“PatientsLikeMe” by www.patientslikeme.com received an Award of Distinction in the Digital Communities category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2008.
“PatientsLikeMe ” is about using community tools to force new and productive collaborations between patients, healtheare providers, advocacy groups and intervention developers, to serve a patient-driven agenda of living beyond the boundaries traditionally associated with chronic illness and disease.
About www.patientslikeme.com
In 1999, at the age of 29, Stephen Heywood was diagnosed with the terminal muscle-wasting disease ALS. Inspired by Stephen’s experiences with the disease, his brothers Ben and Jamie Heywood, along with family friend Jeff Cole, designed an online community for…
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