2017 Volume 18 Issue 3 Pages 180-183
The core role of the medical doctor's clerk (DC) in Nanpuh Hospital is to support doctors with outpatient care and to record medical certificates on behalf of doctors. In meeting the demands from the clinical site, DC's overtime increased as the requests from doctors grew. Therefore, to improve work efficiency, we had assigned DC into the busy period during the outpatient care, and granted responsibility as the person in charge of recording medical information into database. As a result, we could introduce the DC system into other new departments. In addition, in 2015, the number of medical certificate recording was increased by 7%, discharge summary recording was increased by 73%, thus, could shorten overtime by 21% from the preceding fiscal year.
Furthermore, we constructed a doctor support system that focused on the data analysis, clinical study and foreign language. We found those supports were helpful for the doctors, and it was more than we imagined. With variety of the DC's roles in acute care hospital, reduction of the doctor's burden, and contribution to the development of the hospital is expected.
