Can the simple act of sharing a healthcare provider’s notes with a patient improve health outcomes? The OpenNotes movement
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Allina Health gives patients expanded access to their medical records
MINNEAPOLIS 05/04/2017 — To improve patient experience and care, Allina Health is the Twin Cities’ first health system to launch OpenNotes. After a visit to the doctor, when people are
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,…
