When patients have access to their physician notes through an online portal, their rates of medication adherence tends to go up, according to a study in Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Following a trial program allowing medical patients to access their doctor’s notes online, researchers found that patients using “OpenNotes” felt more in control of their health. More than 100 doctors ...

More U.S. patients will soon have free, electronic access to the notes their doctors write about them under a new federal requirement for transparency. Many health systems are opening up records ...

What does your doctor really think about your condition and health concerns? For more than a year now, patients have been able to access and read the observations doctors write down about them during ...

Did you know that as of April 2021, all patients have electronic access to their doctors’ notes from medical appointments? This increased access to information is aimed at improving patient care, as ...

A coroner writes to the NHS after a boy, 4, died from a brain tumour days after going to hospital.

October 1, 2012 — Primary care physicians and patients believe that allowing patients to review doctors' notes has significant benefits and few problems, according to the findings of a ...