We look at the evolution and future of OpenNotes — from the impact it has had on patient engagement, medication adherence, and physician workflows to the technological challenges of implementing a truly vendor-agnostic tool. By @JennHIStalk Six years ago, the notion that patients could have electronic access to their doctor’s notes was almost unheard of.…
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RWJF Blog: The Next Phase of the OpenNotes Movement
What happens when patients gain access to the notes their doctors and nurses take during a visit? A culture shift with empowered and motivated patients at the center. In December I was proud to announce an exciting partnership with three other foundations—the Cambia Health Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Peterson Center on…
ePatients.net: 50 million more patients to get OpenNotes! Huge win for empowered partnership!
Big news: a multi-foundation $10 million grant will spread OpenNotes access to fifty million more patients! Nearly 20% of America will have full access to their providers’ visit notes, so they can review them from anywhere! Regular readers know we’ve always been loud fans of the OpenNotes project. Initially funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation…
MedCitynews: $10M infusion to allow OpenNotes to reach 50 million people
OpenNotes, once an academic experiment to see if physicians would accept patients viewing encounter notes and if patients could decipher the medicalese, is getting ready to scale. Tuesday, four charitable foundations announced that they together would contribute $10 million so 50 million Americans can gain electronic access to their visit notes over the next three years. That is…
HealthITAnalytics: 50M Patients Will Access Open EHR Notes with New Partnership
“Opening the doctor’s black box breaks down traditional barriers and provides a foundation for all kinds of exciting innovations in health care.” Fifty million patients across the nation will soon have access to more of their electronic health record information thanks to a $10 million joint initiative between the Cambia Health Foundation, Gordon and Betty…
HITConsultant: OpenNotes Pulls In $10M to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50M Patients
Cambia Health Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Peterson Center on Healthcare, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are teaming up to jointly fund the three-year, $10M expansion of the OpenNotes movement. The funding will be used to accelerate access to clinical notes to 50 million patients nationwide. For the next three years, the new $10M…
HealthCareInformatics: OpenNotes Movement Gets $10M in Funding for Expansion
Continuing the progress of the OpenNotes movement, four institutions have jointly announced $10 million in new funding to spread access to clinical notes to 50 million patients nationwide. The practice of sharing visit notes more readily began with the OpenNotes yearlong pilot in 2010. At the end of a year, those who read their notes…
Foundations Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients Nationwide
Four foundations jointly fund three-year, $10 million expansion of the OpenNotes movement BOSTON—Cambia Health Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Peterson Center on Healthcare, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today jointly announced $10 million in new funding to spread access to clinical notes to 50 million patients nationwide. OpenNotes is a national initiative that…
