Mollie Hobensack1, Deborah R Levy2, Kenrick Cato1,3, Don E Detmer4, Kevin B Johnson5, Jeffrey Williamson6, Judy Murphy7, Amanda Moy8, Jennifer Withall1, Rachel Lee1, Sarah Collins Rossetti1,8, Samuel Trent Rosenbloom9. 1. Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, New York, United States. 2. Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States. 3. Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States. 4. Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. 5. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 6. American Medical Informatics Association, Bethesda, Maryland, United States. 7. Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. 8. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States. 9. Departments of Biomedical Informatics Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The widespread adoption of electronic health records and a simultaneous increase in regulatory demands have led to an acceleration of documentation requirements among clinicians. The corresponding burden from documentation requirements is a central contributor to clinician burnout and can lead to an increased risk of suboptimal patient care. OBJECTIVE: To address the problem of documentation burden, the 25 by 5: Symposium to Reduce Documentation Burden on United States Clinicians by 75% by 2025 (Symposium) was organized to provide a forum for experts to discuss the current state of documentation burden and to identify specific actions aimed at dramatically reducing documentation burden for clinicians. METHODS: The Symposium consisted of six weekly sessions with 33 presentations. The first four sessions included panel presentations discussing the challenges related to documentation burden. The final two sessions consisted of breakout groups aimed at engaging attendees in establishing interventions for reducing clinical documentation burden. Steering Committee members analyzed notes from each breakout group to develop a list of action items. RESULTS: The Steering Committee synthesized and prioritized 82 action items into Calls to Action among three stakeholder groups: Providers and Health Systems, Vendors, and Policy and Advocacy Groups. Action items were then categorized into as short-, medium-, or long-term goals. Themes that emerged from the breakout groups' notes include the following: accountability, evidence is critical, education and training, innovation of technology, and other miscellaneous goals (e.g., vendors will improve shared knowledge databases). CONCLUSION: The Symposium successfully generated a list of interventions for short-, medium-, and long-term timeframes as a launching point to address documentation burden in explicit action-oriented ways. Addressing interventions to reduce undue documentation burden placed on clinicians will necessitate collaboration among all stakeholders. Thieme. All rights reserved.
BACKGROUND: The widespread adoption of electronic health records and a simultaneous increase in regulatory demands have led to an acceleration of documentation requirements among clinicians. The corresponding burden from documentation requirements is a central contributor to clinician burnout and can lead to an increased risk of suboptimal patient care. OBJECTIVE: To address the problem of documentation burden, the 25 by 5: Symposium to Reduce Documentation Burden on United States Clinicians by 75% by 2025 (Symposium) was organized to provide a forum for experts to discuss the current state of documentation burden and to identify specific actions aimed at dramatically reducing documentation burden for clinicians. METHODS: The Symposium consisted of six weekly sessions with 33 presentations. The first four sessions included panel presentations discussing the challenges related to documentation burden. The final two sessions consisted of breakout groups aimed at engaging attendees in establishing interventions for reducing clinical documentation burden. Steering Committee members analyzed notes from each breakout group to develop a list of action items. RESULTS: The Steering Committee synthesized and prioritized 82 action items into Calls to Action among three stakeholder groups: Providers and Health Systems, Vendors, and Policy and Advocacy Groups. Action items were then categorized into as short-, medium-, or long-term goals. Themes that emerged from the breakout groups' notes include the following: accountability, evidence is critical, education and training, innovation of technology, and other miscellaneous goals (e.g., vendors will improve shared knowledge databases). CONCLUSION: The Symposium successfully generated a list of interventions for short-, medium-, and long-term timeframes as a launching point to address documentation burden in explicit action-oriented ways. Addressing interventions to reduce undue documentation burden placed on clinicians will necessitate collaboration among all stakeholders. Thieme. All rights reserved.
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