OpenNotes was one of 17 organizations awarded a grant by The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) as part of its DxQI Seed Grant Program to improve the quality, accuracy…
News from OpenNotes
Journal of General Internal Medicine: Most patients understand visit notes, many have ideas for making notes more meaningful for patients
Boston, MA – In a new multisite study of patients who have experience reading clinician’s office visit notes (“open notes”), 96% reported understanding all or nearly all of the note…
JAMA Network Open: 1 out of 5 patients who read visit notes report finding mistakes
A new report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open suggests patients could play a critical role in identifying important errors in their medical records.
OpenNotes Celebrates New Federal Rule on Transparency for Patients
Yesterday, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released the program rule on Interoperability, Information Blocking, and ONC Health IT Certification.
OpenNotes Speaks on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Improve the Interoperability of Health Information
Philadelphia – Tom Delbanco, MD, MACP, has been awarded the John Phillips Memorial Award from the American College of
OpenNotes in the News August 2019
What We’re Saying Take Control of Your Care When You’re Seriously Sick, Liz Salmi on NPR Life Kit Podcast 40 Million Patients Strong: Dr. Tom Delbanco on Success of OpenNotes, Conversations on Healthcare Discussions on innovation, value highlight AHA executive forum, American Hospital Association What We’re Reading Perspective: Updating HIPAA for the electronic medical…
OpenNotes in the News July 2019
Top Stories: Podcast: What happens when a patient gets access to their WHOLE medical record – A conversation with Cait DesRoches, DrPH and Liz Salmi of Open Notes, Touch Point Media Survey: 62% of patients value access to web-based visit notes when choosing a new provider, Becker’s Health IT & CIO Report Why You Should…
More Than 40 Million Patients Can Access Their Clinicians’ Visit Notes Via Secure Portals at 200 Health Systems
OpenNotes announced today that more than 40 million patients using secure online patient portals can now access the notes
Minding Wellness PODCAST: Empowerment through Transparency with Cait DesRoches and Liz Salmi
Cait DesRoches, DrPH, and Liz Salmi were interviewed by Claudia Cometa for the “Minding Wellness” podcast. In this episode Liz and Cait talk about the mission and research behind OpenNotes and what they would like to see happen in health care. Listen to the episode here.
A Note From the Director: May 2019
Earlier this month, OpenNotes published exciting new research in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. We’ll tell you about the study which focused on patients at the same health systems as our pilot study did ten years ago, except this time note sharing was done across virtually all specialties. In other research news, doctors Charlotte…