Hägglund M, DesRoches C, Petersen C, et al., Patients’ access to health records, BMJ October 2019 doi: 10.1136/bmj.l5725
The international movement pushing to increase transparency by giving patients easy access to their health information parallels a broader shift in healthcare towards increased patient empowerment and participation. In the United States, the philanthropic OpenNotes initiative works to increase transparency by encouraging healthcare organisations to provide patients with access to notes in their electronic health record. It began in 2010 as a pilot that included 105 volunteer primary care providers and their 19 000 patients12 and has since spread throughout the US, with more than 200 organisations offering roughly 41 million patients access to their clinical notes.
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