{"id":19022,"date":"2016-08-09T18:14:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T22:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=19022"},"modified":"2016-08-10T17:21:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T21:21:03","slug":"opennotes-hits-ten-million-patient-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2016\/08\/opennotes-hits-ten-million-patient-level.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenNotes hits TEN MILLION patient level"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OpenNotes<\/a>As regular readers know, for years we’ve been blogging here about OpenNotes<\/a>, in which patients and their designated caregivers can read every word their clinicians write, so they can be more informed. The OpenNotes tagline,\u00a0“Doctors and patients on the same page,” is no joke: I was one of the subjects in the study, and I’ve blogged about visits with and without OpenNotes. With is better.<\/p>\n

I mean, would you hold any other kind of important meeting in life with no access to the records of what happened, what was decided, and who’s going to do what??
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\"open-notesThis is not just an outer-space crazy idea; in its major 2012 report Best Care at Lower Cost<\/em>, the Institute of Medicine wrote that “patient-clinician partnerships” with “engaged, empowered patients” are a cornerstone of the future of care. \u00a0How do we do that? Well, in his keynote speeches and grand rounds lectures, SPM co-chair Dr. Danny Sands says “How can patients participate if they can’t see what I see??”<\/p>\n

(And in my keynotes, I quote him<\/em>.:-))<\/p>\n

We blogged about the first million patients, and in December we blogged about the new move that will bring OpenNotes to fifty\u00a0<\/strong>million<\/a> in the coming years. (That’s 20% of American patients!) \u00a0Read Bill Siwicki’s\u00a0Healthcare IT News\u00a0piece<\/a>\u00a0on the 10 million patient milestone …\u00a0and watch this compelling video of two e-patients who altered the course of their own brain cancer cases(!!!) because\u00a0they\u00a0<\/em>had access to their data … so\u00a0they\u00a0<\/em>could help. (Update: see Liz Salmi’s comment below on how she does\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>have access to OpenNotes, and she wants it!)<\/p>\n