The medical establishment has finally realized that if you want to know how patients feel about their lives, you need to speak to them! And they recognize that our patient experience is VALUABLE, so they're willing to pay for our time.

But it can feel like you're only there to share your complaints and problems. And you are more than your health condition!

My guests today work at Merakoi, an agency that enables healthcare companies to collaborate with patient experts and their communities across multiple diseases and geographies. 

For me, the key word in that description is collaborate. 

Merakoi recognizes that patient advocates are highly skilled professionals with lived disease experience. So by getting to know their community, Merakoi ensures patients are enabled to deliver real-life insights and creative solutions to the projects that they work on. It's not just about sharing your problems, you get the opportunity to bring your skills across the entire product development lifecycle! 

I think Merakoi is offering a uniquely human-centric way for patient advocates to work with health solution providers. So I'm proud that they are working closely with Patients Getting Paid, posting many of their opportunities with the PGP Community. It's another reason to join today!

In this episode:

• Where the idea for Merakoi came from
• Kathy's early experiences of patient advocacy, and why working with Merakoi is different 
• How patient experts are recruited, and how they are selected for each project
• The big question! How much do patient experts get paid?
• Details of Merakoi opportunities inside the Patients Getting Paid community

Full notes and resources at https://patientsgettingpaid.com/blog/getting-patients-paid-merakoi