During RWJF’s First Friday Hangout, we heard from a provider and a patient being honest about their experiences with OpenNotes. The conversation shouldn’t stop there. How can we as patients or providers continue to fight for greater health transparency? What is one thing your organization can do to make transparency in health care the norm…
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The Healthcare Blog: Opening the Care Conversation Through Open Notes
It’s a memory aid. It’s truth serum. Using it can transform relationships forever. These may sound like come-ons for the type of product typically hawked on late-night television. But in fact, they’re some of the things people are saying about OpenNotes. OpenNotes isn’t a product, but an idea: That the notes doctors and other clinicians write…
RWJF – First Friday Google+ Hangout: Improving Health Care Value Through OpenNotes
Please join the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) on May 1st from 12:15 p.m. – 1 p.m. ET for a First Friday Google+ Hangout on OpenNotes, an initiative that improves communication by giving patients direct access to their physicians’ notes about them. The initiative is one of multiple ways that RWJF is supporting greater transparency…
RWJF: Fast Company Names RWJF One of World’s 10 Most Innovative Not-For-Profits
Fast Company announced today that it named the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the largest U.S. foundation devoted to health, as one of the 10 most innovative not-for-profit organizations globally. The magazine’s annual list of the world’s most innovative companies recognizes established enterprises and rising newcomers alike for exemplifying the best in business and innovation;…
2014 RWJF Pioneering Ideas Podcast: What if? Shifting Perspectives to Change the World
RWJF’s Emmy Ganos talks to Tom Delbanco and Jan Walker of OpenNotes about the original spark that inspired them to create this national initiative, what they’ve learned as OpenNotes has spread to more and more hospitals and health systems, and where their pioneering work is heading next. Listen to the full podcast here!
OpenNotes: Putting Medical Record Transparency to the Test
Many health experts see “consumer engagement” as a key to improving quality and lowering costs. But how to get people to be more actively involved in their own care has vexed these same experts for years. Computers have unquestionably made things easier by enabling individuals, with a few clicks, to delve deeply into whatever health…
RWJF Blog: Dr. Bruce McCarthy of Columbia St. Mary’s on Adopting OpenNotes
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…
Pioneer Blog: Moving Forward with OpenNotes
By Steve Downs As Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) begins its institutional rollout of OpenNotes, it’s becoming clear that we’ve moved into a new phase of the diffusion of this innovation. I’ve been in discussions with Tom Delbanco and Jan Walker about the idea of opening up physician notes to patients since 2008, when it…
Open Health News: VHA Joins ‘OpenNotes’ Effort for EHR & PHR Systems
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has joined the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation’s ‘OpenNotes’ initiative as a partner along with other healthcare provider organizations – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Geisinger Health System, MD Anderson Cancer Center . These organizations are all fully committed to giving patients online access to clinical notes.…
RWJ Pioneer Blog: Why the VA Embraces OpenNotes
Earlier this year, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) embraced OpenNotes, enabling more than 1 million veterans who currently have access to the VA personal health record to view or download their own medical notes along with their health record information via the My HealtheVet Blue Button. In a recently published study in the Journal of Medical…
