Whenever you get a checkup, or go to the ER, there’s a doctor or a nurse on hand, typing notes about your health into a computer.
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ALMANAC, Air Date 4/8/16
Watch Dr. Mark DePaolis’ 2 minute humorous piece on OpenNotes. You can view it here by clicking on the April 8th episode and fast forwarding to 27:52 minutes. Enjoy!
The open notes movement is now nationwide
Excerpt from an interview with Jon Hallberg, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, on Minnesota Public Radio. The next time you visit a doctor you may get to see everything they write about you. The record sharing philosophy is call “open notes.” Q: How is (open notes) different…
Author Reading: When Patients Teach
Listen to authors Sigall K. Bell, MD (from the OpenNotes team), and Stanley R. Vance Jr, MD, read their Teaching and Learning Moments essay, “When Patients Teach,” published in the April 2016 issue.
KUOW News – 94.9FM: When Doctors Invite Patients To Read Their Notes
Do you wonder what your doctor scribbles in the chart during your visit? Patients at Harborview Medical Center got to read their medical records, including their doctors’ detailed notes. For some, that access prompted them to become more involved in their health care. Linda Johnson, 67, had been relatively healthy all her adult life. She…
KPCC: Should Therapists Give Their Patients Access to Mental Health Notes?
At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, therapists are giving mental health patients access to therapy notes and charts, something patients commonly have access to in other fields. The doctors behind the project say that opening mental health records up to patients allows for a more participatory, active, and collaborative therapy practice. Critics argue…
Dr. Tom Delbanco on The Diane Rehm Show: New Efforts to Make Doctors’ Notes Easily Accessible to Patients
Listen to Dr. Tom Delbanco and a panel of clinicians and consumers discuss OpenNotes on the Diane Rehm Show. By law, most patients have the right to access their medical records. But obtaining them can be time-consuming and expensive. A growing number of health advocates are pushing to give patients easy electronic access to physicians’…
NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Should Patients See Their Doctors’ Notes?
More than 90 percent of patients in one survey said they’d want to know what doctors write in their charts. The majority of doctors, though, are reluctant to share their notes. Time’s Alice Park explains why patients want to see their charts — and why many physicians are wary of the idea. Listen to the…
WGBH: When Patients Read What Their Doctors Write
The woman was sitting on a gurney in the emergency room, and I was facing her, typing. I had just written about her abdominal pain when she posed a question I’d never been asked before: “May I take a look at what you’re writing?” At the time, I was a fourth-year medical resident in Boston.…
NPR: Doctors Don’t Agree On Letting Patients See Notes
Every time you see the doctor, he or she writes a note about the encounter for the record. Normally you never see it. A lot of what’s in that note is objective stuff about your blood pressure, weight and blood count. But often your doctor puts down subjective impressions. Did you seem down? Anxious? Angry?…
