SmartPatients

How Genentech taps into online patient communities to improve clinical trials

By Jonah Comstock 05:24 am September 23, 2014

Roche subsidiary Genentech is no stranger to online patient communities -- the pharma company signed a five-year data access deal with online patient community company PatientsLikeMe in April. At the Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara this week, Genentech product development leader Joling Mew spoke about the ways that Genentech has worked with PatientsLikeMe, and other online patient...

The MobiHealthNews Podcast: Self-Diagnosis

By Brian Dolan 05:01 am February 28, 2013

Today I'm very excited to announce our latest offering: The MobiHealthNews Podcast. This month MobiHealthNews writer Jonah Comstock and I interviewed a half dozen people about trends surrounding "self-diagnosis", which is at the heart of so much of what we write about here at MobiHealthNews. The concept of self-diagnosis has existed for at least as long as the concept of the medical professional...