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The employment of medical scribes to document in the electronic health record (EHR) on behalf of providers has become commonplace, but it could pose patient safety risks because scribes most often have no clinical training. This presentation will be based on a pre-COVID study published in JAMIA that investigated the work of scribes and identified best practices to assure that scribe use of the EHR is not a patient safety risk. It will be enhanced with a discussion of the impact of the pandemic on the safe use of scribes.

Dr.Brian S. Alper Alper presented summaries of recently published RCT evidence and current guideline recommendations regarding anticoagulation for patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Watch the Recording Presenter

Dr. John Horn and Dr. David Bates discussed an evaluation of Seegnal, a company that has developed novel medication-related decision tool support which can be implemented within any electronic health record. They also presented the results of an evaluation study that resulted in 93% fewer medication alerts than the native [...]