Administrative tasks steal clinical time and contribute to burnout. The AAFP offers resources to help you take back that time and safeguard your well-being. Learn the latest ways to help your practice evolve and follow the Academy’s progress in achieving administrative simplification through federal and state advocacy.
Documentation Burden
Continuous process improvements such as these can help you spend more time with patients and less time with paperwork.
Prior Authorization
Complementing the AAFP’s advocacy for reform: guidance to help your practice streamline the PA process.
EHR Inbox
Ahead of essential systemic changes the Academy is pushing to realize: key ways to reduce time spent on inbox management.
Chart Review Burden
Family physicians spend more than 1.5 hours per clinic day conducting chart reviews in support of visits and care.
Quality Measurements
Relieving the burdens of quality and performance measurement requires both advocacy and innovation.
EHR Usability
Ahead of essential systemic changes the Academy is pushing to realize: key ways to reduce time spent on inbox management.
"I want to feel a connection with patients. I do feel the natural flow is to be more engaged with my patients, not just surviving and going room to room, but actually connecting. I am aware that this connection will play a large role in my patients’ compliance with instructions.”