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OpenNotes: Hospitalists’ challenge and opportunity

At a time of societal fascination both with transparency and the explosion of health information technologies, a growing number of hospitals are offering, or will soon offer patients and their family instantaneous access to their doctors’ and nurses’ notes. What will this new opportunity for patient engagement mean for the hospitalist? Today, state and federal government regulations either encourage or require healthcare providers to grant patients access to their clinical information. But despite the rules embedded in the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), patients often face time-consuming obstacles in their quest for access, and many providers view compliance as a burden.

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Tagged With: Jan Walker, OpenNotes, patient access, patient engagement, quality improvement healthcare, Tom Delbanco

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