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PatientsLikeMe: History, Culture, Works & Companies

PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is a health management and social networking website. The platform currently has over 830,000 members who are dealing with more than 2,900 conditions, such as ALS, MS, and epilepsy. Data generated by patients themselves are collected and quantified with the goal of providing an environment for peer support and learning. These data…

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PatientsLikeMe topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Culture, Works and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around PatientsLikeMe.

Related topics
47
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
54
Extracted relationships
173
Concept neighborhoods
18
Bridge connections
54

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Expansion beyond ALS · 13 topics
Products and services · 10 topics
History · 8 topics
Awards and recognition · 6 topics
Corporate affairs and culture · 6 topics
Scientific work · 3 topics
Overview · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
2004
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Current status
Active
Key people
Atul Dhir (CEO)
Launched
October 10, 2005
Type of business
Private

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Expansion beyond ALS

Products and services

Scientific work

Corporate affairs and culture

Awards and recognition

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How PatientsLikeMe connects Entity context

The extracted context around PatientsLikeMe shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, PatientsLikeMe → ALS/MND Associations, Ben Heywood, Biotech, Business, CBS Evening News, CNN Money, CNN's The Next List, Companies That Will Change, Distinction, Dr, Fast Company, FierceHealthIT, Humanitarian Award, In, In January, International Alliance, Jamie, Jeopardy, Later, March Another extracted example is PatientsLikeMe → ALS, Answers, Being, California, Department, Diagnosis, Finally, Given, HIV, MS, On, Parkinson's, Patients, San Francisco, Some, The, There, Three, University, Veteran Affairs. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

PatientsLikeMe

Top relations

related to Awards and recognition · 34
PatientsLikeMe → ALS/MND Associations, Ben Heywood, Biotech, Business, CBS Evening News, CNN Money, CNN's The Next List, Companies That Will Change, Distinction, Dr, Fast Company, FierceHealthIT, Humanitarian Award, In, In January, International Alliance, Jamie, Jeopardy, Later, March
related to Online data-sharing platform · 20
PatientsLikeMe → ALS, Answers, Being, California, Department, Diagnosis, Finally, Given, HIV, MS, On, Parkinson's, Patients, San Francisco, Some, The, There, Three, University, Veteran Affairs
related to Expansion beyond ALS · 19
PatientsLikeMe → ALS, December, Devic's, For, From, HIV, However, In, In April, MS, MS Rating Scale, MSRS, Of, Parkinson's, PatientsLikeMe's, The, Today, United States, US
related to Open Research Exchange · 16
PatientsLikeMe → Behavior Assessment Tool, During, FDA, Following, In, MS, National Quality Forum, Open Research Exchange, ORE, PROs, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, RWJF, SIBAT, Suicide Ideation, The, Treatment Burden Questionnaire
related to Scientific work · 13
PatientsLikeMe → BMJ, Creative Commons, Harvard Business Review, In, Instruments, MS Rating Scale, MS Treatment Adherence Questionnaire, Nature Biotechnology, Neurology, PatientsLikeMe's, The, This, Wherever
related to history · 12
PatientsLikeMe → After, ALS, ALS Therapy Development Institute, Ben Heywood, However, Jamie, Jeff Cole, Lou Gehrig's, Stephen Heywood, Stephen's, The, They
related to Business model · 10
PatientsLikeMe → Acorda Therapeutics, AstraZeneca, Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Describing, Genentech, Novartis, Sanofi, The, Typical, UCB
Current status · 1
PatientsLikeMe → Active
Founded · 1
PatientsLikeMe → 2004
Headquarters · 1
PatientsLikeMe → Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

patients als research data health company treatment disease new patient members study site symptoms clinical epilepsy online scientific platform ms

PatientsLikeMe relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 173 structured relationships around PatientsLikeMe. Examples in this analysis include PatientsLikeMe → Current status → Active and PatientsLikeMe → Founded → 2004. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PatientsLikeMeCurrent statusActive1.00infobox
PatientsLikeMeFounded20041.00infobox
PatientsLikeMeHeadquartersCambridge, Massachusetts, United States1.00infobox
PatientsLikeMeKey peopleAtul Dhir (CEO)1.00infobox
PatientsLikeMeLaunchedOctober 10, 20051.00infobox
PatientsLikeMeType of businessPrivate1.00infobox
PatientsLikeMeType of siteSocial networking service1.00infobox
PatientsLikeMeURLpatientslikeme.com1.00infobox
percentile curves on the patient profileinstance offeature visual aids0.80text
so that an individual user can see whether their rate of progression is fastinstance offeature visual aids0.80text
slowinstance offeature visual aids0.80text
or about averageinstance offeature visual aids0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around PatientsLikeMe bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Research, Disease and Patients. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • PatientsLikeMe
    • Research
    • Disease
    • Patients
    • Company
    • Data
    • Services
    • Als
    • Companies
    • Scientific
    • Site
    • Study
    • Business
  • patientslikeme
    • Research
    • Disease
    • Patients
    • Company
    • Data
    • Services
    • Als
    • Companies
    • Scientific
    • Site
    • Study
    • Business
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als)
    • Slow
    • Online
    • Clinical
    • Patients
    • Disease
    • Community
    • Trial
    • Site
    • Patientslikeme
    • Data
    • Ms
    • Platform
  • als therapy development institute
    • Slow
    • Online
    • Clinical
    • Ms
    • Published
    • Patients
    • Disease
    • Community
    • Trial
    • New
    • Site
    • Treatment
  • online community
    • Research
    • Ms
    • Community
    • Online
    • Social
    • Patients
    • Scientific
    • Clinical
    • New
    • Site
    • Disease
    • Patient
  • parkinson's disease
    • Services
    • Developed
    • Company
    • Measures
    • Patientslikeme
    • Slow
    • Ms
    • Research
    • Online
    • Site
    • Symptoms
    • Patients
  • devic's disease
    • Services
    • Developed
    • Company
    • Measures
    • Patientslikeme
    • Slow
    • Ms
    • Research
    • Online
    • Site
    • Symptoms
    • Patients
  • fast company
    • Companies
    • Disease
    • Patientslikeme
    • Measures
    • Research
    • Patient
    • Health
    • Data
    • Patients
    • Conditions
    • Services
    • Community

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For PatientsLikeMe, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects PatientsLikeMe with Expansion beyond ALS. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
PatientsLikeMeExpansion beyond ALS · splits 41 ⟂ 14
PatientsLikeMeProducts and services · splits 44 ⟂ 11
PatientsLikeMeHistory · splits 46 ⟂ 9
PatientsLikeMeCorporate affairs and culture · splits 48 ⟂ 7
PatientsLikeMeAwards and recognition · splits 48 ⟂ 7
PatientsLikeMeScientific work · splits 51 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

PatientsLikeMe

Nodes55
Edges54
Triples173
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.036364
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around PatientsLikeMe to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Culture, Works & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — PatientsLikeMe · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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