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Creating A New Kind Of Health Care Community
Renee Hopkins Callahan, 03.03.09, 02:00 PM EST
Today On Forbes.com


If people are willing to sacrifice their privacy, PatientsLikeMe could become an invaluable community for those with medical conditions.


http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/03/pat...tor_month.html

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Companies turn to web 2.0 to recruit for trials
March 3, 2009 — 2:33pm ET | By Calisha Myers




Patient recruitment companies are reinventing the patient-to-trial matchmaking service of yesteryear with a new approach that meets prospects where they are increasingly spending their time--on social networking sites. Not only are companies creating web applications for such popular sites as Myspace and Facebook, but the companies running these sites have also begun exploring the idea of creating business plans around clinical trial recruitment, Matthew Holt, founder and author of The Health Care Blog, tells Bio-IT World.




http://www.fiercebiotech.com/story/c...als/2009-03-03