{"id":46853,"date":"2020-03-12T23:39:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T22:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=46853"},"modified":"2020-03-18T16:48:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T15:48:03","slug":"recording-consultations-an-inevitable-future-which-could-improve-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/03\/12\/recording-consultations-an-inevitable-future-which-could-improve-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording consultations\u2014an inevitable future which could improve healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Patient start recording visits<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2014, I wrote a short article in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The BMJ<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> called \u201cPatientgate\u2014digital recordings change everything\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[1]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where I argued that the arrival of smartphones and their capability to easily record clinical encounters would be a route to better quality healthcare. Patients put a very high value on being able to listen again to their visits and to share them with family members and others, and this is being confirmed by more studies <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[2,3]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What has changed since 2014?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since that time, significant developments have taken place. First, and most critical from an adoption perspective, a number of organizations have embraced the concept of recording encounters, and are promoting the idea that patients should either be recording their visits or are providing patients with the means to access recordings <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[4,5]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The number of organizations that use different methods to support patient access to recordings is increasing because they view the process as a positive way to provide high-quality patient care <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[4,5]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Secondly, an increasing number of companies have been established who provide patients (and organizations) with technology designed to make it easier to record, store and access recordings of clinical visits. Some are going beyond just capturing and storing audio. For example, some apps provide access to the entire recording and use machine learning to create immediately accessible transcripts of medically relevant highlights from the conversation so that people can pinpoint what they wish to share or recall at a later time. Naturally, when downloading third-party software to their smartphones, users will want control over their data: what to store and what to share. Users will also wish to have power over what to delete and what to archive. Whether or not users can be assured that the algorithms are safe and of sufficient quality, remains to be seen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Clinicians remain concerned<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, clinicians remain hesitant and are often concerned, and there is no real evidence that this reaction has changed substantially <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[6]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. As noted by Joshi <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[6]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, clinicians feel that patients\u2019 recording <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">consultations<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a threat, that they would be intimidated, inhibited, and feel less willing or able to give their best advice. They also cite concerns about recordings being posted to the web or on social media, exposing them and others to various data security breaches. Nevertheless, as Barr noted <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[5]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, more and more clinicians are becoming aware of the fact that patients are recording, either with or without permission and perhaps, over time, the hesitancy will either diminish or more likely, organizations will increasingly view giving patients access to recordings as part of standard practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The law<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The patient\u2019s right to record is very real. The law permits patients\u2019 recording in the UK, and indeed, the medical defense societies suggest that clinicians assume that recording may be occurring in every visit. Forward-thinking hospital systems in the US are now starting to encourage patients to record their encounters. This is occuring in places such as Pittsburgh, Boston, and Phoenix, to name a few locations. At the same time, some hospital systems in the US have issued notices banning patients from recording, unaware of the wiretap laws that in 40 states allow the patient alone to decide whether they want to record their visit <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[7]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Evaluation<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Digital recordings provide unique access to interactions that have previously been the sole domain of communication research studies. As Ryan proposed, the range of possible uses of this data is vast <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[8]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and work is underway. Academic groups\uff0dsuch as my colleagues at Dartmouth College <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[9]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and groups in Australia <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[10]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\uff0dhave started to explore what additional features could be offered to stored digital recordings of clinical encounters, such as labeling key sections or giving links to evidence-based information when keywords are identified. It is possible, though not proven as yet, that when being recorded, clinicians would pay more attention to what they say and how they say it. Alternatively, it is also possible that recording that is initiated by patients will adversely affect clinician-patient relationships, initiate defensiveness and fears of providing helpful if speculative advice lest it lead to litigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Research and regulation<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As policy lags behind the pace of technological innovation and societal norms, regulators will need to consider issues around data security and secondary use. For example, the U.S. rules about data protection based on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">HIPAA) do not apply to data collected by patients themselves, or by third parties that are not considered to be\u00a0 \u201c\u2018covered entities\u201d\u2019. Furthermore, the laws around recording consent and data security, dating from the 1950s, are woefully out of date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But at a time when patient demand for improved access to their personal data is increasing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[11]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> it is tantalizing to think about how an organized, summarized, curated series of digital recordings might align with the person-centered healthcare system of the future. Not only is more research required, but we also urgently need new ethical frameworks on how to govern such data <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[12]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asking for, and receiving recordings (summarised or not), empowers patients <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[2]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and makes it much more likely that clinicians will be kind and careful <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[13]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The future of medical practice, like so many other areas, will be transformed by that small device we now carry around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/364\/bmj.l1101\">My patient wants to record our appointment, what should I do?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Glyn Elwyn<\/strong>, professor, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Competing Interests:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Glyn Elwyn is Editor-in-Chief of the Option Grid tools produced by EBSCO Health, an adviser to PatientWisdom Inc, and the Chief Clinical Research Scientist for <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abridge.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abridge AI Inc<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a developer of an app that allows patients to securely record, transcribe, and share health recordings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>References:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elwyn G. \u201cPatientgate\u201d-digital recordings change everything: Patients\u2019 recordings of consultations are a valuable addition to the medical evidence base. BMJ. 2014;348. doi:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1136\/bmj.g2078\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10.1136\/bmj.g2078<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elwyn G, Barr PJ, Grande SW. Patients recording clinical encounters: A path to empowerment? Assessment by mixed methods. BMJ Open. 2015;5: 8.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tsulukidze M, Durand MA, Barr PJ, Mead T, Elwyn G. Providing recording of clinical consultation to patients &#8211; A highly valued but underutilized intervention: A scoping review. Patient Educ Couns. 2014;95: 297\u2013304.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barr PJ, Dannenberg, Ganoe C, Carpenter-Song E, Haslett W, Das A AR, et al. A Case Study of U.S. Clinics that Routinely Offer Patients Recordings of Clinic Visits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barr PJ, Bonasia K, Verma K, Dannenberg MD, Yi C, Andrews E, et al. Audio-\/Videorecording Clinic Visits for Patient\u2019s Personal Use in the United States: Cross-Sectional Survey. J Med Internet Res. 2018;20: e11308.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joshi A, Farberov M, Demissie S, Smith MC, Elwyn G. Attitudes of Physicians to Recording Clinical Encounters: Responses to an Online Survey. J Gen Intern Med. 2019. doi:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11606-019-05127-y\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10.1007\/s11606-019-05127-y<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elwyn G, Barr PJ, Castaldo M. Can patients make recordings of medical encounters? What does the law say? JAMA &#8211; Journal of the American Medical Association. 2017;318: 513\u2013514.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ryan P, Luz S, Albert P, Vogel C, Normand C, Elwyn G. Using artificial intelligence to assess clinicians\u2019 communication skills. BMJ. 2019;364: l161.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barr PJ, Dannenberg MD, Ganoe CH, Haslett W, Faill R, Hassanpour S, et al. Sharing Annotated Audio Recordings of Clinic Visits With Patients-Development of the Open Recording Automated Logging System (ORALS): Study Protocol. JMIR Res Protoc. 2017;6: e121.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SECOND ears: Development of an audio-recording app for patient consultations. In: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre [Internet]. 1 Jun 2016 [cited 6 Sep 2019]. Available: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petermac.org\/research\/SECOND%20EARS\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.petermac.org\/research\/SECOND%20EARS<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Esch T, Mejilla R, Anselmo M, Podtschaske B, Delbanco T, Walker J. Engaging patients through open notes: an evaluation using mixed methods. BMJ Open. 2016 Jan 29; 6 (1): e010034. doi: 10.1136\/bmjopen-2015-010034.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harari YN. Lessons for the 21st Century. London: Spiegel &amp; Grau; 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Montori V. Why we revolt. 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