Kill the Clipboard

Kill the Clipboard, from Leavitt Partners, is more than a slogan: it’s a rallying call for transformation. With CMS backing and downstream funding implications, this is a blueprint for modernizing patient and provider access to health data. In a voluntary initiative like this, early adopters will define the technical expectations, shape future policy, and gain strategic advantage. 

Kill the Clipboard Upcoming Webinar:
What Does the CMS-Aligned Network Strategy Mean for the Future of Interoperability?

This webinar, on Friday, August 8, 2025, at 12 pm ET, examines two recent developments with the potential to reshape health care data exchange: the release of the Kill the Clipboard policy roadmap and the White House and CMS announcement of what they envision as a CMS-aligned network. While the past decade has brought significant policy progress through the HITECH Act, 21st Century Cures Act, and CMS Interoperability Rules, much of the implementation has stalled. The Kill the Clipboard roadmap calls for renewed urgency to eliminate administrative waste, modernize data exchange, and build trust-based partnerships grounded in open standards. The July 30 White House and CMS announcement, coupled with the CMS/ASTP/ONC Health Technology Ecosystem RFI, and broader federal AI action plan, clearly indicates this administration is prioritizing working with the private sector to help them more aggressively implement those open standards.  

This session will explore how these developments relate to each other and what they mean for the future of interoperability. It will unpack how this new federal push aligns with, or diverges from, TEFCA and other national exchange efforts, and what role the private sector must play in order to move from proprietary solutions to sustainable, standards-based ones. 

Kill the Clipboard White Paper:
A Federal Policy and Industry Roadmap to Accelerate Innovation and Cut Administrative Waste

With the transition to a new administration, our Kill the Clipboard White Paper presents an opportunity to build on the work that has been done to date and accelerate our need to move to a more interoperable, patient-centered, digital health focused model of care. Now is the time to provide space for new innovations so we can help solve our most pressing health challenges and meaningfully advance health care data exchange across the country.

Kill the Clipboard Webinar Replay:
What the Federal RFI Signals About the Future of Health Care Data Exchange

In March 2025, Leavitt Partners, an HMA Company, in conjunction with a number of multi-sector stakeholders, released Kill the Clipboard! A Federal Policy and Industry Roadmap to Accelerate Innovation and Cut Administrative Waste. Just three months later, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its Request for Information (RFI) on the Health Technology Ecosystem. The priorities in the RFI closely reflected the multi-sector roadmap’s recommendations, underscoring the influence and relevance of effective public/private sector collaboration. This session explored how the paper and the RFI’s recommendations on interoperability, TEFCA modernization, digital identity, patient access, and administrative burden reduction can reduce unnecessary burden and waste. The presenters also discussed how this alignment offers a path forward for policy leaders, health care organizations, and technology partners committed to modernizing the U.S. health system.