ScribeAmerica is a provider of

medical scribe A medical scribe is an allied health paraprofessional who specializes in charting physician-patient encounters in real time, such as during medical examinations. They also locate information and patients for physicians and complete forms needed ...

s to hospitals and medical practices. Co-founders Michael Murphy and Luis Moreno met in 2002 and founded ScribeAmerica the following year in

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. ScribeAmerica was headquartered in

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but recently moved its main offices to a larger facility in

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. The company had an annual revenue of $32.1 million in 2012. In August 2014, the company had 4,100 scribes in 610 hospitals. As of December 2014, the company had 4,635 employees across 580 contracts. ScribeAmerica acquired Medical Scribe Systems (Emergency Medicine Scribe Systems Inc.) in 2015 and PhysAssist, a competing scribe company, in November 2018. In the ''

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'', Murphy estimated 10,000 medical scribes work in the United States, mostly in emergency rooms. The

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offers incentives to the adoption of electronic medical record-keeping. ScribeAmerica is the most frequently-used medical scribe provider in the United States and documented 7 million patient visits in 2012. Since the

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passed in 2009, the company has grown 90-100% each year.

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Moving America Forward Features ScribeAmericaFox Business-Today In America - ScribeAmerica''Fox Business'' "Doctors not paying enough attention to patients?"
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