Transparency Through OpenNotes
The risks and rewards of inviting patients to review their medical records BOSTON – Technology has placed vast amounts of medical information literally a mouse click away. Yet what often may be central...
View ArticleDoctors Are Cautious, Patients Enthusiastic About Sharing Medical Notes
Study gauges baseline interest in three-site OpenNotes trial BOSTON – Patients are overwhelmingly interested in exploring the notes doctors write about them after an office visit, but doctors worry...
View ArticlePatients Feel More Control of Their Health When Doctors Share Notes
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-led study finds little impact on doctor workload from OpenNotes BOSTON – Patients with access to notes written by their doctors feel more in control of their care...
View ArticleGeisinger Gives Patients Access to Doctors’ Notes
Health system embraces OpenNotes® to get patients involved in care DANVILLE, Pa.—More than 100,000 Geisinger Health System (GHS) patients will have access to their doctors’ notes for the first time...
View ArticleColumbia St. Mary’s is First Wisconsin Health System to Launch Online Access...
Transforming patient care – one note at a time Milwaukee – When a patient is sick, tired or stressed during a doctor’s visit, they may forget what the doctor said or prescribed. Columbia St. Mary’s...
View ArticleMaking Mental Health Notes Available to Patients
BIDMC launches pilot, advocates for openness Date: 4/1/2014 BIDMC Contact: Kelly Lawman Phone: 617-667-7305 Email: klawman@bidmc.harvard.edu Writing for “A Piece of My Mind,” appearing April 2 in the...
View ArticleNorthwest patients to gain easy access to clinicians’ notes
Regional collaboration spurs first widespread adoption of the OpenNotes initiative Portland, Ore. – A unique regional collaboration among nine prominent health systems and medical groups in the...
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The OpenNotes Collaborative Receives the Inaugural John Q. Sherman Award
Orlando, FL, May 15, 2014—Today, winners of the inaugural John Q. Sherman Awards for Excellence in Patient Engagement were honored in award ceremonies at the 16th Annual NPSF Patient Safety Congress in...
View ArticleFoundations Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients...
Four foundations jointly fund three-year, $10 million expansion of the OpenNotes movement BOSTON—Cambia Health Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Peterson Center on Healthcare, and the...
View ArticleDuke Health is joining national Open Notes initiative
Duke University Health System has joined a growing national Open Notes initiative to improve patient-physician communication and support our ongoing work to promote patient-centered care. Beginning...
View ArticleOpenNotes at HIMSS16: understanding the benefits of providing patients access...
What: Presented by Homer Chin, MD, MS, who leads OpenNotes’ efforts to integrate Health Information Technology, and Amy Fellows, MPH, whose focus is on Community Health Programs, with particular...
View ArticlePrestigious Healthcare Experts Join OpenNotes Movement
Combined experience will help guide the spread of access to clinical notes to 50 million patients nationwide BOSTON, Feb. 24, 2016 – National health care leaders, John Santa, MD, MPH, Homer Chin,...
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CHIME, OpenNotes Partner to Spur Patient Engagement, Support Advances in...
ANN ARBOR, MI, February 25, 2016— The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and OpenNotes today unveiled a unique partnership to accelerate information sharing between...
View ArticleMount Sinai Health Joins OpenNotes
Initiative’s goal is to expand to 50 million patients within three years Mount Sinai Health System in New York has joined the OpenNotes movement, which allows patients electronic access to their...
View ArticleCatherine M. DesRoches, DrPH, Joins OpenNotes as Executive Director
Expertise on emerging trends in health care delivery will guide national dissemination efforts BOSTON – Prominent health policy and public health researcher, Catherine M. DesRoches, DrPH, is joining...
View ArticleOpenNotes Reaches 10 Million
Patients at VA and 50 institutions in 35 states can now read their medical notes online BOSTON – The OpenNotes movement is excited to share a milestone – 10 million Americans can now read their medical...
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