Patients are engaged and participate in their care when they can view their medical records.
The Issue:
With the increasing use of electronic health records (EHRs), patients have more access to their lab and medical records. What is less often seen by patients, however, are the notes doctors enter in the medical record. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded OpenNotes initiative sought to find out how patients would use and feel about open access to doctors’ notes. Others now are experimenting with OpenNotes and exploring how they might change doctors’ practices. More
