The expanding OpenNotes movement
Open and transparent communication involving all patients and clinicians…the OpenNotes mission for the next decade.
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Open and transparent communication involving all patients and clinicians…the OpenNotes mission for the next decade.
No longer are medical records hidden from patients. Everyone in the U.S. has won the right to review and use their clinicians’ notes. However, most people are unaware of how much they may benefit and don’t read them…and many still cannot access their medical records. For OpenNotes, our work has just begun!
I want to be a partner. I want to be on board with my health. I don’t want to be in the dark. I don’t want the doctors to have access to things I don’t. I want to know. –Patient quote
It really is much easier to show my family who are also my caregivers the information in the notes than to try and explain myself. I find the notes more accurate than my recollections, and they allow my family to understand what is actually going on with my health, not just what my memory decides to store. –Patient quote
Sometimes I forget what is said to me because it is emotional, and it is so nice to be able to go back and read exactly what my doctor was telling me. –Patient quote
Thanks to the generous support of forward-thinking institutions, foundations, individual philanthropists, and federal agencies, the next wave of OpenNotes is expanding rapidly.
We think of this as an OpenNotes “expanded universe” of research, implementation, and education that will stimulate and inform the next decade of transformation in clinician-patient-researcher relationships.
We're funded by grants, philanthropy, and supporters like you. Your entire tax-deductible donation will go to spreading the OpenNotes movement.