Initiative’s goal is to expand to 50 million patients within three years Mount Sinai Health System in New York has joined the OpenNotes movement, which allows patients electronic access to their provider’s notes in their medical records. The OpenNotes initiative, which started with 20,000 patients in 2010, now includes more than 5 million patients. Its…
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Healthcare Informatics: Washington Debrief: CHIME Participates in WH Precision Medicine Event; 2016 MU Spec Sheets are Out
CHIME News: CHIME Partnership with OpenNotes Garners Attention from the White House Key Takeaways: CHIME Announces Partnership with OpenNotes. Why it Matters: On Thursday, February 25, CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell, participated in The White House Precision Medicine Initiative Summit. During the event, several speakers highlighted progress that’s been made during the first year…
Healthcare Informatics: LIVE FROM HIMSS16: The University of Iowa’s Accountable Care Journey
Lessons abound in the experience of the University of Iowa Health Care’s journey into accountable care Moving any health system forward on the path to accountable care organization (AO) development is inevitably a complex venture; but larger numbers of integrated health systems, including academic medical center-anchored ones, are plunging in these days, with meaningful results.…
HCI – The Results Are In: Recent OpenNotes Research Has Made Me a Believer
When I first started covering health IT three years ago, one of the things that interested me most was the OpenNotes movement, originally a 12-month pilot initiative which brought together 105 primary care doctors across three leading healthcare organizations—and more than 19,000 of their patients—to evaluate the impact on both patients and physicians of sharing…
