Offering patients online access to medical records, including doctors’ visit notes, holds considerable potential to improve care. However, patients may worry about loss of privacy when accessing personal health information through Internet-based patient portals. The OpenNotes study provided patients at three US health care institutions with online access to their primary care doctors’ notes and then collected survey data about their experiences, including their concerns about privacy before and after participation in the intervention.
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KevinMD: Bringing OpenNotes to Geisinger
By Jon Darer Recently, over 520 of our doctors began sharing their office visit notes with patients. All primary care doctors and general pediatricians, and selected physicians within pediatric subspecialties, dermatology, endocrinology, pulmonology, nephrology, rheumatology, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, neurosurgery, and women’s health—including obstetrics and gynecology and gynecologic oncology—are participating in OpenNotes. Read Dr Darer’s…
Geisinger Expands OpenNotes
More than 168,000 Geisinger Health System (GHS) patients have access to their doctors’ notes for the first time through the secure MyGeisinger online patient portal. Geisinger expanded OpenNotes in May 2013 due to the initiative’s overwhelming success. As of November 2013, the expansion of OpenNotes now includes more than 1,000 Geisinger clinicians, encompassing all of…
