{"id":20182,"date":"2017-11-29T07:07:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=20182"},"modified":"2017-11-29T07:23:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T12:23:31","slug":"transforming-the-culture-of-care-keynote-1-opennotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2017\/11\/transforming-the-culture-of-care-keynote-1-opennotes.html","title":{"rendered":"“Transforming the Culture of Care” Keynote 1: OpenNotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m way late in blogging this – too much travel and jet lag – but WOW was our Society’s first conference on October 25 a breakthrough event! Titled “\u201cParticipatory Medicine: Transforming the Culture of Care” (web page<\/a>), it produced a storm of attention on Twitter (our #SPM2017 hashtag had 15 million impressions in 48 hours, 1.1 million per hour during the event!) and a tremendous boost in awareness of our movement. Importantly, new relationships were formed at our event and our table at the\u00a0Connected Health Conference<\/a>, to which we were attached. It was a great and exhilarating outcome for our first-ever conference; our partnership with PCHAlliance<\/a> (Personal Connected Health Alliance) was highly effective for all involved.<\/p>\n

In the coming days we’ll be blogging the video of each of the keynote addresses by the truly outstanding speakers<\/a> who presented to our packed room. Here’s the first: fittingly, it’s OpenNotes – patients and providers sharing the work.<\/p>\n

The opening keynote: OpenNotes<\/h1>\n

The OpenNotes movement is about patients and providers sharing access to “visit notes” – the notes that clinicians type into the computer about patient visits. The movement has the perfect tagline:\u00a0“Patients and Doctors on the Same Page<\/a>.”\u00a0We’ve blogged about it since its beginning<\/a> in 2010, with dozens of posts<\/a> since then.<\/p>\n

Why is this important? Well, in 2012 the National Academy of Medicine wrote in\u00a0Best Care at Lower Cost\u00a0<\/em>that the future of healthcare requires “Patient-clinician partnerships [with] engaged, empowered patients.” And as SPM chair & co-founder Dr. Danny Sands often says, “How can patients participate if they can’t see what I see?”\u00a0That’s\u00a0<\/em>how important this is.<\/p>\n

In our opening keynote, the “father” of OpenNotes, Dr. Tom Delbanco (co-founder with Jan Walker RN MBA) and SPM member Liz Salmi @TheLizArmy share the roots of OpenNotes (going back to a 1998 conference in Salzburg I blogged about<\/a>), its present, and its future: an exhilarating new project, currently in study, called OurNotes<\/a>, in which\u00a0you and your clinician\u00a0co-author\u00a0<\/strong>the visit notes.<\/em> How’s\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>for participatory medicine? How’s\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>for transforming the culture of care?<\/p>\n