Through the new collaboration, which was announced during this year's AMIA Annual Symposium, OpenNotes and the American Medical Informatics Association want to give patients better access to their provider's clinical notes.
OpenNotes, once an academic experiment to see if physicians would accept patients viewing encounter notes and if patients could decipher the medicalese, is getting ready to scale, thanks to a large donation.
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Check out new Open Notes data and an infographic released just before the long Labor Day weekend.
What seems apparent from afar is that the CMIOs who make up the bulk of the AMDIS membership could do more to help remedy shortcomings in health interoperability — and some may not even realize it.
The initial success of the OpenNotes program is well-documented. As MedCity News reported, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine at the beginning of 2014 found widespread enthusiasm about the idea of opening unedited primary care clinician notes to patients at three test sites. After the first year of OpenNotes, 99 percent of the […]
How do you test the power of information on real people in real time? Facebook did it without consent with its mood experiment. Doctors and patients participating in the Open Notes projects are doing it in a completely transparent way. Dr. Leana Wen explains how she got started sharing her clinical notes with patients — […]
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The prospect of giving patients access to their doctors’ notes has been viewed with a mixture of enthusiasm and angst both by doctors and patients. Patients who might welcome more information may also have concerns over the privacy of that information. Alternatively, doctors who want greater adherence from patients may also be concerned about how […]