HHS Releases Draft Recommendations To Relieve Burden From EHRs, IT

HHS on Wednesday (Nov. 28) unveiled numerous draft recommendations aimed at reducing provider burden related to health IT and electronic health records, including standardization in many areas and leveraging of health IT to ease prior authorization. “With the significant growth in EHRs comes frustration caused, in many cases, by regulatory and administrative requirements stacked on top of one another. Addressing the challenge of health IT burden and making EHRs useful for patients and providers, as the solutions in this draft...