Reduce Burnout by Eliminating Billing Documentation Rules to Let Clinicians be Clinicians: A Clarion Call to Informaticists

Larry Ozeran; Richard Schreiber

doi:10.1055/s-0041-1722872

Applied Clinical Informatics, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Appl Clin Inform 2021; 12(01): 073-075
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1722872

Invited Editorial

Reduce Burnout by Eliminating Billing Documentation Rules to Let Clinicians be Clinicians: A Clarion Call to Informaticists

Larry Ozeran

¹Clinical Informatics, Woodland, California, United States

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Richard Schreiber

²Department of Medicine, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, United States

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