On Nov. 1, Columbia St. Mary’s Health System in Milwaukee became the first hospital in Wisconsin to implement OpenNotes. Beginning this month, some 1,100 multi-specialty doctors, nurse practitioners, and others who write visit notes will be sharing them with more than 300,000 patients via a secure online portal. Read the interview with Dr. Bruce McCarthy on…
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Healthcare IT News: Voice of the Patient
What happens when patients get involved? Better outcomes. In a Healthcare IT News cover story, transparency “pioneers” discuss why we need to give patients access to all their health information.
Healthcare IT News: Lawyer to docs: Share notes with patients
by Diana Manos There is a growing trend of physicians sharing their written notes with patients, and that’s not such a bad idea, says attorney and consultant David Harlow, principal at The Harlow Group, LLC. Harlow, who has a healthcare blog, says doctors should have no concerns with showing their notes to patients. “The patient has…
Healthcare Informatics: Transparency: Effective Patient Engagement
by Gabriel Perna Industry leading CMIOs converged at the first ever Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) Fall Symposium in Boston. One of the more interesting discussions at the event was centered on the usage and effectiveness of the OpenNotes initiative in engaging patients. The OpenNotes movement, for those who are unaware of…
JMIR: OpenNotes & Patient Privacy
By Ashley Gold As touted by some patient advocates and medical professionals who want to give patients access to their data and doctors’ notes, online access to medical records for patients has the potential to improve care. But there’s always potential privacy loss to worry about, and a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research on OpenNotes, an…
Boston Magazine: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Allows Online Access to Medical Notes
By Jenni Whalen Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) patients will now have online access to the notes that doctors and nurses make about them during care, the hospital announced last week. Through a program called OpenNotes, online records are now available for all primary care, orthopedics, and rehabilitation services patients from BIDMC. The medical…
BIDMC Expands Online Access to Clinician Notes
BOSTON – Online access to the notes doctors, nurses and other clinicians write is now available for all primary care, orthopedics and rehabilitation services patients at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The medical center plans to have outpatient notes from all specialties available by the end of 2013 (with a majority of departments and divisions…
Open Notes: A New Resource for Nurses
By Jan Walker RN, MBA, Suzanne Leveille RN, PhD, and Melissa Anselmo, MPH If we truly want patients to engage with clinicians about their health and care, we need to provide them with full and easy access to records that traditionally have been off limits. OpenNotes is a national movement that encourages clinicians—including nurses—to invite patients…
Peter Elias, MD: On the road to shared office visits
Nearly a year ago I embarked on an adventure that has been changing how I practice medicine. It is also changing how medicine feels. It began quite innocently. During an office visit to discuss a new diagnosis of a serious and chronic illness, we talked about problems inherent in the need to involve several physicians…
Fast Company: You Can Now Find Out What Your Doctor Is Writing Down In That File
by Michael Coren, MESc Patients, in theory, can access their own medical records. Yet a thicket of fees, institutional fear, and bureaucracy still stand between most patients and their medical charts. But a new project called OpenNotes suggests there is much to gain and little to fear by sharing medical records with patients as part of treatment. A…
