MobiHealth News October 25, 2017
Jonah Comstock

Seven years after it first launched, the OpenNotes programis now available to 19 million people. More than 80 organizations have made patients’ clinical notes available to them, in 47 states — all except Maine, Rhode Island, and Alabama.

At the first ever Society for Participatory Medicine conference, a co-located pre-conference event connected to the Connected Health Conference in Boston, OpenNotes co-director Dr. Tom Delbanco, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, shared some of the insights and challenges OpenNotes has encountered over the last seven years. Liz Salmi, senior multimedia communications manager at OpenNotes, also shared her patient story at the conference.

Salmi, a brain cancer survivor, discovered her patient notes on her own, after requesting her records from Kaiser...

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