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…
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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…
