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PatientsLikeMe
Organization & Developments: PatientsLikeMe
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2011: PatientsLikeMe Now Open to All (2011)
2011: PatientsLikeMe reveals strategy change (2011)
2011: PatientsLikeMe Unveils Clinical Trial Matching Tool Medgadget.com -- Internet Journal of Emerging Medical Technologies (2011)
2013: Sanofi taps PatientsLikeMe to spur clinical trial participation
2021: Leading Personalized Patient Health Network PatientsLikeMe Raises $26 Million to Support Next Phase of Growth
2021: PatientsLikeMe will enter a new phase of growth as an independent, venture-backed organization.
2021: PatientsLikeMe, the world’s largest integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform
2021: The company has a tremendous capacity to support care delivery, scientific research, and consumer engagement through partnerships with every participant in the health industry: care delivery organizations, health plans, employers, pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, life sciences organizations, and government sponsors.
2021: Through PatientsLikeMe, a growing community of more than 830,000 people with over 2,900 conditions share personal stories and information about their health, symptoms, and treatments, with a goal to improve the lives of all patients through knowledge derived from shared real-world experiences and outcomes.
access to such communities of patients is a fast bypass around restrictive privacy rules.
But is a boon to medical researchers
Firsthand accounts about what living with disease is like
Founded by two brothers Benjamin and James Heywood and friend Jeff Cole because the three MIT engineers were trying to help Stephen Heywood afflicted with ALS.
Online community where patients discuss and track medical conditions
PatientsLikeMe consolidates personal accounts and helps patients track their progress.
The deep and engaged community has only a few thousand members
The goal is to help all patients better manage their medical conditions by becoming involved with other similar patients by using a health data-sharing platform.
Unfortunately, Stephen passed away in 2006 but his story was the inspiration for the start of “PatientsLikeMe”.
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