Stop Regulating Government Paperwork With More Government Paperwork

Effort reporting: government drops much-criticized paperwork.

Paperwork reduction act reauthorization and government information management issues

Replacing the ineffective Federal Reports Act of 1942, the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (PRA) was enacted largely to relieve the public of the mounting information collection and reporting requirements of the federal government. It also promoted coordinated information management activities on a government-wide basis by the director of the Office of Management and Budget and prescribed infor...

Pummelled by paperwork.

Most academic research laboratories are in a precarious position. Everyone—from university presidents to politicians to the public—expects them to come up with new insights that can be exploited for economic growth. However, without sufficient resources, few laboratories are able to do so, and the growing competition for limited research money makes it increasingly difficult to secure adequate ...

Yearly planning meetings: individualized development plans aren't just more paperwork.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) encourages trainees to make Individualized Development Plans to help them prepare for academic and nonacademic careers. We describe our approach to building an Individualized Development Plan, the reasons we find them useful and empowering for both PIs and trainees, and resources to help other labs implement them constructively.

First : Cut the Paperwork

In our national debate on health-care reform, an ethical climate is developing that denies whole categories of health-care services to one group of citizens or another. In response to this disturbing trend, a leading group of ethicists and physicians, chaired by the author, gathered to suggest a new moral guideline for health-care reform. In our statement, “Core Values in Health-Care Reform: A ...