By Pamela Lewis Dolan, December 31, 2012 “Demand is growing for patient engagement, as the health care landscape shifts toward more shared decision-making. As more health care organizations adopt technology such as electronic health records and patient portals, meeting those expectations has become easier.” Read the full article here.
OpenNotes in the Media
WSJ: Ten Ways Patients Get Treated Better
By Laura Landro, December 18, 2012 Health-care innovations aren’t limited to drugs and devices. Experts increasingly are adopting new ways to treat patients that studies show are better at healing the sick, preventing disease, improving patients’ quality of life and lowering costs. Here are 10 innovations that took root in 2012 and are changing the…
Engaging patients through EHR access, open notes
December 10, 2012 – You’ve heard the old adage that records are made to be broken. How about a new one: Records are made to be shared. Did you ever see that episode of “Seinfeld” where Elaine goes to great lengths (and beyond) to see what her doctor is writing about her in her medical chart? Well, it’s funny…
Forbes: Opening Doctor’s Notes: A Kumbaya Moment for R’s & D’s?
By Dave Chase, November 26, 2012 Conservatives would love the notion in Open Notes of personal responsibility…. In turn, Progressives would love the notion of transparency and access inherent in Open Notes. Read more here.
American Academy of Family Physicians Opinion: Why I Let My Patients See My Notes
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has dedicated $1.5 million to find out whether giving 25,000 patients access to the notes written by their 100 primary care physicians is a good thing. I can offer some perspective on this subject – for free – based on around 125,000 patient encounters over 25 years by one primary care…
WIHI Broadcast of Open Notes
Date: November 1, 2012 Featuring: Tom Delbanco, MD, Richard and Florence Koplow–James Tullis Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School Robert D. Harrington, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Washington; Medical Director, Harborview Medical Center HIV clinic; Associate Section Chief of Infectious Diseases, Harborview Medical Center Richard Martin, MD, FAAFP, Department Director of Community Practice Service…
Fox: Sharing the Doctor’s Note: Win for Patients and Physicians
By Barbara Mannino, October 25, 2012 Quick: when was your last tetanus shot? What was the date of your last surgery? What medications and dosage are you taking? Does cancer run in the family? It can be hard to accurately remember your entire medical history, but thankfully our medical records, including doctor’s office-visit notes, provide…
CBS: Doctors Begin Sharing Notes With Patients
BOSTON (CBS) — It’s a simple idea that could transform health care. Doctors are now sharing their notes with patients and some say it started in Boston. “It’s a way of getting people really actively involved in their health care, which is so vital to how they do whether they are healthy or whether they are…
Consumer Reports: Patient access to their doctor’s notes leads to better care, study finds
Are you interested in reading the medical notes your doctor writes about you? Some ten thousand patients around the country recently had that chance. And both they, and their doctors, said it led to better care. More than 100 doctors in Boston, Seattle, and Danville, Pa., participated in the study, called OpenNotes, which was published…
Forbes: Historic Day in Opening Doctor’s Notes
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher (1788 – 1860) The transition from “Open Notes” being a fringe concept to being self-evident is rapidly taking place catalyzed by a recently released study on Open Notes.…
