normalizes an employee’s performance metrics, which leads to more realistic analysis of the metrics needed to measure the employee’s ability and make decisions during reviews.
Employee performance analytics software that normalizes relevant, individualized job targets through an algorithm and web-based reporting for more accurate reviews
This performance analytics tool generates employee performance reports for medical clinics, hospitals and businesses using a data algorithm and a web-based reporting application. The software accounts for variables that are specifically relevant to the job, which normalizes the results. An original algorithm merges the data sources, creating personalized targets for employees in each metric. By comparing employees’ performance to their targets, the algorithm creates an accurate evaluation of performance in any metric.
