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Geisinger Health System

OpenNotes Project Gains Popularity

ORLANDO — The OpenNotes program that encourages providers to share their visit notes with patients is continuing to pick up steam, Homer Chin, MD, said here at the annual meeting of the

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Tagged With: Geisinger Health System, HIMSS17, Homer Chin, John Kravitz

HISTalk – OpenNotes: From Grassroots Effort to Nationwide Movement

We look at the evolution and future of OpenNotes — from the impact it has had on patient engagement, medication adherence, and physician workflows to the technological challenges of implementing a truly vendor-agnostic tool. By @JennHIStalk Six years ago, the notion that patients could have electronic access to their doctor’s notes was almost unheard of.…

Tagged With: Cambia Health Foundation, Geisinger Health System, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, HISTalk, Patient Empowerment, patient engagement, Peterson Center on Healthcare, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Patients learning to read their doctors’ notes: the importance of reminders

Objective To examine whether patients invited to review their clinicians’ notes continue to access them and to assess the impact of reminders on whether patients continued to view notes.

Materials and methods We followed OpenNotes trial participants for 2 years at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Geisinger Health System (GHS). Electronic invitations alerting patients to signed notes stopped at GHS after year 1, creating a natural experiment to assess the impact of reminders. We used generalized linear models to measure whether notes were viewed within 30 days of availability.

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Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Geisinger Health System, JAMIA, John Mafi, medical records, OpenNotes, patient access, Patient records

HealthIT Outcomes: Open Notes Improves Medication Adherence

A pilot project testing the effectiveness of the Open Notes program found it had a positive effect on medication adherence. According to a two-year study conducted by Geisinger Health System, the Open Notes program increased medication adherence in 5 percent of those who used it. “Providing patients access to their doctors’ notes and reminding them…

Tagged With: Eric Wright, Geisinger Health System, Health IT, Health IT Analytics, HealthIT Outcomes, medication adherence

U.S. News & World Report: Hospitals Are Moving (Slowly) to Electronic Medical Records

by Michael Schroeder Moving hospitals out of paper records and into seamless digital connectivity has been tougher than anyone but hard-core skeptics thought seven years ago, when the federal government began pouring billions of dollars into a push to make electronic medical records the universal standard. Computerization of health care data would quickly get patients’ health information where it needs to go, improving care…

Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, EHR, Geisinger Health System, Harborview Medical Center, Jan Walker, OpenNotes Pilot, Tom Delbanco, USNews

Digital Doctor (Practice Economics) – OpenNotes: Transparency in health care

Transparency, until recently, was rarely associated with health care. Not anymore. For better and sometimes worse, there is a revolutionary movement toward transparency in all facets of health care: transparency of costs, outcomes, quality, service, and reputation. Full transparency has now come to medical records in the form of OpenNotes. This is a patient-centered initiative…

Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Geisinger Health System, Harborview Medical Center, Healthcare Transparency, OpenNotes Pilot, patient engagement

USA Today: Doctors’ note-sharing helps patients fight health issues

During a recent physical, Jeff Gordon’s doctor told him he may be pre-diabetic. It was a quick mention, mixed in with a review of blood pressure numbers, other vital statistics like his heart rate, height and weight, and details about his prescription for cholesterol medication. Normally, Gordon, 70, a food broker who lives in Washington,…

Tagged With: Geisinger Health System, OpenNotes Pilot, Patient Empowerment, patient engagement, patient's story, Tom Delbanco, USA Today

Modern Healthcare: Geisinger using technology to increase patient engagement, CEO says

Geisinger Health System has invested in health information technology innovations to transform itself from a fragmented, hospital-centric model to one that actively courts patient involvement and access, CEO Dr. Glenn Steele, Jr. said during an industry talk Thursday. The Danville, Pa.-based system has invested in three key areas: virtual visits; patient access to healthcare data;…

Tagged With: Geisinger Health System, Health Information Technology, Healthcare Transparency, Modern Healthcare, patient engagement

Today’s Hospitalist: Is it time to open up your notes?

Patients have the right under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to access their entire medical chart, including clinicians’ progress notes. But most hospitals and practices view that requirement as a burden and have set up time, cost and logistical barriers to prevent patients from seeing and obtaining copies of their own…

Tagged With: Geisinger Health System, HIPAA, Interview, patient engagement

Partnering with Caregivers

by Jon Darer, MD, MPH, Chief Innovation Officer for the Division of Clinical Innovation for Geisinger Health System Recently, I attended a family caregiver summit in Washington, DC, sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, Booz Allen Hamilton, America’s Health Insurance Plans, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Intel-GE Care Innovations and UnitedHealthcare. The summit focused on an issue many of us…

Tagged With: care partners, Geisinger Health System, OpenNotes Pilot

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