ACP delivers a position paper on administrative burdens

This article is free to all, and a must read.  Now we need action. In the same issue, Dr. Chris Sinsky writes a wonderful editorial – Designing and Regulating Wisely: Removing Barriers to Joy in Practice. Physicians may now spend more time documenting care and complying with administrative and regulatory requirements than caring for patients… The high volumes of clerical work, along with poorly designed technology, and the resultant time pressures are among the major drivers of alarming levels of physician burnout… The medical community has come to expect evidence-based medical practice. A similar expectation for evidence-based policy, regulation, and information technology has not yet been established. The ACP recommendations are a timely call for greater evidence-based regulation and for a shared responsibility to create better value in health care. Medical training takes too long to waste physician time on activities that do not really require their involvement.  Patients want enough time with their physicians.  Physicians want to spend time with patients, not with computers or forms or talking with insurance companies. In my opinion, this is the most important position paper that ACP has produced in the last decade or possibly longer.  This paper confronts directly the biggest problem in healthcare today.  We can only hope that both parties will read and understand this paper.  We can only hope that CMS and all insurance companies will read and und...
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