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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe contributes open-source parser to Blue Button initiative Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — According to a recent PatientsLikeMe® Poll, one out of every two type 2 diabetes patients (50%) and nearly two out of every three type 1 diabetes patients (65%) say having diabetes affects their holidays... Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe and R.A.R.E Project announce a new partnership to find and connect 1 million rare disease patients to share and learn everything possible about their conditions Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe reveals MS patients' perceptions of Copaxone Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe and BBK launch the campaign Calling All Types Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe releases the first of five in a series of reports focusing on how patients are experiencing and evaluating DMTs in the real world... Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe’s Research Director, Paul Wicks Ph.D., was chosen as a TR35 Honoree and named Humanitarian of the Year by MIT Technology Review magazine. The TR35 recognizes the world’s top innovators under the age of 35... Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — And the winners of the first-ever PatientsLikeMe video contest are... Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe and BBK Worldwide announce an alliance to enhance patient recruitment and retention for ongoing and upcoming clinical research studies... Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe announces the launch of a new feature that helps patients find clinical trials that are right for them and helps companies find patients who are right for their trial Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe reveals the results of a patient-initiated observational study... Read more…
Patients Unveil Top Reasons Not to Share Health Information
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — According to a new PatientsLikeMe® Poll, almost one in three (29%) patients have withheld certain health information from their doctor... Read more…
BRUSSELS, Belgium and CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — In a survey amongst people with epilepsy in the U.S. who have joined PatientsLikeMe®, respondents indicate that better seizure understanding and improved adherence are key benefits of using the site... Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe calls all patients with any condition to join Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe and Novartis launch online community for people who have received organ transplants, including heart, lung, liver and kidney. Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe recognized in Fast Company's 2010 ranking of World's 50 Most Innovative Companies Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe acquires online pain management company, ReliefInsite Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe and UCB open the doors to a free online community for people living with epilepsy in the U.S. Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe adds community for people with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis Read more…
Brussels, Belgium and Cambridge, Mass. — — • Unique industry-patient partnership to improve understanding of epilepsy • Epilepsy patients will share real-time, day-to-day progress in controlling seizures and achieving treatment goals Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — Health 2.0 Pioneers Work Together To Accelerate Research Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — "The Patient Voice" report series by PatientsLikeMe makes its debut Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe launches new genetic search engine for ALS patients Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe announces new community for people with fibromyalgia. Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe announces the release of its PatientsLikeMeListen™ report: "Did the July 2008 PML announcement affect the Tysabri brand?" Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe Wins Prix Ars Electronic "Award of Distinction" Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — A recent study by PatientsLikeMe, the leading health data sharing community for patients with life-changing conditions, reveals Young-Onset Parkinson’s Disease (YOPD) patients (individuals with symptom onset at 40 years or younger) experience more non-motor symptoms than those with “classic” Parkinson’s disease (PD)... Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — Brownstein Accolades and R&D Background Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, MA — — PatientsLikeMe, the leading treatment and outcome sharing community for people with life-changing conditions, announces a new community for people with HIV and AIDS. Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — Bringing the New Year in right, Benjamin Heywood, CEO of PatientsLikeMe, was interviewed by the Health Business Blog. Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe, the leading treatment and outcome sharing website for people with life-changing conditions, has been recognized by Business 2.0 and CNN Money.com as one of their 2007 "Next Disruptors: 15 Companies That Will Change The World". Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe.com, the leading treatment and outcome sharing community for people with life-changing conditions, has released the most comprehensive real-world treatment and symptom dataset on ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe, the leading treatment and outcomes sharing website for people with life-changing diseases, is featured on the PBS news magazine Frontline’s website in conjunction with the April television airings of So Much So Fast. Described by Oscar-nominated directors Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan as “a black-humored cliffhanger of romance, guerrilla science and the redefinition of time,” So Much So Fast chronicles Stephen Heywood’s courageous battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe announced today that it has been named to FierceHealthIT’s first-ever list of Top Health IT Innovators. This recognition honors PatientsLikeMe for its innovation in the health IT industry. Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe, the leading treatment and outcomes sharing website for people with life-changing diseases, is proud to announce its first scientific poster award. Today, at the 20th anniversary meeting of the British Neuropsychiatry Association (BNPA), Dr. Paul Wicks, resident researcher at PatientsLikeMe.com received the Association’s first prize for the best poster presentation, entitled “Telesocial medicine for neurological disorders: PatientsLikeMe.com”. Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — — PatientsLikeMe (http://www.patientslikeme.com), the leading treatment and outcome sharing website for people with life-changing diseases, announced today that it has secured $5 million in Series A funding led by Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC with participation from private equity fund Invus, LP. Previous investors in PatientsLikeMe include founding partner CommerceNet and Omidyar Network. Read more…
NEWTON, Mass. — — From December 1998 when Stephen Heywood was diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease) to Sunday morning November 26, 2006 when he passed away with his family and friends Stephen lived a lifetime. Read more…
PatientsLikeMe is featured as a new TR50 company—a list that also includes Apple, Facebook and IBM.
Ben Heywood, PatientsLikeMe co-founder and president, and Michael Burke, PatientsLikeMe member, are interviewed in this article featuring niche social networks like Pinterest, Ravelry, Trapster and PatientsLikeMe.
An inventory of online patient communities, PatientsLikeMe is called out as "one of the most innovative and forward thinking."
Innovative healthcare tools and communities are profiled—including PatientsLikeMe.
PatientsLikeMe, ZocDoc, iTriage and Treato are featured as healthcare entrepreneurs using social media.
In describing three ways social media is changing healthcare, PatientsLikeMe is called out as improving patient empowerment.
Big data, mobile, and social health networks—including PatientsLikeMe—are discussed.
A look at how collaboration using social media is changing medicine.
PatientsLikeMe’s R&D director Paul Wicks, PhD is profiled as Humanitarian of the Year and TR35 Honoree in this feature.
PatientsLikeMe is announced as one of three winners of the “Go For Gold” new business competition in the UK.
PatientsLikeMe is featured as a top health site in this CBS slideshow.
Co-Founder of PatientsLikeMe Jamie Heywood is recognized in this article about healthcare innovation.
PatientsLikeMe is featured in this piece about how sharing can benefit patients and caregivers.
Co-founder of PatientsLikeMe Jamie Heywood comments on our lithium study amongst ALS patients.
An article covering the results and impact of our newly published lithium study; R&D Director Paul Wicks Ph.D. is quoted.
PatientsLikeMe Poll results are featured in this USA Today Snapshot (Life section), showing the reasons why patients have kept health information from their doctor.
An article covering the results and impact of our newly published lithium study; Co-founder Jamie Heywood is quoted.
Co-founder Jamie Heywood and R&D Director Paul Wicks Ph.D. discuss how “the use of a social network to enroll patients and report and collect data may deliver dividends for future studies.”
Wall Street Journal reporter Amy Dockser Marcus takes a look at the PatientsLikeMe lithium study and discusses the viability of using “studies driven by patient social networks.”
With the concerns high on digital medical privacy, Ben Heywood talks about the advantages of sharing health information.
PatientsLikeMe is featured as an example of how patients are willingly discussing their medical conditions online.
A discussion on openness and transparency comes to light in a recent article regarding a scraping incident on PatientsLikeMe.
A PatientsLikeMe fibromyalgia community member talks about how the site has helped her, while co-founder Ben Heywood comments on weighing the risks and benefits of openly sharing data.
PatientsLikeMe co-founder Ben Heywood talks about the value of openly sharing data, and a PatientsLikeMe MS member tells her story of how the "site changed the way I view my future."
Co-founder Ben Heywood tells Fox News Reporter, Brian Donnelly, about the company’s objectives and importance to patients.
Clay Shirky, author of Cognitive Surplus, mentions PatientsLikeMe as he talks about what happens when people migrate to the internet.
PatientsLikeMe is mentioned in this article describing “patients' urge to understand their disease better.”
In this article, Clay Shirky explores the roots of a new reading and writing culture and calls out PatientsLikeMe an example of "an open source [approach]...appealing to the shared sense of seeking medical progress."
Co-founders Ben and Jamie Heywood talk with New York Times reporter, Natasha Singer, regarding how the company's for-profit business model and the value of openness.
Chief marketing officer, David Williams III, is interviewed regarding how PatientsLikeMe helps industry "think about patients as partners that help them complete [clinical] trials."
Emily Singer talks to Co-founder Jamie Heywood about the lithium study and how the company is "harvesting and analyzing patient information in a whole new way."
Ben Heywood sits down with Brian McDowell to discuss the business behind PatientsLikeMe and how patients are using the site
PatientsLikeMe is recognized in Fast Company's 2010 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World issue.
Xconomy's Ryan McBride gives an update on the growth of PatientsLikeMe and its work with industry
TIME reporter Bonnie Rochman presents the landscape of Patient 2.0 activity. PatientsLikeMe is spotlighted, with quotes from co-founder Jamie Heywood.
In this piece about the next-generation of genome sequencing technologies, PatientsLikeMe is mentioned as a platform where "personal genomes and medical histories from much larger numbers of people become available."
Co-founder and Chairman Jamie Heywood sits down with NPR correspondent, Joseph Shapiro, to discuss the "power for patients when they share medical information."
PatientsLikeMe's Jamie Heywood is quoted in this piece about what he presented at the FDA hearing on the "Regulated Medical Products Using the Internet and Social Media."
Malorye Allison provides an in-depth overview of PatientsLikeMe's approach to collecting and using clinical information to accelerate research and discovery.
Jamie Heywood is named to the 2009 Smart List ("12 Shocking Ideas That Will Change the World"); he talks to WIRED about the benefits of sharing your health data.
PatientsLikeMe is mentioned in this article about how the industry is opening up to consumer-driven healthcare.
Jamie Heywood and PatientsLikeMe members are featured in this article about "crowd-sourced disease sites" and participatory medicine
Nancy Davis Kho writes about the impact of the new Administration's approach to health IT (HIT); Jamie Heywood talks about the importance of transparency in such matters.
In this story about online efforts to aggregate genetic data, Jamie Heywood talks about how we approach incorporating genetics into the PatientsLikeMe platform
Live from The National Summit, Ben Heywood talks with Alexis Glick about the site and putting patients back at the center of the system
PatientsLikeMe and partner Novartis are mentioned in this story about how pharma is using social networking to recruit for clinical trials.
Highlighted as the "Disruptor of the Month," PatientsLikeMe is profiled in this piece (expanding on a mention of our company in Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Prescription).
Reporter Deb Borfitz interviews Ben Heywood about PatientsLikeMe's approach to working with industry for clinical trial awareness
James Heywood talks about the future of research in a new world of user-generated genetics.
In this article, PatientsLikeMe's David S. Williams III references our study on Tysabri and looks ahead at what could be for Campath.
Medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta visits the PatientsLikeMe office to interview our founders and a local ALS patient about how this site is making a difference in patients' lives.
Senior writer Catherine Arnst takes an in-depth look at how PatientsLikeMe is “changing the nature of drug research and the practice of medicine.”
This AP article delves into the history of PatientsLikeMe's lithium experiment, with quotes from James Heywood and ALS patients.
A glimpse at how the user-generated data shared on PatientsLikeMe can, and is, moving medicine forward.
Jamie Heywood talks about the value of openness and how it can shape the future of healthcare.
PatientsLikeMe's Ben Heywood is interviewed in this New York Times article about the democratization of health care.
PatientsLikeMe is cited as one of the "six of the most interesting and potentially useful online health resources" in this NYT piece.
Lily Huang writes about the potential for Web 2.0 to be "a powerful new tool for bottom-up, collaborative innovation," and cites PatientsLikeMe as an example.
An interesting article about power, and potential pitfalls, of patient-driven healthcare (spotlighting PatientsLikeMe)
In this article, Chris Dimick interviews Ben Heywood about PatientsLikeMe and its unique Openness Philosophy.
PatientsLikeMe and co-founder James Heywood are spotlighted in this article about the impact of social media on clinical research (www.newscientist.com).
PatientsLikeMe is featured in this BusinessWeek.com slideshow about niche social networking sites.
Bleicher spotlights PatientsLikeMe in this article about "how one patient community on the Web is single-handedly forging new ground in the clinical trials world."
The article, which features PatientsLikeMe, discusses the pros and cons associated with sharing data-rich personal health information in an open community.
PatientsLikeMe is recognized by Business 2.0 and CNN Money.com as one of their 2007 “Next Disruptors: 15 Companies That Will Change The World.”