25 by 5: Symposium to Reduce Documentation Burden on US Clinicians by 75% by 2025

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Abstract

Project Summary: The 25 by 5 Symposium on electronic documentation burden among clinicians is a scientific meeting designed to reduce current clinical electronic documentation burden by 25% in the next 5 years. Documentation burden has become a growing national concern with the increased adoption and use of electronic health records, leading to increased clinician burnout and associated negative impacts on patient care such as increased medical errors and hospital acquired infections. The 25 by 5 symposium will gather experts from diverse sectors (e.g., government, academia, industry) and professional backgrounds (e.g., medical and nursing providers, scientists) to propose both a taxonomy for understanding and measuring clinician electronic documentation burden and a set of action items for reducing it. Specific meeting goals include: 1) Create a meeting that engages a diverse group of key stakeholders and leaders focused on reducing documentation burden, 2) Assess the likely potential for burden reduction within each category of documentation burden tasks, including identifying `low hanging fruit' for `quick wins', 3) Establish approaches for immediate (<3 months) and short-term (6 months) reduction in clinical documentation burden, and 3) Generate approaches to longer term (10 years) elimination of clinical documentation burden. The symposium proposal is guided by Lewin's Field Theory framework so that we will: identify and engage critical and facilitating change actors (key stakeholders), outline driving and restraining forces to implementing our solution, and evaluate our proposed plans for change according to their potency and amenability. The goal is for key stakeholders to leave the conference with a clear plan for implementing proposed solutions with iterative improvement based on feedback and learning.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10144333
Project number
1R13LM013581-01
Recipient
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
Principal Investigator
S TRENT ROSENBLOOM
Activity code
R13
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2020
Award amount
$18,333
Award type
1
Project period
2020-09-10 → 2022-08-31