OpenNotes Proposes That HHS Create ‘National Transparency Advisory Group’

Healthcare Innovation April 24, 2019
David Raths

Initiative also recommends that EHR vendors should be required to provide functionality to measure how many patients read clinical notes

In its response to a proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the OpenNotes initiative has recommended that HHS establish a “National Transparency Advisory Group” charged with advising HHS and monitoring the nation’s progress toward a fully transparent healthcare system.

In an April 24 interview with Healthcare Innovation, Cait DesRoches, executive director of the nonprofit Open Notes initiative, explained that making clinical notes available to patients is a vehicle for improving transparency in healthcare. The HHS rule proposes that clinical notes be included in an expanded set of data that must be exchanged electronically...