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.
We look at the evolution and future of OpenNotes — from the impact it has had on patient engagement, medication adherence, and physician workflows to the technological challenges of implementing a truly vendor-agnostic tool. By @JennHIStalk Six years ago, the notion that patients could have electronic access to their doctor’s notes was almost unheard of.…
Something really interesting is happening these days around physician documentation. For years now, as patient care organizations have implemented electronic health records (EHRs), the shift from paper to electronic documentation has led to some unfortunate unintended consequences. Chief of these has been the phenomenon of “note bloat”—the electronic agglutination of physician notes and other data,…
One of the biggest benefits of the OpenNotes initiative has been clarification of misunderstandings between patients and clinicians, according to the Commonwealth Fund. A new post describes some of the findings of a study published last month by the organization for which chronic patients at OpenNotes facilities were interviewed, face-to-face, to determine the impact on…
CHIME News: CHIME Partnership with OpenNotes Garners Attention from the White House Key Takeaways: CHIME Announces Partnership with OpenNotes. Why it Matters: On Thursday, February 25, CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell, participated in The White House Precision Medicine Initiative Summit. During the event, several speakers highlighted progress that’s been made during the first year…
Can sharing physician notes with patients have a positive effect on care? That is the basic question behind the OpenNotes movement, which sprung out of a three-city pilot program in Boston, Seattle, and rural Pennsylvania and has since gone on to give more than five million patients access to their medical records. Using a patient…
Lessons abound in the experience of the University of Iowa Health Care’s journey into accountable care Moving any health system forward on the path to accountable care organization (AO) development is inevitably a complex venture; but larger numbers of integrated health systems, including academic medical center-anchored ones, are plunging in these days, with meaningful results.…
Author’s Note: This is an entirely true story (I actually referred to my office notes as I wrote it), with only the patient’s name changed. I saw Joe (not his real name), a 63 year-old retired corporate manager, for his annual wellness visit. Joe has been my patient for 20 years. He has always been…
Discussing them with patients may enhance health outcomes Between 40% and 80% of what a healthcare provider tells patients is immediately forgotten, and half of what they do remember, they get wrong. “Those are two of the most depressing statistics I’ve ever heard,” said John Mafi, MD, a professor at the David Geffen School of…
