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Figure 1: Example of a PatientsLikeMe profile.

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    Catherine A Brownstein, David S Williams III, Paul Wicks & James A Heywood

  2. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Informatics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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C.B., D.S.W., P.W. and J.A.H. are employed by PatientsLikeMe and hold stock options in the company. As cofounder, J.A.H. is a significant stockholder. J.S.B. is married to C.B., an employee of the company.

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Brownstein, C., Brownstein, J., Williams, D. et al. The power of social networking in medicine. Nat Biotechnol 27, 888–890 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1009-888

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