PatientsLikeMe is a patient powered research network that improves lives and a real-time research platform that advances medicine.[1] On PatientsLikeMe’s network, people connect with others who have the same disease or condition and track and share their own experiences. In the process, they generate data about the real-world nature of disease that help researchers, pharmaceutical companies, regulators, providers and nonprofits develop more effective products, services and care.