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.
Funded by PCORI, The CHRONICLE Trial will study audio recordings as method of sharing clinic visit information with older adults. The study is in partnership with OpenRecordings and OpenNotes.
Starting on October 6, 2022, the definition of electronic health information (EHI) in the 21st Century Cures Act expanded beyond the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Version 1 to all electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) that a patient has the right to access under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Read…
We stand with our partners in healthcare in condemning the Dobbs decision to deny people the basic human right to make choices about their own care.
In this webinar you’ll learn about a new initiative by OpenNotes and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health aiming to fix repair the gaps in health information technology for older adults. You will get a status update on a multi-site demonstration project serving a high proportion of older adults in Portland, OR, Rochester, NY, and Salt Lake City, UT. And, you will learn from a patient and physician/family care partner as they describe their lived experiences navigating proxy access.
Tom Delbanco, MD, and Catherine DesRoches, DrPH, Co-Founder and Executive Director respectively of OpenNotes, discuss common concerns and best practices when sharing clinical notes with patients.
DirectTrust— a nonprofit devoted to advancing interoperabilty in healthcare—has named OpenNotes as an Interoperability Hero for their work to foster and evaluate the spread and implementation of shared clinical notes (“open notes”), and advance healthcare transparency initiatives in the U.S. and overseas.
Patients having access to their visit notes is a big step in the right direction, but can co-generating notes – OurNotes — go even further in creating better transparency and collaboration between patients and clinicians?
At OpenNotes we study the ethical implications of sharing, or hiding, clinical notes. Our goal is to empower patients and clinicians by exploring how clinicians can optimize note sharing.
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