Tom Delbanco
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Dr. Dustin Ballard: Do Open Doctor Notes Work?
YOUR DOCTOR gives you a measured assessment of your physical condition. The language is just technical enough to be hard to follow, and the recommendations just oblique enough to seem unconvincing. But you wonder, what if my doctor told me what she really thought — that you were sedentary and overweight, for example. Would that improve your health? Is there any way a doc would want to share such an opinion? Read More »
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How to Get Patients to Take More Control of Their Medical Decisions
For years, people have been urged be more active in their own care. Now providers are giving them better tools to make that happen. They’re told they need to do more to monitor their chronic conditions. They are directed to be more active in deciding what treatments to have, or whether to treat a condition at all. That has proved easier said than done. For some people, it’s a matter of feeling intimidated: Better to let the doctors decide. Some are overwhelmed by the choices they have to make about their care, which seem to get more complex every year. At the same time, many doctors are reluctant to change old ways of working...
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Noted: Experimenting With Open Access Notes In Medicine
As health information technology continues to evolve, new and creative uses for electronic health records (EHRs) are beginning to develop. One such “potentially disruptive innovation” is the use of EHRs and patient portals to give patients access to the notes doctors prepare on patients after an office visit. Read More »
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Once they start sharing notes with patients, docs don't want to stop
...the practice of sharing physician notes is mired in conjecture about elongated visit times, numerous questions outside normal encounters, curtailed productivity, and the concern that doing so will either offend or unnecessarily worry patients. Read More »
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OpenNotes Introduces Advisory Board
OpenNotes is pleased to announce that ten extraordinary advocates for health care quality and improvement are the founding members of the OpenNotes Advisory Board. OpenNotes is a national movement that urges doctors, nurses and other health care providers to share the notes they write with the patients they care for...
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OpenNotes Now: How the Movement Will Change the Physician-Patient Relationship
Every movement needs an early, visionary leader, and the OpenNotes movement has been no exception—it’s got Tom Delbanco, M.D. Delbanco, who practiced as an internal medicine physician for 40 years, several years ago joined together with Jan Walker, R.N. to initiate a movement that is now sweeping the country and changing healthcare—and creating numerous implications for healthcare IT leaders in its wake...
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