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2013: The Year of Patient Engagement Innovations

Noted: Patricia Flatley Brennan, a professor of nursing and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, heads up Project HealthDesign, a national research effort to explore ways to capture and integrate patient-recorded observations into clinical care. For that 2012 story, she noted that there hadn?t been much demand from the provider side yet. ?There is this delightful tension between what technology enables and social change,? she told me. ?The jury is still out on this.?