Tag Archives: medical records

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 […]