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Better access to data means the same, as the Open Notes study found.
The Open Notes study involving 105 US doctors and published in 2012 found that 87% of patients allowed to look at their doctor's notes did so at least once.
This summer, researchers have begun the largest study to date of open access, aptly named Open Notes, involving over 100 primary care physicians and approximately 25,000 patients from three health care centers — the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., and the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Over the course of the yearlong study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Open Notes investigators hope to analyze the expectations and experiences of patients and physicians, as well as examine the number of additional phone calls, e-mail messages and visits that may arise as a result of more patients viewing their doctors' notes.
But such candour may become a thing of the past as more hospitals and clinics make doctors' notes available to patients and their guardians.The trailblazers see open notes as a way to engage patients in their treatment, and to keep their other carers informed.
How eager are you to open notes that look like they might be spam, or to decode messages that don't display properly?
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But if copying and pasting text into an open note seems too slow, a keyboard shortcut that works in programs like Safari can speed things up.
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