By Michael Millenson, February 26, 2013 The OpenNotes initiative declares quite simply that every notation the doctor makes during the patient’s visit can not only be seen by the patient, but commented upon. As the president of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston put it, “Everything that we have and know about you as…
Patient Empowerment
How Nurses Can Empower Patients Through Shared Notes
By Jan Walker & Suzanne Leveille of OpenNotes, January 2nd, 2012 As nurses, we’ve always been focused on the patient. Teaching patients about their health and advocating for patients are both incredibly important parts of the job. That’s why we got involved with OpenNotes-an initiative that invites patients to review the visit notes written by their…
Consumer Reports: Patient access to their doctor’s notes leads to better care, study finds
Are you interested in reading the medical notes your doctor writes about you? Some ten thousand patients around the country recently had that chance. And both they, and their doctors, said it led to better care. More than 100 doctors in Boston, Seattle, and Danville, Pa., participated in the study, called OpenNotes, which was published…
Annals of Internal Medicine: A Patient’s View of OpenNotes
When I was young, most doctors refused to tell terminal patients that nothing more could be done. They would lose hope, the rationalization went. Anxiety or depression would make them suffer more than ignorance. No one, of course, wants to be the messenger of death or face the slippery slope that candor can evoke—painful discussions…
Society for Participatory Medicine: OpenNotes: The results are in. GREAT news for patient engagement.
by Dave deBronkart, Regular readers know that we’ve long anticipated the result of the OpenNotes project. Our first post about it was in June 2010: “OpenNotes” project begins: what happens when patients can see the physician’s visit notes? It tied the issue all the way back to the birth of the Web, in 1994: The opening…
Ted Eytan, MD Blog: Now Reading: OpenNotes results are HERE
by Ted Eytan “little impact on doctors, 99% of patients recommended continuation” When I was visiting Group Health Cooperative in Seattle 2 weeks ago, I was involved in a conversation about releasing/sharing imaging results with patients online, as Group Health (@GroupHealth) has been doing for about a year (See: What Group Health Physicians are saying about…
SGIM Forum: OpenNotes Debate Part I, II & III
DEBATE: PART I– Benefits from Destroying the Black Box (or Are We Opening Pandora’s Box?) – Tom Delbanco, MD, and Jan Walker, RN, MBA Dr. Delbanco and Ms. Walker are on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. DEBATE: PART II– Patient Access to Electronic Records: Not Now – Douglas…
