Apps are cool, but apps alone don’t make a patient engagement strategy
January 29, 2015
A few years ago, I had immersed myself in understanding the systemic problems we were facing in healthcare. As I was doing research on hospital readmissions and poor transitions of care, I was fascinated by the complexity of our system but concerned about the future. With rising population needs and limited resources, I began to believe that patient engagement would play a very important role in a value-based care delivery model. Read More
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