As the OpenNotes movement continues to grow, a broad variety of journalists, patients and health care professionals are taking note. Even better, they’re sharing the facts, data, opinions and experiences of those sharing medical notes. See what the buzz is all about.
When Linda Johnson had a significant health scare away from her home in Seattle, she shared her medical notes from Dr. Sara Jackson and her care team at Harborview Medical Center, both with her daughter and the Baltimore hospital’s team that took care of her. Linda’s long term plan going forward is to involve her family…
Three organizations have had success with care coordination but with different approaches. […] Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital: OpenNotes Other providers have gone even further in coordinating care by involving the patients in the process. At Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, for example, the OB/GYN department has adopted the OpenNotes initiative, which allows patients to review…
Initiative’s goal is to expand to 50 million patients within three years Mount Sinai Health System in New York has joined the OpenNotes movement, which allows patients electronic access to their provider’s notes in their medical records. The OpenNotes initiative, which started with 20,000 patients in 2010, now includes more than 5 million patients. Its…
Watch Dr. Mark DePaolis’ 2 minute humorous piece on OpenNotes. You can view it here by clicking on the April 8th episode and fast forwarding to 27:52 minutes. Enjoy!
Excerpt from an interview with Jon Hallberg, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, on Minnesota Public Radio. The next time you visit a doctor you may get to see everything they write about you. The record sharing philosophy is call “open notes.” Q: How is (open notes) different…
Listen to authors Sigall K. Bell, MD (from the OpenNotes team), and Stanley R. Vance Jr, MD, read their Teaching and Learning Moments essay, “When Patients Teach,” published in the April 2016 issue.
At the University of Colorado Health, C.T. Lin, M.D., has been a passionate advocate for empowering patients through information. He spent more than a decade building support for a program that gives patients access to their records, including clinical notes. C.T. Lin, M.D., readily admits to being a bit naïve when tried to convince a…
A new program called OpenNotes helps patients be more engaged Ever wondered what your doctor is saying about you in all of those typed or scribbled notes? You may be able to find out soon, if you can’t already. OpenNotes is a national movement encouraging physicians to share medical records and the observations they record…
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