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OpenNotes


OpenNotes is an international movement dedicated to making health care more open and transparent by encouraging doctors, nurses, therapists, and other health care professionals to share visit notes with patients, facilitating patients' legal right to access to their own medical record.

Co-founded by Tom Delbanco and Jan Walker of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center OpenNotes began as a demonstration project involving 105 primary care doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Geisinger Health in rural Pennsylvania, and Harborview Medical Center, a safety net hospital in Seattle. 20,000 patients were invited to read their notes on each health system's online patient portal. The overwelmingly positive results of the study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation were published in 2012 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers reported that at the year's end, 99% of patients surveyed wanted to continue accessing their notes, 85% said open notes helped them feel more in control of their care, 70% of patients taking medications reported better adherence, and 85% of patients said the availability of open notes would affect their future choice of doctor. Doctors reported little change to workflow, and none chose to discontinue participation.


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