In August, we proudly announced that our Research & Development Director, Dr. Paul Wicks, PhD, had been named “Humanitarian of the Year” and a TR35 Honoree by MIT Technology Review magazine. This week, he received both awards at MIT’s annual Emtech event, a two-day conference focused on emerging technologies held at MIT’s Boston campus. Below… Continue reading Watch Our Very Own “Humanitarian of the Year,” Dr. Paul Wicks, PhD
Category: Patient Experiences
Recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Have you been seeing pink this month – such as on the lids of your Yoplait yogurt? That’s because it’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a partnership of numerous organizations working together to promote breast cancer awareness, share information on the disease and provide greater access to screening services. Here at PatientsLikeMe, we have 147… Continue reading Recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness Month
What Patients Are Saying About Physical Therapy
Mobile. Active. Independent. How close are you or the patient in your life to those attributes? October is National Physical Therapy Month, which is designed the highlight the role of physical therapy (PT) in restoring and improving motion. According to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), the benefits can include enhanced quality of life as… Continue reading What Patients Are Saying About Physical Therapy
Mental Illness Awareness Week: Stigmas, Stereotypes and Sharing
On Tuesday, we recognized Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 2-8) by sharing some of our mental health members’ vivid descriptions of what depression feels like. Today, we’ve taken a look at what else our members are sharing – or not sharing – about more than a dozen mental health conditions at PatientsLikeMe. On the site,… Continue reading Mental Illness Awareness Week: Stigmas, Stereotypes and Sharing
What We Took Away from e-Patient Connections
Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, provided the perfect backdrop for e-Patient Connections 2011, a two day summit about reaching and engaging both patients and their caregivers in the digital age. Right away conference organizers set the tone that the patient voice should be our focus by introducing respected e-patient bloggers and advocates, such as… Continue reading What We Took Away from e-Patient Connections
Be of Good Heart Today
Today, September 29th, is World Heart Day. Sponsored by the World Heart Federation, this annual event was started in 2000 to raise awareness about heart disease and stroke, the world’s leading cause of death with more than 17.1 million lives lost each year. All around the globe, activities such as talks, screenings, walks, concerts and… Continue reading Be of Good Heart Today
How Privacy Impacts Personalized Medicine
“We are standing on the edge of a new information age, and this new information age is going to clash with our existing understanding of concepts such as privacy and how we think about healthcare data and what should be done with it.” – Jamie Heywood PatientsLikeMe Chairman Jamie Heywood recently traveled to Zurich, Switzerland,… Continue reading How Privacy Impacts Personalized Medicine
PatientsLikeMeOnCall: Monitoring Health Hazards with Modern Tools
Welcome to the fifth installment of our latest PatientsLikeMeOnCall podcast series, entitled “It’s Friday – Let’s Journal Club.” This week’s guest is Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, Deputy Director of the Division of Notifiable Diseases and Healthcare Information at the CDC. He came by PatientsLikeMe headquarters recently to discuss the BioSense project, an initiative launched following 9/11… Continue reading PatientsLikeMeOnCall: Monitoring Health Hazards with Modern Tools
Our Pledge to You, the Patient
“We founded PatientsLikeMe on the concept that sharing health data could lead to a more empowered patient and better overall healthcare system. It’s an exciting and giant step forward for us as an industry as we unite around making health data more accessible to those that matter most – the patients.” – Ben Heywood, PatientsLikeMe… Continue reading Our Pledge to You, the Patient