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Open Notes

Everyone on the Same Page

The OpenNotes movement promotes and examines the effects of fully transparent communication in health care. It helps patients, families, doctors, nurses, and therapists to prepare and share meaningful notes describing their interactions. We call these opennotes.

OpenNotes Quick Facts

53 million patients (as of October 2020) have gained ready access to their notes, and

50 states have practices that share notes (view map)

256 organizations are sharing notes

85 articles have been published by OpenNotes and their collaborators

FOR PATIENTS

OpenNotes for Patients

Reading Your Notes: FAQs

FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

OpenNotes for Health Professionals

Effects of OpenNotes: FAQs

OpenNotes provides free tools and resources that help
clinicians and health care systems share notes with patients.
OpenNotes is not software or a product. It’s a call to action.

The OpenNotes movement

The OpenNotes movement

Patients, clinicians and health care systems are
rapidly adopting opennotes. Here’s why:

  1. The OpenNotes mission
  2. Research findings
  3. See what’s happening

Sharing opennotes

Sharing opennotes

Practice makes perfect. Here are some resources
to help you get started.

  1. Get our Implementation Toolkit
  2. Get our Communications Toolkit
  3. Effects of OpenNotes: FAQs