| 9/1/2021 |
Open patients and open researchers: Bridging the next decade of transparency in healthcare |
redhat.com |
... to find the common threads in their work, and exploring the potential for future open source innovation and building unexpected connections. "Common Connections: Healthcare Made Human" brings together Dr. Tom Delbanco, co-founder of OpenNotes , Liz Salmi, senior strategist of Research Dissemination for OpenNotes and Jan Walker, co-founder of OpenNotes who first met after appearing together in our film, " The Open Patient: Healing through sharing ." Five years after their ... |
| 8/22/2021 |
How medical notes will change if patients get to see them |
kevinmd.com |
... 8 types of notes spanning outpatient and inpatient arenas. If providers/organizations do not comply with this mandate, they will be subject to fines due to “information blocking.” This was borne from the OpenNotes movement – which declares itself to promote and study transparent communication in health care by sharing notes with clinicians and patients. They hypothesize that with increased patient access to notes – quality and safety of ... |
| 8/18/2021 |
Study: Older patients with chronic conditions benefit from reading medical appointment notes |
medicalxpress.com |
... portals. "Managing multiple chronic conditions and juggling various medications can be a time-consuming and frustrating experience for older patients and their care partners," said corresponding author Catherine M. DesRoches, DrPH, executive director of OpenNotes at BIDMC. "Findings from this study suggest that these patients and their care partners could receive important benefits from accessing their notes. Healthcare organizations should work to maximize patient engagement with this newly available health ... |
| 8/18/2021 |
Study: Older patients with chronic conditions benefit from reading medical appointment notes |
loire-net.tv |
... ÄúManaging multiple chronic conditions and juggling various medications can be a time-consuming and frustrating experience for older patients and their care partners,‚Äù said corresponding author Catherine M. DesRoches, DrPH, executive director of OpenNotes at BIDMC. ‚ÄúFindings from this study suggest that these patients and their care partners could receive important benefits from accessing their notes. Healthcare organizations should work to maximize patient engagement with this newly available health ... |
| 8/3/2021 |
Where Geisinger's data and informatics initiatives are headed |
Becker's Hospital Review |
... and now we focus a lot on population health management. We focus a lot on patient engagement as well. We were one of the first organizations to throw open the chart and promote using OpenNotes , [a communication platform]. We wondered: How do you make information available to people? How do you collect information back from patients and members of our health plan? How do you, in the current generation of ... |
| 4/8/2021 |
What Do Patients Find Judgmental or Offensive In Their Clinical Notes? | Healthcare IT Today |
healthcareittoday.com |
What Do Patients Find Judgmental or Offensive In Their Clinical Notes?As the 21st Century Cures Act goes into effect, one of the requirements is that give patients access to their clinical notes. Despite amazing work from the people at Open Notes , there are still a lot of fears about sharing clinical notes with patients. One of those fears is what patients will think and how they’ll be impacted ... |
| 3/27/2021 |
Comment on This Engineer Found His Own Brain Tumor Thanks To Open Medical Data by It is a Powerful Time to Reshape Healthcare Across the Planet - Fourth Industrial Revolution World |
singularityhub.com |
This Engineer Found His Own Brain Tumor Thanks To Open Medical Data By Aug 12, 2016 3,650Doctors often worry that giving patients too much information will be overwhelming or harmful. However, a study by OpenNotes is showing the exact opposite.After giving 20,000 patients access to doctor’s notes through the OpenNotes platform, patients reported feeling more in control, educated, and better at taking their medication.This may seem ... |
| 3/25/2021 |
Cancer survivor-turned-researcher advocates for patient access to medical notes |
healio.com |
... for patients to connect and share experiences with each other, and a boom in access to information about every aspect of our lives,” Salmi, who serves as senior strategist for research dissemination for OpenNotes , said in an interview with Healio. “Of course, I didn’t know this was happening at the time.”Inspired by new technology, Salmi said she decided to put her background in digital communications to work ... |
| 3/24/2021 |
Boosting Engagement with Care via Technology |
psychologytoday.com |
Boosting Engagement with Care via Technology Emerging, Existing, and Underutilized Technology Solutions You Can Use Today Posted Mar 24, 2021 TWEETThis blog post was co-authored with Charlotte Blease, Ph.D. , Keane Scholar at OpenNotes , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School.Remembering to take medications, stick with a therapy program, and follow a treatment plan can be hard for everyone. But we know that patients who are less ... |
| 1/6/2021 |
ONC Final Rules Sparked 10% Patient Data Access Increase in 2020 |
Patient Engagement HIT |
Patient Data Access News ONC Final Rules Sparked 10% Patient Data Access Increase in 2020 More than 54 million people can view their clinical notes, a massive increase in patient data access in 2020, OpenNotes says. 06, 2021 - By 2020’s end, over 50 million patients were able to view their clinical notes through the patient portal, an increase in patient data access of more than 10 million since the ... |
| 12/10/2020 |
OpenNotes site upgrades its literature search, to help authors and educators find relevant papers |
participatorymedicine.org |
Categories: medical records OpenNotes positive patterns trends & principlesAs regular readers know, our Society for Participatory Medicine has always been a strong advocate for the OpenNotes movement as a key enabler of patient power. As co-founder Dr. Danny Sands often says in his speeches, “How can patients participate if they can’t see what I see?” Not surprisingly, this site has often blogged about OpenNotes , starting with the ... |
| 11/5/2020 |
Accessing Open Notes to Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Disparities |
engagingpatients.org |
... that people with lower health literacy may be benefiting from access to clinical notes about their care as well. Sigall Bell, M.D.Sigall Bell, M.D., the Director of Patient Safety and Discovery for the OpenNotes research community, who led some of these studies, says, “These findings support greater efforts to engage all patients in health information access.”Patient-reported errorsMore than 23,000 patients across three large health systems ... |
| 10/20/2020 |
Validation of a brief scale to assess ambulatory patients perceptions of reading visit notes: a scale development study |
BMJ |
quality in health care Strengths and limitations of this study The OpenNotes patient benefit and risk scales were developed and evaluated in order to assess patient experiences and perceptions of reading their ambulatory visit notes. Three studies demonstrated improved construct validity and factorial invariance across patient subgroups in a modified version of the benefits questionnaire compared with the original survey version. The study was conducted using patient surveys in three ... |
| 10/9/2020 |
How Can Patients Get Medical Records from a Closed Medical Practice? |
blogspot.com |
... a doctor may not have had an EHR, as is the case with many independent practices as well as more rural settings. On September 26, 2020, a tweet from Cait DesRoches , Executive Director of OpenNotes , inquired about how a family member may get access to medical records from her physican’s practice that closed, triggering a robust conversation that led to the realization that patients and families are not well informed ... |
| 10/8/2020 |
How Can Patients Get Medical Records from a Closed Medical Practice? |
Wordpress.com |
... a doctor may not have had an EHR, as is the case with many independent practices as well as more rural settings. On September 26, 2020, a tweet from Cait DesRoches , Executive Director of OpenNotes , inquired about how a family member may get access to medical records from her physican’s practice that closed, triggering a robust conversation that led to the realization that patients and families are not well informed ... |
| 10/8/2020 |
DavidMartinez - How Can Patients Get Medical Records from a Closed Medical Practice? - How Can Patients Get Medical Records from a Closed... |
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... a doctor may not have had an EHR, as is the case with many independent practices as well as more rural settings. On September 26, 2020, a tweet from Cait DesRoches , Executive Director of OpenNotes , inquired about how a family member may get access to medical records from her physican’s practice that closed, triggering a robust conversation that led to the realization that patients and families are not well informed ... |
| 10/8/2020 |
How Can Patients Get Medical Records from a Closed Medical Practice? – The Health Care Blog |
thehealthcareblog.com |
... a doctor may not have had an EHR, as is the case with many independent practices as well as more rural settings. On September 26, 2020, a tweet from Cait DesRoches , Executive Director of OpenNotes , inquired about how a family member may get access to medical records from her physican’s practice that closed, triggering a robust conversation that led to the realization that patients and families are not well informed ... |
| 9/26/2020 |
“My doc’s practice closed. Need my chart. What do I do?” |
epatientdave.com |
By e-Patient Dave Leave a Comment “My doc’s practice closed. Need my chart. What do I do?” That’s a paraphrase of the starting tweet in a valuable thread today from a colleague in OpenNotes , Cait DesRoches. Here are the tweets. (I hope this all comes through on the blog; email subscribers, if necessary, click the headline to read this online.) Hey med records experts – I need a consult. My ... |
| 9/17/2020 |
Patients Interested in Secure Patient Data Access via Smartphone |
Patient Engagement HIT |
... of health data sharing and interoperability between disparate medical providers. Eighty-one percent of respondents said they support enabling patient data sharing between different clinicians and hospitals. READ MORE: 74% of Providers Approve of OpenNotes , Patient Data Access “Generally, respondents support sharing key information that federal interoperability policies don’t currently prioritize,” the researchers reported. “For example, more than two-thirds want their different doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers ... |
| 9/15/2020 |
OpenNotes to Focus on Non-English Speakers for Patient Portal Notes |
Patient Engagement HIT |
Patient Data Access News OpenNotes to Focus on Non-English Speakers for Patient Portal Notes A $50,000 grant will help OpenNotes develop tools to let providers collaborate on patient portal notes with patients who do not speak English. Source: Getty Images By September 15, 2020 - A new grant award is set to help OpenNotes , an organization advocating patient access to clinical notes, develop a tool to make it easier for ... |