Dr. Vince Leone explains how chiropractors can cut documentation time by hiring a clinical assistant to gather patient history and enter notes during the exam. The CA handles charting in real time while the doctor focuses on treatment, finishing the chart before the patient leaves.
Well, for instance, most chiropractors, I think, are bogged down with their documentation. Hmm. Well, what would be— why not hire a scribe or a CA? That's their job, in essence, is to help you with documentation where they, they take the patient into the room, that CA updates the patient, I'll get all their subjective History and complaints. Then you go into the room, you do your exam and your palpation findings and stuff, and you're just dictating that to them, and they're entering it in as you go live on the fly. You're telling them their diagnosis, they're putting that in. You're telling them what you're doing for treatment in the plan part, they're putting all that in. You walk out the door with the patient, telling them when their next appointment is, and all that's done. All the documentation is done.
