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June 12, 2011, 3:36am
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PatientsLikeMe is, as wikipedia describes it, “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.”
They have now added a feature to streamline the often complicated process of getting enrolled in a clinical study for new drugs and other treatments.
Today, PatientsLikeMe announces the launch of a new feature that helps patients find clinical trials that are right for them and helps companies find patients who are right for their trial. The feature, which updates daily with all of the trial information listed on ClinicalTrial.gov , will automatically match up members of the website with every clinical trial they may be eligible for based on their conditions and location.
“It’s difficult for patients to find trials and for investigators to find patients,” says Jamie Heywood, co-founder and chairman of PatientsLikeMe. “We can help solve both of those problems by telling each of our 100,000+ patients what trials they’re eligible for and by showing each trial sponsor how many patients they can reach.”
One risk to this may be that in actively seeking enrollment, they may break the recruitment model, ruling themselves out.