health 2.0

Join the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s $200,000 Developer Challenge!

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Can a game app lead to better health?  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation thinks so.  They’ve announced a competition challenging developers to create game apps that “generate useful health care data to improve health and health care.” The competition will be conducted in two phases. Phase One is an “open ideation phase” where interested developer teams […]

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PatientsLikeMe at Health 2.0: Paths to Insight

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Last month, I spoke once again at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco.  The video of my presentation is now online.  Here’s a snapshot of what I covered in the 6-minute talk: The wealth of data shared in a PatientsLikeMe treatment reports (e.g., what fibromyalgia patients are sharing about Cymbalta and Lyrica) A suite

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New Parkinson’s Genetics Engine to Enhance Research Through Shared Data

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Though documented as long ago as the early 1800s, medical breakthroughs in Parkinson’s disease research have been slow in coming.  That’s why PatientsLikeMe continues to get involved in the research process.  With our new genetics engine for Parkinson’s disease, patients now have a way to share information about their genetics and find others with the

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PatientsLikeMe Teams Up with 23andMe to Help Parkinson’s Patients

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Despite some recent happenings in the news, we’re here to assure you that health 2.0 is still very much alive.  Here’s our recent announcement about our new partnership with 23andMe. ————– PatientsLikeMe, the first community-based personalized medicine platform for people with life-changing conditions, and 23andMe, the world’s leading personal genomics company, announce a partnership today

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Announcing the PatientsLikeMe ALS Genetics Search Engine

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This month marks the 3-year anniversary of our flagship ALS community.  While there have been so many exciting milestones we’ve reached in that time, we’re always looking at ways to bring new insight to this disease. Today, we’re announcing the launch of our Genetics Search Engine for people with ALS.  Imagine finding other patients just

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CBS Evening News, BusinessWeek, Fibromyalgia: Oh, Just Your Typical Friday

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It’s exciting times for PatientsLikeMe! Today, our new community for people with fibromyalgia goes live on our site.  Spread the word!  Let’s bring a new level of understanding to this disease in a way that nobody else can.  Next week: a blog series regarding this new community and the people in it. If you haven’t

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Bringing you Medicine 2.0

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Last week, PatientsLikeMe presented a keynote address at the inaugural Medicine 2.0 Congress in Toronto, Canada in front of 200 researchers from 20 countries. A new, annual international conference on Web 2.0 (social web) applications in health and medicine, this year’s event was centered around the theme: “Building Virtual Communities and Social Networking Applications for

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