online patient community

Small study: Online patient community boosts self-efficacy, self-management among epilepsy patients
By Jonah Comstock | 12:03 pm | June 24, 2015
A small study of veterans with epilepsy, conducted by PatientsLikeMe and sponsored by pharmaceutical company UCB, shows that an online patient community can increase self-efficacy and self-management of patients.
Patient community to help study effect of wearables, peer support for CHF patients
By Jonah Comstock | 06:47 am | May 05, 2015
Mountain View, California-based Amiigo, which makes an activity tracker that raised $580,000 on Indiegogo in 2013, has teamed up with online patient community platform Alliance Health to launch a new study looking at the combined effect of wearables and peer support on heart failure patients.