Maria Hägglund presented at a webbinar at Linnaeus University with the title: “Patients access to their electronic health records – experiences from Sweden and an international outlook”. The webinar was recorded, and you can now find the recording here.
Maria Hägglund, the project leader for NORDeHEALTH, has been invited to give a presentation in the U-care seminar series. Maria will give a short international outlook, and briefly share preliminary results from the international NORDeHEALTH survey to patients, accessible through the national patient portals in Sweden (1177.se and ‘Journalen’), Finland, Norway and Estonia. Focus willContinue reading “Webbinar 29 March”
Thursday March 17, 15.00-16.00 Swedish time, Maria Hägglund (PI for NORDeHEALTH) will give a talk at Linnaeus University on “Patients access to their electronic health records – experiences from Sweden and an international outlook”. To sign up, please register here!
As of today, Monday 24th of January 2022, the NORDeHEALTH national surveys are published in Sweden, Norway, Estonia and Finland. Anyone can answer by logging in to the respective national patient portal. We hope to be able to both learn more about how patients use the access to their electronic health records, and what theyContinue reading “NORDeHEALTH national surveys”
Charlotte Blease and Hanife Rexhepi who both actively participate in the NORDeHEALTH project, spoke at the first of four webinars organized by the BMJ on patient access to health records. The webinar had a focus on ethical aspects, and discussed how NOT giving patients access to their records pose ethical problems of their own. YouContinue reading “BMJ webinar on ethical aspects”
Tonight at 6 pm (Swedish time), Maria Hägglund (PI for NORDeHEALTH) will the speaking in the fourth and last of a series of webinars organized by the BMJ on patients access to their health records. She will be giving an international overview and discuss some of the implementation challenges we have identified in research studiesContinue reading “BMJ webinar series”
EHiN – E-health in Norway – the largest e-health conference in Norway is held on November 9th and 10th this year. It brings together the health sector, business and decision-makers to promote tomorrow’s e-health development. About 1000 participants will attend physically along with another 1000 digitally. On the second day there will be a one-hourContinue reading “NORDeHEALTH on EHiN!”
Maria Hägglund, PI for NORDeHEALTH, will deliver a Keynote speech as part of a Plenary Session at the EPF Congress on October 26th 13.00-14.00 CET. Patients’ access, control and ownership of health data remains key topics to address to harness health data for better patients’ care. This plenary session will focus on discussing these threeContinue reading “Plenary Session at the European Patient Forum Congress”
Swedish partners recently published an article on the subject of patient’s access to their psychiatric notes. Here is a brief summary. The phenomenon of sharing clinical notes or narrative visit reports with patients is often referred to as ‘open notes.’ Open notes in psychiatric care are considered particularly controversial. The few studies that have investigatedContinue reading “Patients’ Access to Their Psychiatric Notes”
In July, Swedish partners from the NORDeHEALTH project published findings from a survey done 2016 which included questions on the usability of the national patient portal. Hägglund M, Scandurra IUser Evaluation of the Swedish Patient Accessible Electronic Health Record: System Usability Scale JMIR Hum Factors 2021;8(3):e24927doi: 10.2196/24927PMID: 34313596 The data was collected through an online survey which wasContinue reading “Usability of the Swedish Patient Portal”
From April 5, 2021, as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, all providers in the United States must offer patients access to the medical information housed in their electronic records. Via secure health portals, patients can log in to access lab and test results, lists of prescribed medications, referral appointments, and the narrative reportsContinue reading “Benefits of sharing notes in a pandemic”
I will in this short text introduce the project’s second work package “WP 2 – National socio-technical contexts and policies”, which I am co-leading together with Isabella Scandurra. Aside from us, Gunnar Klein and Annika Bärkås are also highly involved in the work package, which was one of the work packages where work started offContinue reading “Starting off with a focus on national socio-technical contexts and policies”
We have published an opinion piece on the NORDeHEALTH project in the BMJ. The opinion piece describes the project and four important areas that will receive special focus; Contextual differences: when reading studies on success or failure of PAEHR implementations there is often a lack of detail provided on contextual or socio-technical factors that could have influenced the results. UsabilityContinue reading “BMJ Opinion piece on the NORDeHEALTH project”
Tomorrow, the largest Nordic eHealth conference Vitalis begins! NORDeHEALTH will have a 2 hour session in the conference full of interesting presentations. Please find the program for our session here. We will have interesting presentations from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia and the US, all focusing on patients online access to their electronic health records.
A new article from the NORDeHEALTH project was just published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The authors build on previous research on patients access to their health records, and argue that denying patients access can be seen as a case of epistemic injustice. Even in countries that have implemented the practice of giving patientsContinue reading “Patients, clinicians and open notes: information blocking as a case of epistemic injustice”