HIMSS July 5, 2019
On June 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a request for information (RFI) seeking new input from stakeholders related to the continued momentum behind its Patients Over Paperwork initiative. CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) began work on this initiative in 2017. It seeks ways to mitigate the regulatory, administrative, reporting and documentation burdens that contribute to clinician activity that does not serve patient interests, does not improve quality or safety, or regardless of intent, is highly inefficient. This burden has also proven to be a major contributing factor that dilutes the value of the patient-clinician experience and overarching relationship.
CMS’s RFI is looking for input from all health care...