What’s it like to work at PatientsLikeMe? We’ll be revealing just that with our new blog series “A Day in the Life,” which features various employees from different departments. To start this new series off with a veteran perspective, we interviewed Research Scientist Mike Massagli, PhD, one of the longest tenured employees of the company. […]
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Did you know today is World AIDS Day? Thanks to the many different organizations (including those like AIDS.gov) recognizing the day and raising awareness about HIV and AIDS. Now a few years old, the PatientsLikeMe HIV community currently has more than 2,800 people with HIV sharing their health information to help others learn from their
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Last Fall, PatientsLikeMe introduced our Quality of Life (QoL) tool which is displayed on the profiles of members in the HIV community. By answering a few questions, patients can see how HIV is impacting them – physically, socially and mentally. Today, this same QoL measure is used by thousands of patients across the HIV community
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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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There is growing interest in and demand for access to personal health information and tools to review and discuss this information. But why? What do patients get from reviewing health information? More research is needed to know the answer.To examine this question and understand what value users get from one another’s information, Michael Massagli and
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