How do you make sense of all the information and stories that come with chronic illness? That’s exactly the challenge that the Patient Experience Team has taken on at PatientsLikeMe. Our goal is to create data visualizations that help you gain insight into your health, recognize emerging patterns and learn from one another’s experiences. Recently,… Continue reading Turning Stories into Data…and Data into Knowledge
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The Social and Emotional Choices You Make Every Day as a Patient
As David Williams discussed in his blog on Monday, we all have to make choices. And for patients like you living with serious medical conditions, there are obvious treatment and career decisions that you have to make—finding the right doctor, deciding which treatment options to try and determining if it’s still possible for you to… Continue reading The Social and Emotional Choices You Make Every Day as a Patient
One for All: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part 1)
Thanks everyone for a great 2010. As we kick off the New Year, PatientsLikeMe would like to take a quick look back at the road we’ve traveled together this year. We think of all these improvements as laying the groundwork for even more exciting changes to come in 2011. At the start of 2010, we… Continue reading One for All: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part 1)
To spit or not to spit (openness gets personal)
Over the past seven months of working at PatientsLikeMe, I’ve come to think that the idea of sharing medical and health information is completely normal. Since giving birth to my nearly 3 year old daughter, I have continued to be eternally grateful to other mothers who have willingly and openly shared their deeply personal experiences… Continue reading To spit or not to spit (openness gets personal)