Patients Contributing to Visit Notes: Mixed Methods Evaluation of OurNotes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Secure patient portals are widely available, and patients use them to view their electronic health records, including their clinical notes. We conducted experiments asking them to cogenerate notes with their clinicians, an intervention called OurNotes.

Objective

This study aims to assess patient and provider experiences and attitudes after 12 months of a pilot intervention.

Methods

Before scheduled primary care visits, patients were asked to submit a word-constrained, unstructured interval history and an agenda for what they would like to discuss at the visit. Using site-specific methods, their providers were invited to incorporate the submissions into notes documenting the visits. Sites served urban, suburban, and rural patients in primary care practices i

SUBMITTER: Walker J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8663611 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature