Recent Coverage
KevinMD: Bringing OpenNotes to Geisinger
By Jon Darer Recently, over 520 of our doctors began sharing their office visit notes with patients. All primary care doctors and general pediatricians, and selected physicians within pediatric subspecialties, dermatology, endocrinology, pulmonology, nephrology, rheumatology, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, neurosurgery, and women’s health—including obstetrics and gynecology and gynecologic oncology—are participating in OpenNotes. Read Dr Darer’s [...]
Read MoreGlobe 100 Innovators: Doctor’s notes, demystified
By Cindy Atoji Keene What is the doctor scribbling down in the chart? Many patients have probably wished they could sneak a peak into their medical records. Being able to do so is like a proverbial shot in the arm, said physician Tom Delbanco and Jan Walker, founders of OpenNotes at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. [...]
Read MoreEHR open notes: Should parents have access to teens’ PHI?
As health records are increasingly shared online and EHR notes are made open to patients, teenagers under 18 may have another thing to rail against: the idea that their parents can see what they say to their doctor by logging on to a patient portal.
Read MoreHealthLeaders Media: Opening Up to Patients
The OpenNotes experience is being deployed at scale, and healthcare will never be the same.
Read MoreGeisinger Expands OpenNotes
More than 100,000 Geisinger Health System (GHS) patients will have access to their doctors’ notes for the first time through the secure MyGeisinger online patient portal when Geisinger expands OpenNotes in May due to the initiative’s overwhelming success. The expansion of OpenNotes will include more than 500 Geisinger physicians, encompassing all of primary care and [...]
Read MoreSIVAD Podcast Featuring Suzanne Leveille from OpenNotes
Suzanne Leveille from OpenNotes discusses the OpenNotes project on the SIVAD Podcast. Some highlights from the conversation include: the dramatic improvement between patient and doctor communications; how OpenNotes overcame potential push back and resistance from physicians; patients became more engaged in their personal health care; OpenNotes has been pleasantly surprised at the patient engagement; how [...]
Read MoreInterval Examination: Moving Toward OpenNotes
Contemporary trends toward increased transparency, accompanied by evolving health information technologies, provided an opportunity for us to conduct a study examining the effects on both patients and primary care physicians (PCPs) of inviting patients to read their doctors’ visit notes.
Read MoreRWJ Pioneer Blog: Why the VA Embraces OpenNotes
In a recently published study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), the VA’s Susan Woods, MD, MPH, a longtime champion of open access and transparency, examined patients’ views and experiences with reading their health records, including clinical notes. Woods discussed in an interview the power of open medical notes for patients and clinicians: Open notes [...]
Read MoreKevin MD: Should OpenNotes become the standard of care?
To me the great overall value — both ethically and in terms of better health outcomes — of OpenNotes is a no-brainer.
Read MoreRWJF Human Capital Blog: Shedding Light on OpenNotes
By Dr. Tom Delbanco In a recent blog post, Anjali Gopalan, MD, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar, weighed the pros and cons of OpenNotes—an effort to share clinicians’ notes with patients that is a stimulating collaboration among a large group of investigators, practitioners and patients in Boston; Danville, Pennsylvania; and Seattle. Dr. Gopalan made a number [...]
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