PatientsLikeMe

PatientsLikeMe

Infobox Dotcom company
company_name = PatientsLikeMe
company_type = Private
foundation = 2004
location_city = flagicon|USA Cambridge, Massachusetts
location_country = USA
key_people = Ben Heywood, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jeff Cole, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer
James Heywood, Co-Founder, Chairman
company_slogan = "Patients Helping Patients Live Better Every Day"
url = [http://www.patientslikeme.com patientslikeme.com]
website_type = social networking
launch_date = October 10, 2005
current_status = Active

PatientsLikeMe is a social networking health site that enables its members to share treatment and symptom information in order to track and to learn from real-world outcomes. PatientsLikeMe currently has communities for ALS, MS, Parkinson's Disease, HIV, and mood disorders, as well as the rare conditions Progressive supranuclear palsy, Multiple system atrophy, and Devic's disease (neuromyelitis optica). The site was initially launched in 2005 when brothers James Heywood and Benjamin Heywood, whose brother Stephen Heywood was diagnosed with ALS in 1998, recognized the need for community-based information sharing around specific diseases.

In the time since, the company has expanded to 5 disease categories, with future plans to expand to many more. The company was named as one of the "15 Companies that Will Change the World" by Business 2.0 and CNN Money [ [http://www.patientslikeme.com/press/20070826 PatientsLikeMe : Press ] ] . It was also featured in a March, 2008 New York Time Magazine article entitled "Practicing Patients." [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/magazine/23patients-t.html?_r=2&oref=slogin PatientsLikeMe - Medicine - Doctors - Computers and the Internet - New York Times ] ]

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External links

* [http://www.patientslikeme.com/ PatientsLikeMe]


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