Organizations believe a fully transparent medical record is the right thing to do for patients LAKE ALMANOR, CA – The Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) and OpenNotes have announced a partnership to advance transparency in health care and enhance patient and clinician communication by inviting patients to read and engage with the…
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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…
Healthcare Informatics: How will the OpenNotes movement and consumerism help tip physician documentation reform into reality?
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,…
Healthcare Informatics: Transparency: Effective Patient Engagement
by Gabriel Perna Industry leading CMIOs converged at the first ever Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) Fall Symposium in Boston. One of the more interesting discussions at the event was centered on the usage and effectiveness of the OpenNotes initiative in engaging patients. The OpenNotes movement, for those who are unaware of…
