OpenNotes, a program that began in 2010 and is designed to drive patient engagement by making physician notes readily available, has produced increasingly positive results. But that open access ...

In the health care industry, there is a common adage: If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. For a combination of legal, medical and billing reasons, doctors spend hours every day in front of ...

Most primary care providers see 15 to 20 patients a day, and many of them spend up to two hours a shift typing information into patient charts. It's a leading reason for physician burnout, said Dr.

Nine health systems and organizations in Washington and Oregon -- representing more than a million patients -- have pledged to open up physician notes to patients via electronic medical records by the ...

The call to action comes when patients see their physician's notes, says Jan Walker, a registered nurse and principal associate in medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard ...

11 AI scribes were tested against doctors in VA trial ...

New York City-based NYU Langone Health tested artificial intelligence to see how well it can convert physician notes into accurate lay language that improved patient understanding. The study, ...

Doctors say patient records hard to access for public and private clinicians Potential safety risk for patients with more operations being "outsourced" to private - union Health NZ says new system ...

Notes written about non-Hispanic Black patients had higher odds of containing terms undermining credibility and lower odds of supporting credibility compared with notes about White patients. HealthDay ...

The researchers found that clinician notes about Hispanic/Latino and non-Hispanic Black patients had similarly higher odds of containing terms undermining credibility and lower odds of supporting ...