PatientsLikeMe

Ella is powered by Ema and functions as a personal-engagement platform where patients can learn from other patients with similar experiences.

The health management company will integrate Ubie's symptom checker into its platform to support patients from symptom onset through treatment.

Members of the community health network will now have access to LetsGetChecked's suite of offerings via the PatientsLikeMe platform.

The online patient community portal will now be incorporated into UnitedHealth Group's research arm, which is focused on health innovation and improvement. 

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has flagged the company's Chinese ownership as a potential threat.

Online patient community PatientsLikeMe, which connects patients with different symptoms and conditions and collects patients' voluntarily submitted data for research, has teamed up with the FDA on a research study that could point the way toward a new channel for patient-generated health data for the agency.

Online network PatientsLikeMe, which serves as an information, support and study recruitment source for people living with chronic conditions, has secured $100 million in new funding, largely from a new partnership with health data and genomics company iCarbonX.

MedWatcher, from Epidemico.

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.

A recent column in the Harvard Business Review says that two kinds of business strategies will dominate in the gold rush-like healthcare economy of the future: Goldminers and Bartenders.