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Q&A: Patient Engagement: 'The Next Frontier for Improving Healthcare'

For Jim Rose, the senior vice president of business development with Patient Engagement Systems, the concept of patient engagement is at the root of major changes in healthcare today. The only question is: What does patient engagement look like?

Perhaps the term is best defined by what it’s not. “Engagement is not synonymous with compliance,” said Rose during a presentation at the National Medical Home Summit in Philadelphia. Engagement, rather, “signifies that a person is involved in a process.”

It can be a nebulous difference, but emerging models of care, such as the medical home, consider that difference a core component of the delivery process. To gain a better understanding of how patient engagement can improve care, Medical Home Today sits down with Rose over a sextet of questions.

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