Beth Israel Deaconess Archives

Wall Street Journal on patient access: “Health-Care Providers Want Patients to Read Medical Records, Spot Errors”

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 10, 2014

Regular readers know that this blog has long advocated for patient access to, and engagement with, the medical record. In the past 2-3 years we’ve especially advocated for OpenNotes, in which patients can see their primary’s actual visit notes. At my...

Beth Israel Deaconess FAQ for their patients reading OpenNotes

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 6, 2013

Clarification 9/7: The FAQ posted below is of course authored by my hospital, not by me. Several people misunderstood so I edited this and the headline. On Wednesday I posted about the roll-out of OpenNotes to over a million patients and families. That post arose when...

The OpenNotes project goes wide: a million patients and families enabled by information!

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 4, 2013

Updated Sept. 6: I’d forgotten that as we posted in June, Cleveland Clinic announced open access too, adding a half million patients to the total. Big news is emerging from the OpenNotes® project: big institutions are making patient access to the medical record...

“Concern that sharing information with patients may cause sustained psychological distress is probably unfounded”

by e-Patient Dave | Dec 18, 2009

Cross-posted, with prolog, from the blog of Ted Eytan MD. Yesterday the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “WIHI” series hosted a terrific webcast on the Open Notes project that’s being funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (I need...

Making Healthcare Better through Participatory Medicine

by e-Patient Dave | Dec 10, 2009

There’s new validation that participatory medicine is an idea whose time has come: the co-chairs of the Society for Participatory Medicine (my primary physician Dr. Danny Sands and I) are on this year’s list of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better, an...