Patient Engagement is the Blockbuster Drug of the Century (Part 2) - Forbes

Patient Engagement is the Blockbuster Drug of the Century (Part 2) - Forbes

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"I recently wrote about a historic day in opening doctor’s notes. Sherry Reynolds is a healthcare industry veteran who is also a patient advocate and she made a strong point on her twitter stream: “If  # OpenNotes was a new drug that increased patient engagement by 85%,  every doctor in the country would be prescribing it. She later added the question when leading hospitals such as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center open up their records for all patients (which they have done) and have demonstrably better outcomes, will it be malpractice not to. I made a similar point in Patient Engagement is the Blockbuster Drug of the Century. That is, it will become the new Standard of Care......