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.

A recent study found clinical notes could be used to identify fatigued physicians. The study, published July 1 in Nature, used data from 129,228 ED visits to a single academic medical center over 2010 ...

Nine health systems and organizations in Washington and Oregon -- representing more than a million patients -- have pledged to open up physician notes to patients via electronic medical records by the ...