OpenNotes — A Gold Mine of Community Organizing

Transparent communication in healthcare. Connection, trust, control. Research to practice. Change management. Community organizing. Liz Salmi tells her story.

Introducing Liz Salmi

Making health choices and decisions and communicating health information as we learn on the journey toward best health: my mission in life in a nutshell. Nowhere have these merged more strongly to support the clinical relationship between regular people and direct care clinicians than in the OpenNotes movement. Everyone on the Same Page. OpenNotes is the international movement promoting and studying transparent communication in healthcare helping patients and clinicians share meaningful notes in medical records. OpenNotes fosters trust, control, and connection. For me, Liz Salmi personifies the OpenNotes crusade, a regular person with passion, smarts, charisma, and endurance. I’m delighted to have her as a guest today. Listen especially to Liz talk about the community organizing aspect of change management and implementation of evidence-informed innovation. Liz inspires me.

Health Hats: Liz, it is wonderful that you could join me today. I’ve been excited about the opportunity to hear about what you’re doing and pick your brain. I was trying to remember when we first met.