“One of the themes of The Decision Tree – both the blog and the book – has been the idea of self-tracking: the notion that when people monitor their health, they are more likely to improve their health. In the aggregate, that’s true – research shows that when people start to track or even care about their health (when the start to feel vested in it, and in control of it) they tend to have better outcomes.
That’s a powerful and important message, one that I believe hasn’t really gotten widespread recognition – and I hope one benefit of the book is that this message will spread and help change people’s lives (as well as the approach of care providers, who may have heretofore been reluctant to engage their patients in their own care).”
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Thomas Goetz, The Decision Tree, 21 December 2009
