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High-tech scribes help transfer medical records into electronic form

 |  By HealthLeaders Media Staff  
   October 07, 2009

Instead of pens, scribes at the University of Virginia Medical Center use laptops as they trail doctors from bed to bed, taking detailed notes that will form part of each patient's electronic medical record. Experts say the scribes' role illustrates hospitals' often bumpy transition from clipboards and closets of paper charts to digital records.

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