Care partners are a critical, though informal, part of the healthcare system but are often not well supported by formal structures. OurNotes for Care Partners aims to identify care partners, assess their needs, and offer practical resources to alleviate stress and offer support through the Caregiver Intensity Index.
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Pilot sites to test concept of patients contributing to clinical notes
Four healthcare organizations have agreed to serve as pilot sites for OurNotes, an initiative aimed at encouraging patients …
A New Chapter in Patient-Centered Care: Sharing the Medical Note?
The 21st century has ushered in a distinct emphasis on patient-centered care in allopathic medicine, as manifested by the increasing implementation of patient-centered medical homes and the frequent use of patient-centeredness in guidelines, health systems, and insurance language (1–5). The overall goal of this movement is to improve communication between physicians and patients, ultimately increasing patients’ engagement in care and improving the shared decision-making process, and thereby increasing their proclivity to follow their physicians’ advice. The costs attributed to nonadherence are staggering, estimated at $290 billion for medication nonadherence alone (6). Efforts to improve this situation are clearly warranted.
The Next Step for OpenNotes Is OurNotes
LOS ANGELES & BOSTON – The OpenNotes movement is rapidly spreading across the country, with nearly 20 million patients now invited to read online the notes their doctors …
Health Data Management: Online Initiative Engages Patients by Sharing Physician Notes
More than 5 million patients nationwide now have electronic access to their clinicians’ visit notes through an effort that allows them to read these medical notes online after an appointment. The use of technology to better engage patients in their own care is at the heart of OpenNotes, according to John Mafi, M.D., an internal…
HealthIT Security: BIDMC Developing Interactive, Secure Health Data Program
Last week, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) received a $450,000 grant from The Commonwealth Fund to develop an interactive, yet still secure health data program. Specifically, BIDMC will be working with OurNotes, a tool that gives patients the opportunity to contribute to their own EMRs. OurNotes is an extension of OpenNotes, which BIDMC has…
Medscape: OurNotes Project to Explore Patient-Generated EHR Data
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the pilot sites for the successful OpenNotes project, is launching a study called OurNotes to test the concept of having patients add to and update their own electronic medical records. Using a $450,000 grant from the Commonwealth Fund, the medical center will collaborate with its…
mobihealthnews: Beth Israel pilot to let patients add notes to medical records
Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center received a $450,000 grant from The Commonwealth Fund this week to develop a program called OurNotes that allows patients to contribute to their medical records. The program is an extension of the well-known OpenNotes initiative and will include collaboration with a handful of other providers across the country. “This is really…
EHRIntelligence: Co-Authored EHR Notes to Redefine Patient Engagement
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, (BIDMC), a leader in the OpenNotes movement, is taking patient engagement one step further with a new grant that will explore the notion of letting patients actively contribute to their EHR documentation. With a $450,000 grant from The Commonwealth Fund, BIDMC and a team of partner organizations will develop OurNotes…
Society for Participatory Medicine: From OpenNotes to OurNotes: New project heads toward *real* participatory medicine
I’m beyond thrilled. Way beyond thrilled. This is going to take some figuring out, but is this what we’ve been striving toward, or what?? For years we’ve written here about the OpenNotes study (OpenNotes.org), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which established that when patients can read their doctors’ unedited visit notes – the hairy detailed medicalese…
