| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.03.2025 | Ema and MyUTI Partner to Advance Women’s Health with AI-Powered Solutions | Mya, the new AI Health Assistant for MyUTI powered by Ema, is now live.
AI health assistant, powered by Ema, now live on MyUTI, providing women with instant, evidence-based support for UTI care and sexual health.
By combining AI-powered ins... |
| 09.01.2025 | Ema's AI Revolution: Transforming Women's Health with Empathy and Innovation | In a world where technology often feels cold and distant, Ema is a breath of fresh air. This innovative platform is reshaping women’s health by blending artificial intelligence with a deep understanding of women's unique needs. Recently, Em... |
| 08.01.2025 | Ema Closes Funding Round to Accelerate AI Innovation in Women’s Health, Bringing Total Funding to Over $3 Million | Ema, the first agentic AI platform designed to transform women’s health, announced the successful close of its most recent round, bringing total funding to over $3 million. From the start, Ema was trained on a proprietary dataset of 10 mill... |
| 21.12.2024 | The Future of Health: Bridging Science and Technology for Better Wellness | In the evolving landscape of health and wellness, two companies are making waves: Prenetics' IM8 and Ubie. Both are leveraging cutting-edge technology and partnerships to redefine how we approach health. Their recent initiatives highlight a... |
| 17.12.2024 | Ubie Growth in 2024 Driven by Industry Leading Recognition, Collaborations with Patient Advocacy Groups and an Expanded Reach of More Than 4 Million Users | Strategic investment from Google and acceptance into Mayo Clinic Platform Accelerate program show an increasing understanding of Ubie's value to patients and healthcare
Key platform innovations have led to increased user engagement, with a ... |
| 13.11.2024 | Ubie and PatientsLikeMe Join Forces to Enhance Patient Awareness, Education and Support from Pre-Diagnosis Through Treatment | ●The complementary platforms will help patients navigate their full healthcare journey, beginning with symptom identification and diagnosis through care support needs ●This partnership is vital for patients facing challenges in accessing ac... |
| 08.11.2023 | Company Launches To Combat Loneliness Through Virtual Peer Support Groups | Peer support groups can be a helpful crutch for people in need of empathy and social connection. But groups for individuals’ specific needs aren’t always easy to come by. Forum, a marketplace for peer support groups, aims to combat this iss... |
| 19.05.2023 | Roundups: Tampa General, Henry Ford, PatientsLikeMe, Other Digital Health Partnerships | Tampa General Hospital Teams Up with Navina
Tampa General Hospital (TGH) partners with AI-powered platform Navina to bring its transformative AI the health system’s primary care clinicians. Navina’s AI takes large amounts of patient data, i... |
| 01.12.2022 | Contributed: How digital health can improve cancer care delivery | Photo: FG Trade/Getty Images |
| 29.10.2021 | Facebook (now Meta) wants in on healthcare, but it’s too late | The news: Facebook is reportedly hiring multiple positions to develop its health technologies, per STAT.
The tech giant posted new California and New York-based roles on LinkedIn for health algorithm specialists, architects, and communicati... |
| 16.02.2021 | Personalized Patient Health Network PatientsLikeMe Raises $26 Million | PatientsLikeMe — one of the world’s largest integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform — announced it has raised $26 million in financing. These are the details.
PatientsLikeMe — one of the world’s largest integra... |
| 09.02.2021 | PatientsLikeMe Raises $26 Million | BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PatientsLikeMe, the world’s largest integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform, today announced it has raised $26 million in financing led by Alta Partners, Hambrecht Ducera Growth Venture... |
| 09.02.2021 | Leading Personalized Patient Health Network PatientsLikeMe Raises $26 Million to Support Next Phase of Growth | BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb 9, 2021–
PatientsLikeMe, the world’s largest integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform, today announced it has raised $26 million in financing led by Alta Partners, Hambrecht Ducera Gro... |
| 09.02.2021 | Leading Personalized Patient Health Network PatientsLikeMe Raises $26 Million to Support Next Phase of Growth | PatientsLikeMe, the world’s largest integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform, today announced it has raised $26 million in financing led by Alta Partners, Hambrecht Ducera Growth Ventures, Optum Ventures and PBM... |
| 02.09.2020 | Peer Medical allows lung cancer patients to anonymously share treatments with each other | Peer Medical has a big mission. After his father died of lung cancer, serial entrepreneur Ed Spiegel vowed to create a better way for lung cancer patients to deal with their disease. The startup has so far raised a $1.2 million seed funding... |
| 01.05.2020 | Crowdsourcing for clinical trials and to enhance medical diagnosis | The intent of clinical trials is to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of a drug to receive market approval, yet poor study design may impede this process. Medical professionals and scientific researchers currently write and execute m... |
| 04.04.2019 | Top startup news for today, Thursday, April 4, 2019 | Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Thursday, April 4.
Tesla vehicle sales dropped 31% in first quarter. With many negative comments about the Tesla Model 3 buyers, Tesla on Wednesday reported a massive drop in a... |
| 13.11.2018 | As social media ‘influencers,’ patients are getting a voice. And pharma is ready to pay up | Anne Marie Ciccarella is not a doctor, though she spends a great deal of time with them. She’s not a researcher, though she routinely pores over scientific papers on cancer. And even though she spent most of her career at an accounting firm... |
| 09.01.2018 | Andy Slavitt: When it comes to AI, it is the best of times, worst of times story | “To some extent, [AI] is a best of times, worst of times story.” He noted that medtech advancements could lead to people using 3D bioprinting to get a new liver or use predictive analytics to figure out what is the right topic to focus on w... |
| 12.12.2017 | After enduring medical hardship, Aetna’s CEO should ensure that CVS deal boosts patient power | To understand the potential impact on patients of CVS Health Corp.’s proposed $69 billion takeover of Aetna Inc., set aside the high-level analyses and consider for a minute the particular experiences of one patient.
He’s a man who donated ... |
| 14.06.2017 | What do patients want out of a healthcare law? | There has been unceasing talk of changes to the nation’s healthcare system. But as we watch legislators debate, we often forget to ask a crucial question: What do the people think?
A new poll from PatientsLikeMe, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-... |
| 13.01.2017 | Flex senior VP for digital health: Physicians are a forgotten piece of a lot of digital health solutions | The connected patient is the killer app of the digital age. That was an observation shared by Deborah Kilpatrick, Evidation Health CEO, in a panel discussion on the state of digital medicine at the Digital Medicine Showcase during the J.P. ... |
| 06.01.2017 | PatientsLikeMe Receives over $100M Equity Investment | PatientsLikeMe, a Cambridge, MA-based personalized health network, received an over $100m equity investment.
Digital life company iCarbonX and existing backer Invus made the minority equity investment.
Founded in 2015 by genomicist Jun Wang... |
| 05.01.2017 | PatientsLikeMe Partners with iCarbonX and Secures $100+ Million Investment | CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PatientsLikeMe, the world’s largest personalized health network, has entered into a broad-ranging partnership with digital life company iCarbonX to apply next generation biological measures and machine lea... |
| 05.01.2017 | PatientsLikeMe secures $100M, partners with health data company iCarbonX | Online network PatientsLikeMe, which serves as an information, support and study recruitment source for people living with chronic conditions, has secured $100 million in new funding, largely from a new partnership with health data and geno... |
| 05.01.2017 | PatientsLikeMe Partners with iCarbonX and Secures $100+ Million Investment | CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–January 5, 2017–
PatientsLikeMe, the world’s largest personalized health network, has entered into a broad-ranging partnership with digital life company iCarbonX to apply next generation biological measures ... |
| 27.10.2016 | Open-access ALS trial champions fast, not thorough | But the collaborative study design is also inexpensive, fast, and inclusive of ALS patients worldwide — attractive features for an industry struggling with high costs, long timelines, and late-stage clinical failures.
Dubbed the Lunasin Vir... |
| 14.10.2016 | 3 ways to make clinical trials more patient-centric | When T.J.had been diagnosed four years ago with stage IV melanoma, he knew his situation was severe and that his chances of survival were low. Fortunately for him, he had worked in the pharmaceutical industry earlier in his career and knew ... |
| 22.09.2016 | Faster registration, more transparency punctuate new HHS clinical trial final rule | “Companies filed their certificate and waited for FDA approval before disclosing,” said Jennifer Miller, assistant professor in the Division of Medical Ethics and Department of Population Health at NYU School of Medicine and principal inves... |
| 18.08.2016 | Distrustful of authority, a Holocaust survivor became a fierce critic of medical establishment | Don’t let Vera Sharav fool you. A former librarian, she’s diminutive and refined, partial to pearls, classical music, and ballet. But she’s also a streetfighter: one of the most effective and passionate — some would say extreme — advocates ... |
| 01.01.2016 | Facebook healthcare ambitions: 4 areas to watch in 2016 | In 2015, it received 8,310 would be study participants but only 3,702 were deemed eligible to provide a DNA sample, according to its latest blog post. Although it limited the amount of health data it provided to participants, wary of gettin... |
| 21.10.2015 | Patient input is proving to be crucial to the healthcare conversation | PatientsLikeMe has more than 350,000 patients who network with others who have the same disease or condition. Through this, data is continuously generated that can help researchers and others involved in development of new products, service... |
| 03.08.2015 | Disruption In Healthcare Could Be Costly | Megan Jones Contributor
Megan Jones, Psy.D, is a Stanford psychologist and chief science officer of Lantern. She is an expert in prevention and early intervention for mental health problems, and the use of technology to improve access to me... |
| 19.05.2015 | Interoperability feedback is in, what does a merged Aetna do to digital health? (Morning Read) | The big question when it comes to Aetna, these rumored acquisitions, and digital health, is whether, if Aetna buys Cigna or Humana, it will be interested in trying again with a preventative health, lifestyle play like HumanaVitality or Cign... |
| 13.04.2015 | AstraZeneca and PatientsLikeMe announce global research collaboration | AstraZeneca and PatientsLikeMe announce global research collaboration
13-04-2015
A five-year agreement is focused on improving health outcomes for patients across AstraZeneca’s main therapy areas.
In a major step forward to make patient-cen... |
| 03.02.2015 | The hidden digital health opportunities in Obamacare | I’ve worked in digital health for a while (I’m the co-founder of digital health start-up Care at Hand and a physician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center), so I was as surprised as you may be when I discovered a tough tr... |
| 17.10.2014 | How the crowd, not medical professionals, will lead the health-tech revolution | Technology has improved our ability to control many aspects of our lives — although, it’s done so more rapidly in some areas than others. So we can stream music and films where and when we choose and do our banking at 3 in the morning if we... |
| 07.10.2014 | Get set, marketers: You may need to lead your whole company into the network | As a 21st century brand, you’re on mobile. You’re on social networks. You’re tracking customer behavior and looking into brand new ways to target them. You’re on top of all this tech, right?
Actually, you’re only just getting started. You m... |
| 07.10.2014 | Get set, marketers: You may need to lead your whole company into the network | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As a 21st century brand, you’re on mobile. You’re... |
| 03.10.2014 | Facebook to create patient communities, create a Facebook for healthcare | People freely share a lot of personal information on Facebook, sometimes too much like those chronic Facebook posters we know so well. The burgeoning communities dedicated to people with common and rare conditions feels like a missed opport... |
| 14.09.2014 | How Merck’s Jain is helping pharma catch up to the digital health movement | Jain, who previously helped launch the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and served as a special assistant to the national coordinator for health IT, will deliver the opening keynote on day two of MedCity ENGAGE. He’ll be in good ... |
| 05.08.2014 | New pharma partner for PatientsLikeMe will gather insights from non-Hodgkins lymphoma patients | About 18 months ago, PatientsLikeMe developed its OpenResearchExchange to connect researchers designing clinical trials with patients to get their feedback on health measures. Its latest pharmaceutical partner Actelion Pharmaceuticals wants... |
| 21.07.2014 | LinkedIn for patient communities, HealthUnlocked, expands to U.S. | “Content is mostly about day-to-day management of the real issues of chronic illness,” Evans said. “It’s been remarkable that this type of content serves US citizens so well even when it’s not often from US patients. It took us by surprise!... |
| 18.06.2014 | PatientsLikeMe rolls out clinical trial collaboration tools to help patients work with pharma | Here’s a breakdown of the collaborative tools:
Trial Access deploys custom research programs to collect meaningful data and feedback on the design of clinical trials. It also includes a repository of patient opinions and attitudes about par... |
| 24.03.2014 | The Quantified Us: Between Big and Small Data, Between the Quantified Self and the Crowd | For a dedicated minority, the ‘Quantified Self’ era has been met with enthusiasm. Not only can massive datasets about oneself be a route to enhanced self-discovery, they can also be a tool for running self-experiments and figuring out how t... |
| 24.03.2014 | RWJF’s Flip The Clinic wants to take the frustration out of the standard doctor visit | Flip the Clinic is similar to Flip the Classroom where lessons are watched at home and then discussed in the classroom. Flip the Clinic is meant to make the time doctors and patients spend together in the same room more valuable – less lect... |
| 11.03.2014 | PatientsLikeMe wants to convince patients to share health data through social media campaign | A critical part of its campaign rests on the findings of a PatientsLikeMe survey — that 94 percent of patients on social media are willing to share their healthcare data. That willingness comes with a proviso, their privacy has to be protec... |
| 25.02.2014 | Patient-generated health data: Is health care ready to absorb it? | By Israel Green-Hopkins
Israel Green-Hopkins, MD, is a second-year fellow in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and a fierce advocate for innovation in health information technology, with a passion for design, mobile... |
| 04.02.2014 | Social entrepreneurship for cancer patients focus of Livestrong crowdsourcing challenge | Here’s what the schedule looks like:
The deadline for applications is May 15.
The top 150 entries will be whittled down to 20.
Those groups will advance to the accelerator phase from July 14-Sept. 15. They will be paired with cancer survivo... |
| 28.01.2014 | Patient-centric clinical trial recruitment tools want to eliminate [medical] language barrier | Reg4all or Registries for All, takes a more indirect approach to clinical trials. It was developed by Genetic Alliance with some backing from Sanofi to provide a matchmaking service for patients and clinical trials. Participants can control... |
| 23.10.2013 | The top online health services for consumers | Digital health is booming. A number of web-based and mobile service companies are bringing transparency to health care.
Instead of selecting a doctor based on a friend’s recommendation, you can now peruse anonymous reviews. Rather than call... |
| 08.10.2013 | Social network platform designed to help hospitals collaborate on health IT issues | In an interview with MedCity News, DeFord said he has learned from his professional experience the importance of collaboration.At Stewart Healthcare where he was CIO, he said he loved collaborating across other departments but added “I hate... |
| 30.09.2013 | Which of these 8 ideas to transform healthcare will Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fund? | Just say no to communication breakdown Fred Trotter of Not Only Development wants to improve the flow of medical information. That includes improving health literacy by helping people better understand their healthcare, which can lead to in... |
| 13.09.2013 | New social media platform for healthcare wants to connect hospitals with each other | Q: Why did you form the company?
Lopez: “Healthcare is such a challenging industry today, the best and brightest should be collaborating together to solve healthcare industry’s toughest operational problems. The communities that will be cre... |
| 20.06.2013 | Boston Roundup: EMC, TripAdvisor, PatientsLikeMe, Skillz, Bricklin | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A mini-flurry of tech industry news happening this week:
—It looks like EMC may be acquiring an Israel-based startup as it continues to grow in cloud computing. The report com... |
| 09.05.2013 | The 600-Hour Data Dilemma For Healthcare | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The healthcare industry is slow moving. While beginning to adopt technology for logistical issues including electronic medical records and appointment scheduling, the focus of... |
| 26.02.2013 | Patient-centered outcomes for clinical trials get a boost with RWJF’s $1.9M grant to PatientsLikeMe | In a move that could impact clinical trial design, PatientsLikeMe has received a $1.9 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to set up an open-source platform to measure health outcomes for medical conditions that reflect pat... |
| 16.01.2013 | Medicine 2.0: Social media and your health forum Feb. 4 in Vancouver | Article content
First came Dr. Google.
To be soon followed by physician Facebook and Twitter therapeutics.
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| 07.01.2013 | PatientSafe raises $20 million Series C | Company is dedicated to improving hospital safety with its PatientTouch platform
Healthcare solutions company PatientSafe has raised a $20 million Series C round of financing it was announced Monday.
The round was led by the Merck Global He... |
| 03.01.2013 | Boston News Roundup: Consumer United, Kyruus, Nara, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Some pieces of Boston-area innovation news that have been kicking around in the post-holiday lull, now fresh for consideration:
—Consumer United, a Boston-based company that p... |
| 25.10.2012 | Health 2.0 Conference: Big Data Making A Big Impact | At the end of the Health 2.0 Conference earlier this month, I sat down with the event’s co-founders Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya to discuss the big trends. I’d been impressed and excited by the innovation demonstrated at Health 2.0. It tur... |
| 27.09.2012 | Installing an App on Your Genome: 23andMe Opens Up to Developers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Thousands of adventurous souls have signed up to have their DNA sequenced by companies like 23andMe, Navigenics, and Iceland’s deCODEme—businesses that appeal to the curiosity... |
| 21.08.2012 | Healthy Labs creates social networks for diseases | Website is meant to bring people with similar illnesses together to help each other
Healthcare has been a red-hot topic the last few years. For better or for worse, people feel very passionate about their health, and, understandably, they b... |
| 15.08.2012 | 5 things that have influenced pharmaceutical digital marketing expansion | The recession: The need to scale back advertising spend was the obligatory pebble in the water that prompted pharmaceutical companies to take a hard look at their TV and print advertising spend and turn their heads to the relatively lower c... |
| 13.08.2012 | Merck’s partnership with PatientsLikeMe could offer innovative way forward for drug development | Big pharma company Merck (NYSE:MRK) has formed a collaboration with an online patient community platform to measure the impact of psoriasis on patients and develop ways to improve outcomes in a sign that pharmaceutical companies are seeing ... |
| 09.08.2012 | Online community PatientsLikeMe gets $2 million in new equity investments | Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Solution/product: A health data-sharing community for patients. On PatientsLikeMe, users share their health experiences and outcomes. The company then aggregates certain data and sells it to companies tha... |
| 19.06.2012 | Match.coms of clinical trials make it easier to connect patients, researchers | The formula for these recruiting sites is pretty standard: Aggregate sometimes-incomplete data from ClinicalTrials.gov, fill in missing data, develop a search algorithm and filter, and organize the data for certain audiences.
Earlier this y... |
| 06.12.2011 | Using dynamics from gaming to improve people’s health | Games lure people to make visits at specific
times… can they help patients keep medical
appointments?
By Sarah Mahoney
This past October I attended the Health 2.0 conference, where there was a lot of discussion on the use of niche social ne... |
| 14.05.2011 | Crowdsourcing discovery: Scientists tap citizenry for data collection | By Tom Ulrich
What do a project cataloging pictures of galaxies, an RNA folding game, and a call for people with diabetes to contribute data all have in common?
Each is part of a new revolution in science. Called "citizen science"... |
| 30.04.2011 | Disruptive technology: Advanced computing comes to health care | By Keeley Wray
The recent Bio-IT World meeting featured some exciting forecasts about disruptive healthcare advances from advanced computing technology.
We’re closer than ever to process streamlining, artificial intelligence and combining t... |
| 26.04.2011 | Crowdsourcing a clinical trial to treat ALS | reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating
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| 10.02.2010 | PatientsLikeMe Growing as Pharma Customers Boost Focus on Patients | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There’s a quilt hanging on the wall at PatientsLikeMe, made with different patches of fabric from members of the firm’s online community of multiple sclerosis patients. “We ha... |
| 09.10.2009 | Fresh from Health 2.0: two dozen of the most innovative new health apps | The Health 2.0 conference is probably the only “2.0” conference that doesn’t belong to the O’Reilly empire (it was founded by healthcare visionaries Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya in 2007). However, like many of the other “2.0” conferences, ... |
| 24.09.2009 | Health care: It’s time for technology | This is part of a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will VentureBeat writers and outside experts.
Here’s a sobering thought: I can walk into ... |
| 20.05.2009 | Health Community Trusera Officially Closes Its Doors | Trusera, a health 2.0 community where users can share their stories about how they’ve dealt with health conditions, is officially closing its doors on May 27, according to a blog post on the site. We originally reported on Trusera’s possibl... |
| 17.02.2009 | Medpedia's Health Platform Could Be Just What The Doctor Ordered | Medpedia Project, an initiative we wrote about during its private beta launch, has unveiled a public version of its trustworthy, fully transparent technology platform for the worldwide health community. Combining social networking with Web ... |
| 23.12.2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| 22.12.2008 | Best LittleCo of 2008 & Most Promising for 2009 | Every year we do a review of the top Internet companies, to identify the ones that had the biggest impact. Last week we announced that Apple was our choice for Best BigCo of 2008. Today we’re announcing Best LittleCo and Most Promising Comp... |
| 19.12.2008 | Top Web Apps for the Real World: Seattle and Boston Startups Make 2008 List | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle and Boston, two of Xconomy’s network cities, have something extra to be proud of today—at least when it comes to Internet startups. Each city contributed two companies... |
| 17.12.2008 | Top 10 Real World Web Apps of 2008 | Here at ReadWriteWeb, we love to talk about the latest and greatest Web 2.0 applications. However, while a lot of these services make our life on the Internet a lot easier, another group of services on the web helps to keep our offline life... |
| 26.11.2008 | MyMedLab: Are You Qualified to Interpret Your Lab Tests? | On Monday we reviewed the state of health 2.0 and it was also the topic of this week’s RWW Live, our live podcast show. At the end of the podcast, I asked all the panelists to list their favorite health 2.0 app (about the 58:30 mark if you ... |
| 11.10.2008 | WeAre.Us is (Almost) Like Ning, But With A Heart. Wins First VenCorps Prize. | When you are suffering from a chronic disease, sometimes the only people who can understand what you are going through are other people with the same condition. But when that condition is rare, it can be difficult to find them. WeAre.Us wan... |
| 06.10.2008 | TheKnot for diseases and a travel concierge | Esther Dyson helps us evaluate Careflash and Yapta
In this episode, we look at health care and travel startups. Who better to look at startups in these industries than Esther Dyson, an angel investor in a number of startups in these areas. ... |
| 16.06.2008 | Trusera launches social network for health advice | Updated
Family and friends are usually crucial when dealing with medical problems, so it’s no surprise that there are a lot of companies trying to bring online social networking to the medical world. We’ve cast a skeptical eye on some and a... |
| 24.09.2007 | Three ways to tap “wisdom of crowds”: Attendi, CoComment, RelevantMind | Companies presenting at this week’s DEMOfall conference point to a trend: A growing number of Websites designed to collect and index the everyday interactions of surfers, from casual conversations to blog comments,
The idea is to draw from ... |
| 20.09.2007 | Caring.com, a site for caregivers, to launch this week | (Update: Turns out, Care.com, a very similarly named site, has just raised $2M. More below.)
Caring.com, a Silicon Valley web site aimed to help people care for aging parents, plans to launch its Web site Friday, and has raised $6 million i... |
| 18.06.2007 | Online health getting hot, DailyStrength raises millions quickly | updated
Over 113 million Americans search for health information online, and internet companies dealing with consumer health are drawing lots of attention.
Santa-Cruz, Calif. based DailyStrength, the social network that connects people thro... |
| - | Facebook healthcare ambitions: 4 areas to watch in 2016 | Facebook has been making tentative steps in the health tech realm. I’m not referring to Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic ambitions. But the social media network has demonstrated an interest in some diverse areas from genomic testing to publi... |
| - | PatientsLikeMe wants to convince patients to share health data through social media campaign | If consumers knew the impact their health data could have on advancing scientific research, would they be willing to donate it? That’s the goal of a healthcare marketing campaign by PatientsLikeMe. It’s launched a series of public service a... |
| - | Patient input is proving to be crucial to the healthcare conversation | Getting direct input from patients in order to provide optimal care, address unmet needs and recognize potential challenges is important, and it’s being implemented in different, more focused ways now.
Devising credible, diverse patient adv... |
| - | 5 things that have influenced pharmaceutical digital marketing expansion | Pharmaceutical companies have been increasing their investment in digital marketing strategies including websites, e-marketing and social media, despite the potential risks that lurk just below the surface like so many stinging jellyfish th... |
| - | Andy Slavitt: When it comes to AI, it is the best of times, worst of times story | Artificial intelligence is the kind of topic that brings out the inner geek in all of us. There is so much excitement about its potential applications and where it will have the greatest traction to the point where the conversation inevitab... |
| - | How Merck’s Jain is helping pharma catch up to the digital health movement | Big Pharma has a reputation of being late to the digital health game. Slowly but surely, that’s changing.
Pfizer is working with a game lab on a clinical trial of a video game designed to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Janssen H... |
| - | PatientsLikeMe rolls out clinical trial collaboration tools to help patients work with pharma | Patients don’t much care for the way clinical trials are designed. That was one of the findings of a patient-centered survey that reinforced PatientsLikeMe’s plan to roll out a group of collaborative programs. They are designed to make it e... |
| - | Online community PatientsLikeMe gets $2 million in new equity investments | Company name: PatientsLikeMe.
Industry: Digital health.
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Solution/product: A health data-sharing community for patients. On PatientsLikeMe, users share their health experiences and outcomes. The company th... |
| - | What do patients want out of a healthcare law? | There has been unceasing talk of changes to the nation’s healthcare system. But as we watch legislators debate, we often forget to ask a crucial question: What do the people think?
A new poll from PatientsLikeMe, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-... |
| - | Facebook to create patient communities, create a Facebook for healthcare | People freely share a lot of personal information on Facebook, sometimes too much like those chronic Facebook posters we know so well. The burgeoning communities dedicated to people with common and rare conditions feels like a missed opport... |
| - | Interoperability feedback is in, what does a merged Aetna do to digital health? (Morning Read) | TOP STORIES
ONC published feedback from the first draft of its Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap. You can review them all here.
So what would an Aetna acquisition of either Humana or Cigna do to the digital health landscape?
The bi... |
| - | LinkedIn for patient communities, HealthUnlocked, expands to U.S. | The rise of patient communities have taken root on the borderless geography of the Internet. But there are so many that some companies have spotted an opportunity to organize them to better direct would-be users. HealthUnlocked is a UK-base... |
| - | Which of these 8 ideas to transform healthcare will Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fund? | Improving health literacy and patient engagement and developing alternative ways to appraise apps and physicians are among the ideas that have reached the finals of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation competition. The people and companies behi... |
