PatientsLikeMe News

"Leveling the Research Field Through Social Media" seems to support the use of Web sites such as PatientsLikeMe, where patients can give and receive medical advice, donate to research, and enroll as research subjects.

MIT's Technology Review has published its list of the 50 most innovative companies in 2012 from energy, transportation, computing, web & digital media, materials, and biomedicine.

I participated in an incredibly well organized and facilitated workshop on Brainstorming Design for Health: Helping Patients Utilize Patient-Generated Data on the Web on Saturday.

Greenbean Recycle, a Cambridge start-up that operates high tech recycling machines, brings its users together on a Facebook page.

Recruitment of patients to fill clinical trials is a time consuming and project-limiting task required for the completion of a medical study.