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, ...

I don’t think people should have to go through 18 years of brain cancer to understand their own health records,” writes Liz Salmi.

OpenNotes, a national initiative to make physician and clinician notes accessible for patients, has received a total of $10 million in expansion grants from the Cambria Health Foundation, the Gordon ...

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 ...

Started in 2010, OpenNotes is an initiative committed to spreading the availability of patient visit notes. Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, AMIA is a nonprofit organization that aids informatics ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even the most routine visit to the doctor’s office can cause many people to worry, much less managing a serious chronic health condition. Oftentimes this nervousness combined with complicated ...

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 ...