Patient Access to Online Visit Notes

Online Access to Doctors' Notes: Patient Concerns About Privacy

BACKGROUND Offering patients online access to medical records, including doctors' visit notes, holds considerable potential to improve care. However, patients may worry about loss of privacy when accessing personal health information through Internet-based patient portals. The OpenNotes study provided patients at three US health care institutions with online access to their primary care doctors...

Evaluating the impact of patients' online access to doctors' visit notes: designing and executing the OpenNotes project

BACKGROUND Providers and policymakers are pursuing strategies to increase patient engagement in health care. Increasingly, online sections of medical records are viewable by patients though seldom are clinicians' visit notes included. We designed a one-year multi-site trial of online patient accessible office visit notes, OpenNotes. We hypothesized that patients and primary care physicians (PCP...

Notes on a Visit to the Alexandra Hospital, Moscow

Implications of Direct Patient Online Access to Radiology Reports Through Patient Web Portals.

In an era of increasing health information transparency and informed decision making, more patients are being provided with direct online access to their medical records, including radiology reports, via web-based portals. Although radiologists' narrative reports have previously been the purview of referring physicians, patients are now reading these on their own. Many potential benefits may re...

VA OpenNotes: exploring the experiences of early patient adopters with access to clinical notes

OBJECTIVE To explore the experience of early patient adopters who accessed their clinical notes online using the Blue Button feature of the My HealtheVet portal. METHODS A web-based survey of VA patient portal users from June 22 to September 15, 2013. RESULTS 33.5% of respondents knew that clinical notes could be viewed, and nearly one in four (23.5%) said that they had viewed their notes a...