OpenNotes Update: Using the Community Approach to Increase Participation

Homer Chin, MD, OpenNotes Provider Champion, and Amy Fellows, Executive Director at We Can Do Better. The Northwest OpenNotes Consortium was convened by the non-profit, non-partisan civic engagement organization We Can Do Better in 2013. There are now more than 1 million patients in Oregon and Southwest Washington that have access to their chart notes due to this community effort. These patients are from seven different organizations that have opened their notes and there are many more at the table with plans to do so in 2015. Dr. Chin and Amy share what they’ve learned about how the community approach is working with CMIOs of Health Systems in hopes of spreading the OpenNotes movement even further.