Kaiser Health News reported some physicians are voicing concerns about the profession's lack of medical scribe standards, according to iHealthBeat.
Here are five things to know:
1. Scribes are not licensed and only one-third are voluntarily certified.
2. While some companies prefer candidates to have at least two years of college, the minimum qualification to become a scribe is a high school diploma.
3. There is no enforcement mechanism to ensure scribes are not entering sensitive patient information, such as prescription drug orders, into a system.
4. The number of medical scribes is projected to increase from 20,000 today to 100,000 by 2020.
5. George Gellert, regional chief medical informatics officer at Christus Santa Rosa Health System, said, "This is literally an exploding industry, filling a perceived gap, but there is no regulation or oversight at all."
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