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NW Retiree February General Meeting

Sign up for the May 24th general meeting

You are invited to the KaPeRs luncheon, Thursday May 24, 2018, at 12 noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.). The location is the Town Hall Ballroom at 3704 N. Interstate Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97227. Press here for details.

$12 for retirees and $14 for a guest. (Limited seating, so register quickly)

Door prizes: four attendees will win certificates for dinners for two at a local area restaurants.

Print this form and send it with a check payable to KaPeRs, P.O. Box 2732, Tualatin, OR 97062.

If you must cancel, please phone Anke at (503) 885-8049 before Monday the week of the meeting. After that date, we are charged for reservations. Town Hall Ballroom seating capacity is limited so make your reservation early.

Guest Speaker

Homer Chin, MD, former associate medical director, Northwest Permanente.

M Kaiser Permanente Northwest has been an early pioneer in the development and use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and patient portals such as kp.org.

In 2010, a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed the many benefits of giving patients easy access to their full EHR visit notes.  This study spawned a movement--called "OpenNotes"-- to provide patients increased access to their full EHR visit notes.  In 2014, all major healthcare organizations in the Portland Metro area formed the NW OpenNotes Consortium, committing to opening up their EHR visit notes to patients via their patient portals.  KP Northwest Region was the first organization in this region (after  the VA) to completely open up their EHR visit notes to patients via kp.org.  Patient are now able to see immunizations, lab results, imaging results, after visit summaries, and their visit notes through their kp.org account.

OpenNotes has been implemented in all major health organizations in the Portland Metro area, and is continuing to expand throughout the US.  The latest estimate is that over 20 million patients now have access to their complete visit notes via their healthcare organization's patient portal.

Join us on May 24 to learn more about the benefits of providing  patients access to their full EHR visit notes, and more specifically, how to access your own provider visit notes within your kp.org account.

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