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.
I’ll be the first to admit it, I was a bit put off when the receptionist said, “You need to call back the day you’d like to see the doctor.” With such short notice would I even get to see my new family doctor, or would I be triaged to one of his colleagues? Given…
More than 168,000 Geisinger Health System (GHS) patients have access to their doctors’ notes for the first time through the secure MyGeisinger online patient portal. Geisinger expanded OpenNotes in May 2013 due to the initiative’s overwhelming success. As of November 2013, the expansion of OpenNotes now includes more than 1,000 Geisinger clinicians, encompassing all of…
By Jan Walker, RN, MBA & Tom Delbanco, MD, MACP Despite periodic efforts over almost 5 decades, the idea of having patients review and contribute to their medical records has failed to take hold, even though such practice might engage patients more actively in maintaining their health and managing their care and might also improve…
Earlier this year, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) embraced OpenNotes, enabling more than 1 million veterans who currently have access to the VA personal health record to view or download their own medical notes along with their health record information via the My HealtheVet Blue Button. In a recently published study in the Journal of Medical…
By Leslie Kernisan, MD, MPH I support the fundamental tenets of OpenNotes and hope that all patients will have access to their notes within the next few years. To me the great overall value — both ethically and in terms of better health outcomes — of OpenNotes is a no-brainer. Read the full blog post…
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A recent publication by Sue Woods, MD and colleagues in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, investigated VA patient experiences with full electronic access to health records, including clinical notes. Patients overwhelmingly felt that having more, rather than less, of their health record information provided significant benefits. As one participating patient described: I can…
By Sam Warren, March 17, 2013 How many of you, outside of my own patients, regularly read your doctor’s Assessment and Plan? My guess is 20%, tops, and that is the problem. The traditional audience for the A&P is anther physician – the same doctor next appointment, the sub-specialist, or the ER doctor on staff…
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