Janice D. Walker, RN, MBA

Co-Founder, OpenNotes

Janice D. Walker, RN, MBA

Co-Founder, OpenNotes

Research Concentrations

  • Patient Perspectives on Quality of Care
  • Patient-Facing Health Information Technology

Professional Biography

Jan Walker's principal research interests lie in patients' perspectives on care and the use of information technologies to improve their experience. She and Tom Delbanco are co-founders of "OpenNotes", a national initiative that champions patients' access to their complete medical records to optimize their health and enable contributions to develop new approaches to patient-clinician partnership. She is a former critical care nurse and holds a BSN from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Boston University.