A Patient Perspective: Britta Bloomquist Britta Bloomquist is a patient activist and member of the PFCCpartners National HIT Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC), which focuses on patient portals and electronic medical records as an impartial group of patients and families who are committed to improving the ability of technology to support the patient-physician relationship.
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Charlotte Blease, PhD, OpenNotes Keane Scholar
We are pleased to welcome Charlotte Blease, PhD as our newest Keane OpenNotes Scholar. Her background is in philosophy and interdisciplinary health research. Her work focuses on the ethics and relational benefits of note sharing, including therapeutic benefits to patients. Charlotte is also interested in how access to visit notes empowers the most vulnerable health
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 record
Meet Maria Hagglund, Keane OpenNotes Scholar
OpenNotes is excited to welcome our first Keane OpenNotes Scholar, Maria Hagglund, PhD. Visiting us from Sweden, she is an associate professor in health informatics and a senior lecturer in implementation science at the Uppsala MedTech Science & Innovation Centre. Her research is focused on user-centered systems that support collaboration and patient empowerment. How did you first
New Health Systems Now Sharing Notes
We’re excited to welcome the NIH Clinical Center and OCHIN to the OpenNotes movement: The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, America’s research hospital, is located on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md. Through clinical research, clinician-investigators translate laboratory discoveries into better treatments, therapies and interventions to improve the nation’s health. Currently, there are about
A Note From Cait July 2019
A recent analysis of more than 20,000 patients reading clinicians’ notes provided exciting insights into how patients believe reading notes impacts their use of prescription medications. I was pleased to lead that study and publish it at the end of May in the Annals of Internal Medicine, accompanied by an editorial by David Blumenthal, MD
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
OpenNotes at the NIH Clinical Center
As of July 1, 2019, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD, joined 200 other health systems in the OpenNotes movement and started sharing clinical notes with their patients. At the NIH, the practice is being adopted widely and, in addition to sharing outpatient notes, notes written to document the course
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
Open Dialogue with Scott Fields on Implementing OpenNotes at OCHIN
We sat down with Dr. Scott Fields, Chief Medical Officer at OCHIN, a health information and innovation network serving over 500 organizations and 10,000 clinicians across the U.S. with the technology, research, and expertise to improve health care delivery and integration. Dr. Fields is responsible for providing clinical leadership and guidance to the development, implementation,
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