ONC’s Strategy to Streamline HIT—AHA Gives Feedback
January 30, 2019 The amount of time that clinicians and healthcare organizations are required to spend fulfilling federal documentation requirements regarding patient care is often cited as a major cause of burnout and stress among healthcare professionals. In an effort to simplify these requirements and relieve the strain, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in November issued a draft strategy to reduce regulatory and administrative burden related to health information technology (HIT) and electronic health record (EHR)…