OpenNotes is an exciting 12-month study that will explore what will happen if primary care physicians share with patients, through an electronic medical record, the notes they write after an office visit. Our main goal is to find out if doctors and patients will want to continue using OpenNotes in the future.

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We also expect to learn about the impact that sharing visit notes may have on both patients and doctors. Our hope is that this project will improve communication between doctors and patients. It may also help patients become more actively involved in their healthcare.

OpenNotes will begin in early 2010 and will be conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA, and Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. We aim to recruit 75-130 primary care physicians and 15,000-25,000 patients among all three sites.

This project is funded through a generous grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

We will update this website as the OpenNotes study progresses. In the meantime, please explore the resources available or drop us a note of your own!