I have seen ads for clerk-type people with medical experience to follow the doc around and do the entering while the doctor does the examining and dictating. Add another expense to giving and getting medical care.
I recently saw an orthopedic surgeon and talked to him about his system. He carries an old fashioned recorder with him and talks into it about the visit. He then uses it to input all his data.
He said it is actually a timesaver since he can see more patients more quickly. He starts recording into it before he leaves the room and finishes before entering the next room. I didn’t have to wait on him either.
He said one of the office girls inputs the data.
Those are called medical “scribes.”
Many patients consider it to be an invasion of their privacy when they have intimate parts of their body examined in an exam room, and some twenty-something is sitting there watching and listening to all the intimate details as they enter the data.