And we would really love, my past suggestion of allowing mid-levels and other staff members the ability to write almost anything, letters, notes, Rx, all while having the proper providers name signed to it. Then the provider could approve such things, edit them, flush them (with no trace that it ever happen then) or make a note that she didn't fill the patient's requested control substance or what have you. But in an old fashioned paper office, staff can write letters and Rx's with the doc's name of them, put them on her desk or quickly ask for her signature and then finish them up for their provider. We need a system in AC, probably thru the inter-office email or something to allow us, e-charters to do the same. Right now our provider is the bottleneck in our office. But how can she not be??? Every little thing needs to either go thru her or be generated directly by her... That's just insane. Let me write the letter and she simply approves it; send it back to me, to finish printing, folding, and stamping the darn thing. Secondary staff's time is almost always less valuable than the providers. Only our providers can produce revenue producing encounters, right? Let me type the letters and let the MA write an Rx that the doc simply has to approve.
I absolutely agree. My wife and I use different electronic medical records. We both have noted how WE have become our own secretaries. We type our notes, we write our letters, we write our prescriptions... In fact, here I am working on clerical work when my secretary already left for the weekend!
