VA opennotes: Exploring the experiences of early patient adopters with access to clinical notes

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 380-389

  Nazi, Kim M ^a   Turvey, Carolyn L ^b,c   Klein, Dawn M ^b,c   Hogan, Timothy P ^a,d   Woods, Susan S ^e,f  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e National eHealth QUERI Coordinating Center Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital eHealth Quality Enhancement Research Initiative ^*  (United States)

^f OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Communication; eHealth; Open notes; Patient portal; Veteran

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MIDDLE AGED; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCRIPTION; VERY ELDERLY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; GOVERNMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; PATIENT RIGHT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VETERAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCESS TO RECORDS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 84934274967     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-003144     Document Type: Article

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