Making EHRs Doc-Friendly Only Part of the Job in the Feds’ Health IT Office

MedPage Today October 25, 2017
Joyce Frieden

– Relieving documentation burdens is really the key, says John Fleming, MD Sure, making electronic health records easier for physicians to use is a big part of the job for John Fleming, MD, deputy assistant secretary for health technology reform at the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology. But it’s only part of the picture.
“There has been layer on layer on layer of burden on physicians since the early 1980s, and computers increased it — one of the biggest burdens is documentation guidelines,” said Fleming. “I’d love to tell you that if we made EHRs better in terms of interfacing with them … that it would solve the physician burden problems, but the plain truth...

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