Doctors' notes on mental health shared with patients

As part of an ongoing effort to make care more transparent, clinicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have begun posting the mental health notes in patients’ electronic medical records, allowing the patients immediate access to the summaries at home. Michael Kahn, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Pamela Peck, assistant professor of psychology, both of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Gregg Meyer, lecturer on medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, are quoted.

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