03.31.2015 - By Get Social Health with Janet Kennedy | Healthcare Marketing | Social Media
Patients Like Me is a health data-sharing platform that is transforming the way patients manage their own conditions. Sally Okun, VP Advocacy, Policy & Patient Safety at Patients Like Me visited Get Social Health to talk about how they want to change the way industry conducts research and improve patient care. The numbers of PatientsLikeMe.com are impressive:
300,000 members
2,300+ conditions
50+ published research studies
25 million data points about disease
Numbers aside, Sally shared the Patients Like Me mission to help patients connect in a peer-to-peer network. Through their mutual sharing and support patients can also share their personal health data with researchers and pharma companies to help find health solutions and improve outcomes.