The American College of Physicians (ACP) has published a position paper “Putting Patients First by Reducing Administrative Tasks in Health Care” to address the issue of administrative tasks to reduce their adverse impact on physicians and their patients as well as the health care system as a whole. Published online March 28, 2017, the position paper makes the following recommendations: The ACP calls on stakeholders external to the physician practice or health care clinician environment who develop or implement administrative tasks (such as payers, governmental and other oversight organizations, vendors and suppliers, and others) to provide financial, time, and quality-of-care impact statements for public review and comment.
This activity should occur for existing and new administrative tasks. Tasks that are determined to have a negative effect on quality and patient care, unnecessarily…
