Summary of Public Comment for Draft Strategy
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.
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 Sort ascending | Organization | Clinical Documentation | Health IT Usability and the User Experience | EHR Reporting | Public Health Reporting | Other | Submission |
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Joni Padden | Texas Health Resources | ✔ | Submission File | ||||
Jonathan Baran | Healthfinch, Inc. | ✔ | Submission File | ||||
John Travis | Cerner Corporation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File |
John Phillips | Advanced Physicians Services New York Medical College | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | ||
John Heard | A.T. Still University | ✔ | Submission File | ||||
John Gachago | EHealth Solutions LLC /Afridokta.com | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | ||
John Merriam | E.S Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University Medical Center | ✔ | Submission File | ||||
John Dodd | BDC-HealthIt | ✔ | Submission File | ||||
Joel White | Health IT Now | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |
Jim Gregware | UCFS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | ||
Jessica Rubenstein | California Medical Association | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |
Jessica Doos | UVMMC Porter Hospital | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | ||
Jennifer Oliver | Tabula Rasa HealthCare | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | ||
Jeffrey Davis | American College of Emergency Physicians | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |
Jeffery Smith | AMIA | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File |
Jayde Steckowych | Tri County ENT, LLC | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File |
Janice Kupiec | American Dental Association | ✔ | Submission File | ||||
Janet Hamilton | Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | ||
Jamie Ferguson | kaiser Permanente | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |
James Stephenitch | Cognizant | ✔ | Submission File | ||||
James Roberts | Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |||
James Carey | University of Utah Health | ✔ | Submission File | ||||
Isabelle LeBlanc | Heart Rhythm Society | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |||
Husnain Mansoor | GEHRIMED | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |
Howard Green Green | Dermatology Associates of The Palm Beaches | ✔ | Submission File |