A Day in the Life of PatientsLikeMe Web Developer Adam Darowski

What’s it like to work at PatientsLikeMe?  We are continuing to reveal just that with our monthly blog series “A Day in the Life,” which features PatientsLikeMe employees from different departments.  Today we’d like to introduce you to Adam Darowski, a father of three who joined the technology team as a web developer exactly three years… Continue reading A Day in the Life of PatientsLikeMe Web Developer Adam Darowski

2011 “Wow Week” Highlights

Last June, we shared how our award-winning Clinical Trials tool was a product of “Wow Week,” which takes place every sixth week here at PatientsLikeMe.  It’s essentially our version of Google’s “20-percent time,” or a period of unstructured time where our engineers have the freedom to work on their own ideas.  We believe it fosters… Continue reading 2011 “Wow Week” Highlights

Data Mashups, “Wow Week” and the Fruits of Experimentation

Recently, I had the pleasure of helping to represent PatientsLikeMe at the 2nd Annual Health Data Initiative Forum, which is known as “Health Data-Palooza” to its friends.  (See our first blog post about this event here.) The forum was conceived as a way to showcase the wonderful things that people are achieving with open government… Continue reading Data Mashups, “Wow Week” and the Fruits of Experimentation

Tech Talk: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part IV – Tech)

The PatientsLikeMe engineering team is excited to highlight some of the work that went on behind the scenes in 2010 to make this site what it is today.  We tend to write more specifically about our work on a separate blog (http://tech.patientslikeme.com), so feel free to follow our work there as well. In addition to… Continue reading Tech Talk: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part IV – Tech)