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Photo credit: (Gretchen Ertl/For The Washington Post) For years, the woman went to a Boston hospital to talk to a therapist about being depressed and overweight. The therapist, listening closely, asked questions and jotted down notes on a memo pad. Until recently, the 54-year-old woman didn’t know what her therapist was writing. Then, last […]
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Check out the OpenNotes toolkit The OpenNotes Toolkit by Steve Downs In writing about OpenNotes last summer, I argued that the practice of sharing clinicians’ notes with patients had moved beyond the question of whether it was a good idea (the landmark study published in Annals of Internal Medicine was pretty clear on that) to questions of how best to implement […]
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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 is addressing this issue by strengthening the patient-doctor partnership and giving their more than 300,000 patients secure online access to doctor’s notes after a visit. Called “OpenNotes,” the health care provider […]
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Along with the final results of the OpenNotes trial, an editorial by Michael Meltsner, AB, JD, Doctor of Laws (Hon) was published in the October 2nd issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. Meltsner was one of the 10,000 patient participants in OpenNotes. In his editorial he places the personal impact that a lack of transparency […]
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