Doctor, patient expectations differ on fitness and lifestyle tracking

running-appsIn a study that won a best paper award and will be presented in March at the Association for Computing Machinery’s conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing in San Francisco, UW researchers, including UW assistant professor of Family Medicine Allison Cole, surveyed 211 patients and interviewed 21 doctors, dietitians and other health care providers about their expectations for how patients’ self-tracking data should be shared and used. Read more here…