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.
by Michael Coren, MESc Patients, in theory, can access their own medical records. Yet a thicket of fees, institutional fear, and bureaucracy still stand between most patients and their medical charts. But a new project called OpenNotes suggests there is much to gain and little to fear by sharing medical records with patients as part of treatment. A…
By Jessica Greene, PhD, Judith H. Hibbard, PhD, Rebecca Sacks, and Valerie Overton, CNP, RN Patients who have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage their health and health care report better health care experiences than patients with lower levels of “activation” who see the same clinicians. Findings from this Commonwealth Fund–supported study suggest that care…
By Lygeia Ricciardi, EdM Giving patients (or, more broadly, consumers), easy electronic access to their own health information is a key step in empowering individuals to be more engaged partners in their health and their healthcare, including: coordinating care among multiple providers, making sure medical records are accurate and complete, and using apps and tools…
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has joined the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation’s ‘OpenNotes’ initiative as a partner along with other healthcare provider organizations – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Geisinger Health System, MD Anderson Cancer Center . These organizations are all fully committed to giving patients online access to clinical notes.…
Dr. Henry Feldman and co-authors explore the implications of giving patients on the hospital wards real time access to notes. This article discusses opportunities to use shared visit notes to partner with patients and their caregivers, at the bedside and after discharge. An early view of, “OpenNotes: Hospitalists’ Challenge and Opportunity,” published in the Journal…
By Jon Darer Recently, over 520 of our doctors began sharing their office visit notes with patients. All primary care doctors and general pediatricians, and selected physicians within pediatric subspecialties, dermatology, endocrinology, pulmonology, nephrology, rheumatology, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, neurosurgery, and women’s health—including obstetrics and gynecology and gynecologic oncology—are participating in OpenNotes. Read Dr Darer’s…
By Cindy Atoji Keene What is the doctor scribbling down in the chart? Many patients have probably wished they could sneak a peak into their medical records. Being able to do so is like a proverbial shot in the arm, said physician Tom Delbanco and Jan Walker, founders of OpenNotes at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.…
May 16, 2013 – For most people, adolescence is a time marked by struggle: the lure of adulthood leads to the fight for emancipation from a parent’s control, and from the condemnation or disappointment of authority figures while they explore their own emerging sense of self. Physicians have long been told to be neutral and objective when…
