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

> **NIH NIH R13** · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2020 · $18,333

## 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 organization:** COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** S TRENT ROSENBLOOM
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $18,333
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-10 → 2022-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10144333

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10144333, 25 by 5: Symposium to Reduce Documentation Burden on US Clinicians by 75% by 2025 (1R13LM013581-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10144333. Licensed CC0.

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