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
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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,
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
VIDEO: The Beryl Institute – Optimizing OpenNotes for Patient Engagement and Safety
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
Spotlight on Amy Fellows: Vulnerable Populations and Vendor Strategist at OpenNotes
We sat down with Amy Fellows, MPH, a Vulnerable Populations and Vendor Strategist at OpenNotes. Amy is also the Executive Director of We Can Do Better, a Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit with the mission to create opportunities for nonpartisan civic education and engagement, bringing people together who share the values of better health care and health
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
