A study, published in Psychiatric Services, examines how the movement to share clinician notes with patients, known as OpenNotes, affects mental health patients' trust in their providers. Researchers ...

OpenNotes, once an academic experiment to see if physicians would accept patients viewing encounter notes and if patients could decipher the medicalese, is getting ready to scale. Tuesday, four ...

OpenNotes has gained major momentum over the past decade in its efforts to convince providers that patients have the right to access the clinical notes in their electronic health records. This week, ...

The OpenNotes initiative, which is designed to give patients access to their physician’s notes, received the Data Liberator award at Health Datapalooza this week. The recognition highlights the work ...

The patient-physician relationship has long been uni-directional: The clinician determines a diagnosis and treatment plan, and the patient follows along, taking the clinician's word at face value. But ...

Seven years after it first launched, the OpenNotes program is now available to 19 million people. More than 80 organizations have made patients’ clinical notes available to them, in 47 states — all ...

Five years after being chosen as one of three pilot locations for the OpenNotes project, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is seeing encouraging returns from allowing patients access to their ...

Patients are encouraged to become engaged in their healthcare, but they can't do it unless providers give them the tools and information they need to actively participate. Everyone agrees that patient ...

LAKE ALMANOR, CA - The Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) and OpenNotes have announced a partnership to advance transparency in health care and enhance patient and ...

As more health systems are integrating OpenNotes into their facilities, the benefits of allowing patients to view their medical records are becoming clearer. One primary benefit is increased ...

The ability to view doctors’ notes electronically benefits not only the patients, but their care partners as well, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics ...

OpenNotes is “a national initiative working to give patients access to the visit notes written by their doctors, nurses, or other clinicians.” According to their website, three million patients now ...