By
e-Patient Dave
| September 4, 2013
Updated Sept. 6: I’d forgotten that as we posted in June, Cleveland Clinic announced open access too, adding a half million patients to the total. Big news is emerging from the OpenNotes® project: big institutions are making patient access to the medical record...
By
e-Patient Dave
| October 1, 2012
Regular readers know that we’ve long anticipated the result of the OpenNotes project. Our first post about it was in June 2010: “OpenNotes” project begins: what happens when patients can see the physician’s visit notes? It tied the issue all the way back to...
By
e-Patient Dave
| January 18, 2012
My annual physical is this Friday. Since my doctor and I were among the guinea pigs participants in the OpenNotes project, I just got this reminder email: Message Date/Time: 1/17/2012 10:00:06 AM Read Date/Time: 1/18/2012 7:19:08 AM From: OpenNotes, Study...
By
e-Patient Dave
| November 7, 2011
“Patients are overwhelmingly interested in gaining rapid access to their notes … doctors have not experienced significant disruptions to their work.” Hear hear! That’s from a new commentary published Monday in Modern Healthcare about the...
By
e-Patient Dave
| August 8, 2010
Next in our series on my experience with OpenNotes, a project sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio. This item has nothing to do with OpenNotes itself – it’s what I’m seeing now that I’ve started accessing my...
By
e-Patient Dave
| July 20, 2010
Participate in a public survey here at the OpenNotes project website: what do you think will happen when notes are made visible to patients? Five weeks ago we wrote about the start of the OpenNotes project, funded by Robert Wood Johnson Pioneer Portfolio. The...
By
e-Patient Dave
| June 15, 2010
It’s bonanza time for people intrigued with the OpenNotes project, which we mentioned Saturday. While looking for something else tonight, I ran across this, about OpenNotes, from December: “Concern that sharing information with patients may cause sustained...
By
e-Patient Dave
| June 12, 2010
The opening anecdote of the e-patient white paper tells of a patient who impersonated a doctor in 1994, to get his hands on an article about an operation he was about to have. He got busted. Two years later episode 139 of Seinfeld had something similar – Kramer...
By
Sue Woods
| October 29, 2018
On October 17th, the Society enjoyed their 2nd conference in Boston. Filling a larger room than last year, attendees – in person and virtual – enjoyed an impressive lineup of speakers. The passion in the room was palpable. Much more to come on that. A...
By
e-Patient Dave
| June 13, 2018
Email subscribers, I’m not sure the video below will come through to you – if it doesn’t, click the headline to come see it online. http://www.wtnh.com/ct-style/the-better-health-conference-helping-to-change-healthcare-as-we-know-it/1236774613 Last...
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