OpenNotes
January 30, 2013 | Grantee
Enabling patients to see their doctors' visit notes is a simple idea that can transform the way patients engage with their health.
Patient-centered Care/Family-centered Care
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Geisinger Gives Patients Access to Doctors’ Notes
May 8, 2013 | News Release
More than 100,000 Geisinger Health System patients will have access to their doctors’ notes for the first time.
500+ Geisinger Doctors Adopt OpenNotes
May 8, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Geisinger Health System, one of the nation’s premier health systems, is taking an important step to expand OpenNotes.
An Effort to Spread Decision Aids In Five California Primary Care Practices Yielded Low Distribution, Highlighting Hurdles
February 1, 2013 | Journal Article
This study explored the distribution of decision aids—an important first step toward patient engagement, but one that cannot be equated with actual use of the aids.
The Imperative to Promote Collaborative Consumer Engagement
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Achieving a meaningful definition and shared understanding of consumer engagement is a critical step in making real progress as the nation works to transform its health care system to make care more efficient, affordable, effective, and patient-cent ...
Why the VA Embraces OpenNotes
April 16, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
A longtime champion of open access and transparency discusses how the VA is handling OpenNotes and what it took to get everyone on board.
‘Patient-Centered’ Medicine and Health Care Reform: Optimistic Visions Without A Coherent Blueprint
April 8, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Patient-centeredness means many things to many different people, but at its core are issues of shared decision-making and balancing how much the patient should really be in the driver’s seat.
Identifying Barriers to Patient Engagement
March 22, 2013 | Story
Facilitating shared decision-making between patients and physicians is harder than it sounds, but RWJF Scholar urges health care community not to abandon the goal.
A Patient's View of OpenNotes
October 2, 2012 | Journal Article
The authors discuss the positive outcomes from a year-long experimental study, OpenNotes, where patients could access their doctor’s notes.
Pushing the Envelope of Electronic Patient Portals to Engage Patients
October 2, 2012 | Journal Article
This editorial discusses OpenNotes, an experiment where patients were allowed to access their primary care providers’ electronic notes via patient portals.