National health care leaders, John Santa, MD, MPH, Homer Chin, MD, MS, and Amy Fellows, MPH, have joined the OpenNotes team. The three bring decades of expertise in information technology and population health to the expanding OpenNotes movement.

OpenNotes is a national initiative that urges health care institutions and clinicians to offer patients ready access to notes written by providers after a medical visit. Evidence shows that this type of transparency in health care leads to more active patient engagement, with patients reporting far more control of their own health and healthcare.

Read about it here.

Related: OpenNotes Presentation at HIMSS16: understanding the benefits of providing patients access to clinician notes in Las Vegas on March 1, 2016 by Homer Chin, MD, MPH and Amy Fellows, MS. To learn more click here.