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6/19/2009 (12:12:57pm)Tags: primary care patientsComments: (2)

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,has launched a pilot program that would allow patients to see notes written about them by their doctors.

Funded with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the "open notes" project will enable about 100 doctors at the hospital and two other sites will allow 25,000 to 35,000 patients to read their physicians' notes for a year as part of their online medical record.

To learn more, please check out this Boston Globe story.

Comments

  • It is about time we formally do this. Have been sharing my notes with patients long before we went digital and have had nothing but good come of this. Forces accuracy, deliberateness and use of English as opposed to medical speak. Only downside is some loss of productivity but as we begin to emphasize quality we do need to rethink productivity.

    by David Voran on Friday, July 17, 2009 at 5:09:11 pm

  • Patients should have the option of either communicating eltronically with their doctors or speaking to them face to face. Iperosnally don't want my personal notes shared with anyone except for my doctor.; I like to speak to him face to face, and to recieve a returned call. Electronics should not be "imposed" on either patient or doctor. Electronics should not be asubstitue for the doctor. There is no longer an "intimacy" if you will, between patient /doctor now as was 15-20 years ago. It' is very sad. Wake up people! have we all become so lazy as not to verbalize. ? This is a disgrace and is not human. No wonder so many relationships ,be they any type, are eroding.

    by The computer vs. Doctor? Not f on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 11:52:51 pm

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