Healthcare Innovation March 23, 2021
Sharing in-patient clinical notes requires larger change management effort than ambulatory care notes, says Brian Clay, M.D., chief medical information officer at UC San Diego Health
The 21st Century Cures Act’s information blocking provisions require all clinical notes to be shared with patients beginning April 5, with few exceptions. Brian Clay, M.D., a hospitalist and chief medical information officer at UC San Diego Health (UCSD), has some suggestions after leading his organization’s roll-out of ambulatory open notes in May 2018 and inpatient open notes in the fall of 2020.
Speaking during a March 23 meeting of the nonprofit OpenNotes organization, Clay said UCSD’s experience with sharing clinical notes in the ambulatory setting tracks closely with the experience of other...
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