The office’s focus on reducing the documentation burden is part of a strategy to make the use of EHRs more palatable for small practice physicians.

“I believe every American should have a single, unified electronic health record system that resides in the cloud and is under full control of the patient, of the individual, of the American," said John Fleming.

John Fleming, a physician, was recently named the deputy assistant secretary for health technology at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to the Times-Picayune newspaper.