Liz Salmi, Senior Strategist Outreach and Communications, recently spoke about OpenNotes at the Beryl Institute in Southlake, TX. The Beryl Institute is the global community of practice dedicated to improving the patient experience through collaboration and shared knowledge. It produces a series of informational interviews for their Learning Bites Library. This video features Liz talking about…
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Visit Notes Can Help Patients and Clinicians Be Diagnostic Partners
Earlier this month, Charlotte Blease, PhD, a research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Sigall Bell, MD, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Patient Safety and Discovery at OpenNotes, published a new article on the role that patients’ access to visit notes might play in improving diagnostic…
OpenNotes in the News
OpenNotes Proposes HHS Create a ‘National Transparency Advisory Group’ Healthcare Innovation In its response to a proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, OpenNotes has recommended that HHS establish a “National Transparency Advisory Group” charged with advising HHS and monitoring the nation’s progress toward a fully transparent health care system. Cait…
Four New Health Systems Now Sharing Notes
We’re excited to welcome four new health systems to the OpenNotes movement: Holland Bloorview is a pediatric rehabilitation hospital in Toronto, Canada. We serve children and youth with disabilities and complex conditions through a number of inpatient and outpatient services. We have had our connect2care consumer health portal since late 2014 and share many clinical…
Trend Report: Patients as “Consumers”
Here are a few stories about patients as “consumers” that have piqued our interest: Study: Health Researchers Find Major Gaps in How Consumer-Facing Data Is Being Used In the March issue of Health Affairs, researchers find major gaps between the ideal of consumer-facing health data availability and its actual use. They urge providers to help…
New Funding Source for OpenNotes in New York State Aims to Empower Health Care Consumers
OpenNotes’ Tom Delbanco and Deb Wachenheim were on hand when the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) announced a new funding opportunity for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and other non-hospital health care settings in their state who want to spread OpenNotes adoption. The funding supports an effort to empower health care consumers by sharing…
New OpenNotes GIFs and Stickers
OpenNotes has partnered with Bare Tree Media to create a set of custom animated GIFs and iMessage stickers as part of a consumer outreach campaign. The OpenNotes ASK campaign aims to help people learn how to take full advantage of their open notes and suggests that patients: ACCESS their notes, SHARE notes when it might…
A Parent’s Perspective: Betsy Lowe on Accessing Notes
Betsy is a full-time mom of three children—ages 14, 11, and 9. Two of her children receive care at Boston Children’s Hospital and see two specialists regularly for chronic conditions as well as other specialists as needed. She prefers not to elaborate further on her children’s health out of respect for their privacy. Betsy began…
Spotlight on Homer Chin: A Pioneer in Health Care Technology
We sat down with Homer Chin, MD, MS, an electronic health record (EHR) expert at OpenNotes. He is an affiliate professor in the Department of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research at the Oregon Health and Science University and a member of the board of OCHIN, a not-for-profit organization that provides information and management services to…
Welcome Asante Health
This month we welcomed another health system, bringing us to 195 health systems sharing notes across the U.S. We’re excited to welcome Asante to the OpenNotes team. Asante is a local, community-owned and governed, not-for-profit organization that provides medical care to nearly 600,000 people in a nine-county area of Southern Oregon and Northern California. It…
