- Partners HealthCare launches $100M, five-year digital health initiative focused on patient experience, clinical transformation, scaling research and development, and streamline hospital operations. - The digital health initiative will incubate innovative programs under development with the goal of expanding programs that show provider adoption and patient impact.Partners HealthCare today announced it has launched a five-year digital health initiative to improve the patient experience, boost
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OpenNotes
eClinicalWorks EHR Now Supports OpenNotes, Enabling Clinicians to Share Notes With Patients
eClinicalWorks, a provider of healthcare IT solutions has announced that it now supports OpenNotes, an international movement dedicated to making healthcare more open and transparent. With this announcement, over 130,000 providers using eClinicalWorks will have the ability to share notes with their patients using the eClinicalWorks Patient Portal, further fostering stronger patient-provider relationships.By supporting OpenNotes, the eClinicalWorks cloud-based solution will help to improve the
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AMDIS, OpenNotes Partner to Empower Patients Access to Clinical Notes
The Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) and OpenNotes, today announced a partnership to empower patients by by inviting patients to read and engage with the contents of their medical records. "These are doctors who are extremely savvy about technology and play a leadership role in advancing the use of technology," said Homer Chin, MD, who leads efforts to integrate health information technology further with OpenNotes. "While OpenNotes isn't a technology itself, notes
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CHIME, OpenNotes Team Up to Accelerate Data Sharing Between Patients & Providers
As part of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative, The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and OpenNotes are teaming up to accelerate data sharing between patients and providers. The collaboration with OpenNotes continues CHIME’s efforts to improve information exchange across the healthcare continuum, including advancing interoperability and ensuring the accuracy of patient identification. Neither a software program nor a new technology, OpenNotes is an
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OpenNotes Pulls In $10M to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50M Patients
Cambia Health Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Peterson Center on Healthcare, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are teaming up to jointly fund the three-year, $10M expansion of the OpenNotes movement. The funding will be used to accelerate access to clinical notes to 50 million patients nationwide. For the next three years, the new $10M funding will support OpenNotes’ ability to assist providers with adoption, to reach a wide range of consumers, and to evaluate the impact
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