The OpenNotes project received $10 million in new grants to expand patient access to clinician notes, according to MedPage Today.
Here are five things to know:
1. Founded in 2010, OpenNotes started as a research project to examine what would happen if patients could readily access their physician's visit notes.
2. In OpenNotes' experiment, 100 primary care physicians offered to open up their notes to 20,000 of their patients at three medical institutions: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Seattle-based Harborview Medical Center and Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
3. OpenNotes found 90 percent of patients and two-thirds of participating physicians said they thought open visit notes were a good idea.
4. However, more than 50 percent of physicians said opening their notes to patients would cause them to worry.
5. Since the experiment, OpenNotes has expanded to other institutions and medical specialties and to more than5 million patients.
"Our goal is basically to make fully transparent medical records the standard of care across the country," said Tom Delbanco, MD, OpenNotes co-founder, a primary care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess and a professor of medicine at Harvard University.
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