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Some Medical Assistants Work With Robot Doctors

Some Medical Assistants Work With Robot Doctors

As we move closer to the inevitable apocalyptic war between machines and humans that The Terminator predicted, robots continue to take on bigger and more impressive tasks — and this time, medical assistants are on the front line. You see, more and more hospitals have begun using “telepresence robots” when there aren’t enough doctors to […]

Iris Scanners: A Medical Assistant’s Best Friend?

Could Medical Assistants One Day Greet Patients with an Iris Scan?

It sounds like something you’d see alongside flying cars and tube transportation on The Jetsons, but iris scanning could be coming to a doctor’s office near you sooner than you’d think. Why is this noteworthy for medical assistants? Well, one of the primary tasks that medical assistants perform every day is maintaining patient records, and […]

Medical Assistants Need to Prepare for Electronic Health Records

Medical Assistants Need to Prepare for Electronic Health Records

Beginning in 2010, the federal government made available nearly $1.2 billion in incentives to get hospitals and doctors to move away from paper medical charts and record keeping and implement electronic health record (EHR) keeping on a “meaningful” level. Three years later, the endeavor is paying off, with the number of hospitals using electronic records […]

Medical Assistant Fired for Snooping Through Kim Kardashian’s Files

Medical Assistant Fired for Snooping Through Kim Kardashian’s Files

A medical assistant and five other medical personnel have been fired from their positions after inappropriately accessing records of patients — reportedly including Kim Kardashian — at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The reality TV starlet gave birth in the hospital on June 15 to a girl named North, her first child with rapper […]

10 Famous Medical Assistants

10 Famous Medical Assistants

Medical assisting isn’t exactly the profession you choose if you want to become famous, but against all odds, there have been several medical assistants throughout history and into the present who have achieved a certain level of notoriety at some point in their lives.