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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…
The analysis highlights History, Culture, Works and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around PatientsLikeMe.
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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.
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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.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PatientsLikeMe | Current status | Active | 1.00 | infobox |
| PatientsLikeMe | Founded | 2004 | 1.00 | infobox |
| PatientsLikeMe | Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| PatientsLikeMe | Key people | Atul Dhir (CEO) | 1.00 | infobox |
| PatientsLikeMe | Launched | October 10, 2005 | 1.00 | infobox |
| PatientsLikeMe | Type of business | Private | 1.00 | infobox |
| PatientsLikeMe | Type of site | Social networking service | 1.00 | infobox |
| PatientsLikeMe | URL | patientslikeme.com | 1.00 | infobox |
| percentile curves on the patient profile | instance of | feature visual aids | 0.80 | text |
| so that an individual user can see whether their rate of progression is fast | instance of | feature visual aids | 0.80 | text |
| slow | instance of | feature visual aids | 0.80 | text |
| or about average | instance of | feature visual aids | 0.80 | text |
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.
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.
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