Something really interesting is happening these days around physician documentation. For years now, as patient care organizations have implemented electronic health records (EHRs), the shift from paper to electronic documentation has led to some unfortunate unintended consequences. Chief of these has been the phenomenon of “note bloat”—the electronic agglutination of physician notes and other data,…
OpenNotes in the Media
FierceHealthIT: OpenNotes helps to improve misunderstandings between docs, patients
One of the biggest benefits of the OpenNotes initiative has been clarification of misunderstandings between patients and clinicians, according to the Commonwealth Fund. A new post describes some of the findings of a study published last month by the organization for which chronic patients at OpenNotes facilities were interviewed, face-to-face, to determine the impact on…
Healthcare Informatics: Washington Debrief: CHIME Participates in WH Precision Medicine Event; 2016 MU Spec Sheets are Out
CHIME News: CHIME Partnership with OpenNotes Garners Attention from the White House Key Takeaways: CHIME Announces Partnership with OpenNotes. Why it Matters: On Thursday, February 25, CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell, participated in The White House Precision Medicine Initiative Summit. During the event, several speakers highlighted progress that’s been made during the first year…
PHYSICIANS PRACTICE: Physicians Sharing Notes with Patients is a Win-Win
Can sharing physician notes with patients have a positive effect on care? That is the basic question behind the OpenNotes movement, which sprung out of a three-city pilot program in Boston, Seattle, and rural Pennsylvania and has since gone on to give more than five million patients access to their medical records. Using a patient…
Healthcare Informatics: LIVE FROM HIMSS16: The University of Iowa’s Accountable Care Journey
Lessons abound in the experience of the University of Iowa Health Care’s journey into accountable care Moving any health system forward on the path to accountable care organization (AO) development is inevitably a complex venture; but larger numbers of integrated health systems, including academic medical center-anchored ones, are plunging in these days, with meaningful results.…
Journal of Participatory Medicine: How a Patient Was Motivated by Reading His Office Notes
Author’s Note: This is an entirely true story (I actually referred to my office notes as I wrote it), with only the patient’s name changed. I saw Joe (not his real name), a 63 year-old retired corporate manager, for his annual wellness visit. Joe has been my patient for 20 years. He has always been…
MEDPAGE TODAY: ‘No-Brainer’ to Share Notes With Patients
Discussing them with patients may enhance health outcomes Between 40% and 80% of what a healthcare provider tells patients is immediately forgotten, and half of what they do remember, they get wrong. “Those are two of the most depressing statistics I’ve ever heard,” said John Mafi, MD, a professor at the David Geffen School of…
CHIME, OpenNotes Partner to Spur Patient Engagement, Support Advances in Precision Medicine
ANN ARBOR, MI, February 25, 2016— The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and OpenNotes today unveiled a unique partnership to accelerate information sharing between patients and providers. The collaboration, which will help empower patients to become advocates in their care, was announced as part the Obama administration’s Precision Medicine Initiative Summit. “We are…
The White House FACT SHEET: Obama Administration Announces Key Actions to Accelerate Precision Medicine Initiative
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and OpenNotes announce a partnership to accelerate information sharing between patients and providers. Through the partnership, CHIME—an executive organization serving chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders—will work to raise awareness of OpenNotes and other patient-facing technologies to its membership of more than 1,800. OpenNotes…
OpenNotes at HIMSS16: understanding the benefits of providing patients access to clinician notes
What: Presented by Homer Chin, MD, MS, who leads OpenNotes’ efforts to integrate Health Information Technology, and Amy Fellows, MPH, whose focus is on Community Health Programs, with particular attention to individuals who are medically underserved , this session will discuss the significant benefits of providing patients access to clinician notes, as well as the impact…
