Why are phrases like "non-compliant" or "chief complaint" still widely used in clinical documentation? @craigmjoseph.bsky.social of Nordic Global interviews Anita Vanka, MD and Robert Stern, MD, Ed.M on the future of patient-centered documentation. buff.ly/oxc0BdN #Medsky #informatics #healthIT

Interview with Anita Vanka, MD and Robert Stern, MD [Podcast]

Discover how OpenNotes is revolutionizing medical documentation by enhancing patient understanding, trust, and adherence, as discussed by healthcare experts on the Designing for Health podcast.

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Very excited about our @jama.com commentary about cancer diagnoses and health records transparency in the busy age of modern medicine. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... cc @cait-desroches.bsky.social & @opennotes.org

Patient Choice, Busy Health Systems, and Health Information Access

The 2016 21st Century Cures Act advanced US national efforts to improve interoperability of electronic health information and strengthen patient engagement. The Cures Act is the most recent step in mo...

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Mental health notes are open in Canada! 🇨🇦 Check out the 'Nothing About Me, Without Me (including My Health Record)' project from @camhnews.bsky.social: buff.ly/Up5qOhS Congratulations to @gstrudrn.bsky.social and team! #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #EndTheStigma #MHAM2026 #MedSky

Why are phrases like "non-compliant" or "chief complaint" still widely used in clinical documentation? @craigmjoseph.bsky.social of Nordic Global interviews Anita Vanka, MD and Robert Stern, MD, Ed.M on the future of patient-centered documentation. buff.ly/oxc0BdN #Medsky #informatics #healthIT

Interview with Anita Vanka, MD and Robert Stern, MD [Podcast]

Discover how OpenNotes is revolutionizing medical documentation by enhancing patient understanding, trust, and adherence, as discussed by healthcare experts on the Designing for Health podcast.

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Patients should not feel judged or offended by open notes. An @annfammed.bsky.social article calls on educators to train students to write clinical notes that are both accurate and respectful. Read how: www.annfammed.org/content/24/1... What do you think would make open notes better? #Medsky

Educating Medical Trainees About Patient-Centered Documentation in the Time of Open Notes

Communication and clinical documentation are core competencies of medical education. With the adoption of open notes, patients have direct access to what clinicians document in their electronic…

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This National #HealthcareDecisionsDay, we celebrate the human touch needed in #AdvanceCarePlanning. AI is good at recognizing patterns and making predictions, but it can't replace the human skills of a doctor. Read more from @adamrodmanmd.bsky.social buff.ly/ok5sQr2 #PatientsUseAI #NHDD #MedSky

A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For?

Many physicians find chatbots threatening, but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up on medicine.

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Are AI chatbots any better than an internet search for health info? Not according to an article in Nature Medicine. Half of the time, people are making mistakes in their interpretation of AI chatbots. What do you think is causing these mistakes? Find out in the research: buff.ly/ugbnp1S

Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study

In a randomized controlled study involving 1,298 participants from a general sample, performance of humans when assisted by a large language model (LLM) was sensibly inferior to that of the LLM alone...

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Patients deserve to feel recognized when they participate in research. Too often in the past, research has been done TO patients rather than done WITH them. Read this article @bmkwan.bsky.social worked on with @thelizarmy.bsky.social: buff.ly/43MDfBM #medsky #cansky #btsm #radonc #oncsky

Could AI bridge the months-long gap between the onset of your symptoms and the next appointment with your clinician? Thomas Bondenheimer, @thelizarmy.bsky.social, @epatientdave.bsky.social, and Tom Delbanco paint a picture of what the future of care might look like. Read more: buff.ly/hr75NbZ

OpenNotes research has shown that about 98% of patients say reading their notes is a good idea. Which leaves the obvious question: what’s going on with the other approximately 2%? After careful (and very scientific) observation, patients seem to be stuck in an eternal loop of “Forgot Password?”

This #NationalDoctorsDay we are celebrating two of our team members for their tireless work to serve patients. 🩺 We are so lucky to have @chethan.bsky.social as an AI Informatics Strategist and Sigall Bell, MD as Director of Patient Safety and Discovery at OpenNotes. Read more: buff.ly/NX7lKjk

Canadians deserve open notes and access to their health data. This article in @healthydebate.bsky.social argues that patients will seek out their health data and deserve accessibly written notes. Read the full article: healthydebate.ca/2026/03/topi... #PatientVoice #PatientEngagement

Transparency is not risk free. But neither is restricted access - Healthy Debate

Patients should not have to file formal requests to understand their own care, and they should not be excluded from conversations that shape their health and lives.

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How might human-centered AI reduce costs, ease clinician burden, and improve the care experience for both patients and clinicians? @chethan.bsky.social of OpenNotes and @brittanytrang.com of @statnews.com moderated panels at @cornelltech.bsky.social's Health Tech Summit. #PatientsUseAI #Medsky

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) partnered with Google to test an AI tool in a clinical setting. BIDMC employees including @cait-desroches.bsky.social and @adamrodmanmd.bsky.social went to "The Check Up" gathering in NY. Watch the recording: buff.ly/ddoZhlM #PatientsUseAI #MedSky

Let's remember that patients are key partners this #PatientSafetyWeek! "Think about it...who better to find an error than the patient? My two eyes on my one chart versus my doctor's two eyes on 1,000 charts?" said @thelizarmy.bsky.social. Watch the full video:

Quality Talks 2018: Liz Salmi

At an age when her peers were in school, Liz Salmi was touring the country as the drummer in a punk rock band. When others her age were launching careers and starting families, she was confronting a…

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Today is #WorldKidneyDay and it's time to include patient voices in the way that life-saving organ transplants are evaluated. Read this Viewpoint published in @JAMA.com by Aditya S. Pawar, MD, Tom Delbanco, MD and Randall S. Stafford, MD, PhD, (paywalled 🔓 ): buff.ly/7mkAd7n #MedSky

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in health care is on the rise. What does it mean for quality, safety, cost, and the clinician experience? @ihi.org is hosting a webinar with Dr. Robert Wachter. 📅 3/12 ⏰ 11 AM–12 PM ET 🎟️ Free Sign up today: buff.ly/UkRbE5d #MedSky #PatientsUseAI

Patient Safety Awareness Week: AI and Health Care: Implications for Safety and Quality as the Field Matures

Join Dr. Robert Wachter for this Lucian Leape Institute (LLI) webinar as he examines the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in health care and what it means for quality, safety,…

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@thelizarmy.bsky.social offers insights from beta-testing OpenAI’s new Health GPT. As a longtime advocate for healthcare transparency who shares her health records publicly, she urges others to think critically before doing the same. Read more in @stat-statnews-com.1440.news:

Why I decided to share all my health information with ChatGPT Health

“I don’t think people should have to go through 18 years of brain cancer to understand their own health records,” writes Liz Salmi.

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Mental health notes are now open in Canada! 🇨🇦 CAMH, Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, recently released the 'Nothing About Me, Without Me (including My Health Record)' project: lnkd.in/eQ8aFTit #Medsky #PatientVoice #PatientExperience #DisabilityJustice

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “A.I. doesn’t have to be perfect to be better. It just has to be better,” writes Robert Wachter.

Opinion | Stop Worrying, and Let A.I. Help Save Your Life

A.I. isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t have to be to improve medicine.

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Are you being honest with your clinician about your AI use? @adamrodmanmd.bsky.social offers advice in the @nytimes.com for people using LLM chatbots to understand their health. He says honesty is the best policy... and your doctor is probably using AI as well. buff.ly/pNeUJlD #PatientsUseAI

Take It From a Doctor: It’s OK if Your Medical Advice Comes From A.I.

As a practicing physician, I know that my patients are using artificial intelligence to get medical advice. Sometimes the signs are subtle, like when they bring me lists of suggested tests and potential diagnoses that would put Dr. House to shame.

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Mental health notes are now open in Canada! 🇨🇦 CAMH, Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, recently released the 'Nothing About Me, Without Me (including My Health Record)' project: lnkd.in/eQ8aFTit #Medsky #PatientVoice #PatientExperience #DisabilityJustice

@thelizarmy.bsky.social offers insights from beta-testing OpenAI’s new Health GPT. As a longtime advocate for healthcare transparency who shares her health records publicly, she urges others to think critically before doing the same. Read more in @stat-statnews-com.1440.news:

Why I decided to share all my health information with ChatGPT Health

“I don’t think people should have to go through 18 years of brain cancer to understand their own health records,” writes Liz Salmi.

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From asking whether healthcare transparency even matters to defining critical AI health literacy...read our top editorials from 2025: 1. buff.ly/fzuYsIH 2. buff.ly/Z86SZ1H 3. buff.ly/h83Z9v6 4. buff.ly/7tdpYKq 5. buff.ly/fdsBCua 6. buff.ly/ljGoPyP 7. buff.ly/e7o7TwM #MedSky #PatientVoice

I spent the weekend taking OpenAI’s new #HealthGPT for a spin. 🤓 Naturally, I connected 3 health systems, uploaded a 4,800-page PDF of my medical history & ran my own mini-study with custom prompts. Curious about the experiment, my “protocol” & what didn’t work? www.thelizarmy.com/blog/my-firs...

What happens when your care partner is abusive and has access to your patient portal? Read this timely and thoughtful piece offering practical guidelines for documenting IPV in trauma-informed, patient-centered ways in the Journal of the Academy of Forensic Nursing: buff.ly/igwc0iX #MedSky

It’s been another year of publications that are making healthcare more transparent 🙌 Have a look at some of our research from 2025. 1. buff.ly/VpHABZ5 2. buff.ly/aiXDy7f 3. buff.ly/h4QLdxm 4. buff.ly/KQ0i8Le @cait-desroches.bsky.social @thelizarmy.bsky.social More in the thread to follow.

Transparency can be a powerful force for tech equity so that every patient has the opportunity to engage in their care. Read about "techquity" in this @ascocancer.bsky.social editorial by @cait-desroches.bsky.social and @thelizarmy.bsky.social ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/... #MedSky #CanSky #BTSM

It’s been another year of publications that are making healthcare more transparent 🙌 Have a look at some of our research from 2025. 1. buff.ly/VpHABZ5 2. buff.ly/aiXDy7f 3. buff.ly/h4QLdxm 4. buff.ly/KQ0i8Le @cait-desroches.bsky.social @thelizarmy.bsky.social More in the thread to follow.

“My first mistake was talking instead of listening. I should have slowed down. I should have given them the time and space to explain their thought process. I should have given myself the time to empathize with their perspective.” @statnews.com #MedSky #ParticipatoryMedicine buff.ly/WZ2dhj5

What I got wrong 33 years ago as a new pediatrician talking to parents about vaccines

Thirty-three years ago, as a new pediatrician, RWJ CEO Richard Besser had a conversation about vaccines with two parents-to-be. It still sticks with him.

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