There’s no place quite like Portland, Oregon. It’s creative, hip, progressive, and a foodie’s paradise. It needs to be all those things because it rains approximately 160 days each year. Portland’s uniqueness makes it an ideal spot to try out new ideas—even when it comes to medical records, which typically aren’t associated with terms such…
OpenNotes in the Media
The Washington Post Live – Cracking the Code: Optimizing Health Care
On June 14th at The Washington Post Live event “Cracking the Code: Optimizing Health Care”, lawmakers and health care professionals discussed an emerging health-care model that considers the value of care. They also debated the merits and dangers of health data for patients, industry and regulation. Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a longtime physician, argued that…
FierceHealthcare – Care coordination success stories: Empower nurses, OpenNotes, involve patients
Three organizations have had success with care coordination but with different approaches. […] Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital: OpenNotes Other providers have gone even further in coordinating care by involving the patients in the process. At Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, for example, the OB/GYN department has adopted the OpenNotes initiative, which allows patients to review…
Healthcare Informatics: Mount Sinai Health Joins OpenNotes
Initiative’s goal is to expand to 50 million patients within three years Mount Sinai Health System in New York has joined the OpenNotes movement, which allows patients electronic access to their provider’s notes in their medical records. The OpenNotes initiative, which started with 20,000 patients in 2010, now includes more than 5 million patients. Its…
ALMANAC, Air Date 4/8/16
Watch Dr. Mark DePaolis’ 2 minute humorous piece on OpenNotes. You can view it here by clicking on the April 8th episode and fast forwarding to 27:52 minutes. Enjoy!
The open notes movement is now nationwide
Excerpt from an interview with Jon Hallberg, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, on Minnesota Public Radio. The next time you visit a doctor you may get to see everything they write about you. The record sharing philosophy is call “open notes.” Q: How is (open notes) different…
Author Reading: When Patients Teach
Listen to authors Sigall K. Bell, MD (from the OpenNotes team), and Stanley R. Vance Jr, MD, read their Teaching and Learning Moments essay, “When Patients Teach,” published in the April 2016 issue.
Inside CHIME: Making the Case for OpenNotes – One Organization’s Success Story
At the University of Colorado Health, C.T. Lin, M.D., has been a passionate advocate for empowering patients through information. He spent more than a decade building support for a program that gives patients access to their records, including clinical notes. C.T. Lin, M.D., readily admits to being a bit naïve when tried to convince a…
NextAvenue: Doctors Are Slowly Opening Their Notes to Patients
A new program called OpenNotes helps patients be more engaged Ever wondered what your doctor is saying about you in all of those typed or scribbled notes? You may be able to find out soon, if you can’t already. OpenNotes is a national movement encouraging physicians to share medical records and the observations they record…
HISTalk – OpenNotes: From Grassroots Effort to Nationwide Movement
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.…
