ONC received 208 comments on the draft Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs during the public commenting period. 

The draft strategy focused on 4 areas: clinical documentation, health IT usability and the user experience, EHR reporting, and public health reporting. Many stakeholders commented on more than one focus area in their submissions, with the majority of submissions commenting on health IT usability and the user experience. 

Submission Chart

As intended by the comment process, comments were submitted by a wide range of stakeholders including: Health professional societies, providers of health services, health information technology developers, hospitals, public health entities, health care payers, health care quality organizations, state entities, health care suppliers of services, health care accreditation organizations, and patient advocates. Several stakeholders self-identified as "Other" and encompass a wide variety stakeholders.

For those wishing to review comments submitted relating to this report, please reference the below chart. This chart may be sorted using the dropdown by report section.

Name Organization Clinical Documentation Health IT Usability and the User Experience EHR Reporting Public Health Reporting Other Submission
Ragnhildur Bjarnadottir The Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) ✔ ✔ Submission File
Rachel Shepherd Association of Public Health Laboratories ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Rachel Schwartz America's Essential Hospitals ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Rachel Groman American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Priya Lamba Physicians Advocacy Institute ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Phil Pearl MediRec ✔ Submission File
Peter Leibold Ascension ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Peter Basch MedStar Health ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Paul Wilson NCPDP ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Paul Harkaway SE CIN ✔ ✔ Submission File
Paul Cotton NCQA ✔ ✔ Submission File
Patrick Johnson American Academy of Pediatrics ✔ ✔ Submission File
Patricia Jones Anoint With Oil Submission File
Pamela Schweitzer Summit Healthcare, LLC ✔ ✔ Submission File
Pamela Greenberg Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness ✔ Submission File
Nathan Tatro American Psychiatric Association ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Nancy Hailpern Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Monica Nemec Centerstone ✔ Submission File
Mindi Walker Society for Vascular Surgery ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Michelle Troseth Natioanl Academies of Practice ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Michael Saito Epic Systems Corp. ✔ Submission File
Michael Richter Michael Richter MD ✔ Submission File
Michael Prevoznik Quest Diagnostics ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Michael Mabry RadNet ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File
Michael Griffin AdventHealth ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Submission File