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 | Organization Sort descending | Clinical Documentation | Health IT Usability and the User Experience | EHR Reporting | Public Health Reporting | Other | Submission |
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Pamela Schweitzer | Summit Healthcare, LLC | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |||
Mary Ann Chaffee | Surescripts | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |
Susan Bergman | Susan Biener Bergman, MD | ✔ | Submission File | ||||
Jennifer Oliver | Tabula Rasa HealthCare | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | ||
Brian Moore | Tennessee Department of Health | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | ||
Joni Padden | Texas Health Resources | ✔ | Submission File | ||||
Shannon Vogel | Texas Medical Association | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |
Mari Tietze | Texas Nurses Association with Texas Organization of Nurse Executives | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |
Stephanie Hoelscher | Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |
Ragnhildur Bjarnadottir | The Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |||
Marian Grant | The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |
Loveleen Singh | The College of American Pathologists | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |||
Ben Moscovitch | The Pew Charitable Trusts | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | ||
Dawn Van Dyke | The Sequoia Project | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File |
Jayde Steckowych | Tri County ENT, LLC | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File |
Scott MacDonald | UC Davis Health | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |
Scott MacDonald | UC Davis Health | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |
Jim Gregware | UCFS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | ||
Bonnie Adrian | UCHealth | ✔ | Submission File | ||||
Kevin Harper | UL | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | ||
Sabra Rosener | UnityPoint Health | Submission File | |||||
Mark Savage | University of California, San Francisco's Center for Digital Health Innovation | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File | |||
James Carey | University of Utah Health | ✔ | Submission File | ||||
Jorge Ferrer | US Department of Veterans Affairs | Submission File | |||||
Meghan Galer | USA MC | ✔ | ✔ | Submission File |