Reading Your Medical Notes

What to Consider When Reading Your Medical Notes

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The notes are there for a patient’s consideration and are optional, not required, reading. The main purpose of medical notes is to …

Reading Your Notes: FAQs for Patients - OpenNotes

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If your notes have medications listed, check to make sure what you are taking matches: your name, how much you take, and how often. Read your notes again between visits, especially if you need to …

Starting Monday, Patients Can Read Your Notes: 5 Key …

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OpenNotes Will Give Patients Electronic Access to …

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Your Patient Is Now Reading Your Note: Opportunities, …

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More than 6 million Americans can now read their doctors' notes via patient portals, and continued rapid growth is likely.1 Sharing notes with patients may yield …

Why You Should Take A Peek At Your Doctor’s Notes …

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Studies show that, indeed, reading your doctor’s notes can improve your health. DeSalvo lives in Metuchen, N.J., and works in health information technology. In the years after reading her...

Your Complete Guide to Writing Medical Notes That Will …

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What you need to know about the two types of notes… Standard Medical Notes: If the writer is a licensed professional, (i.e., physicians, physicians’ assistants, nurses, …

Why You Should Read Your Doctor’s Notes - Right as …

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This is where you’d go to read your notes. If you’re one of the thousands of patients in the UW Medicine system, you can access notes from your visits by logging into your eCare patient portal, clicking …

How to Decipher Your Medical Records: 12 Steps (with Pictures)

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When reading the progress notes (the reports generated after each visit by the physician who is in charge of your care), the simplest strategy to make your way …

When the Doctor’s Notes Hurt Your Feelings - The New York Times

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A report titled, “Your Patient Is Now Reading Your Note,” from researchers at the University of Washington and Harvard Medical School, advised doctors to think …