Inspire (company): Difference between revisions
| Line 48: | Line 48: | ||
== Awards and Recognition == |
== Awards and Recognition == |
||
The Washington Post profiled Brian Loew in April 2017 around the time Inspire's membership surpassed one million patients and caregivers. <ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/more-than-a-million-patients-flock-to-this-website-drug-companies-are-in-hot-pursuit/2017/04/27/7b533944-29ec-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html More than a million patients flock to this website. Drug companies are in hot pursuit.] 28 April 2017 </ref> |
The Washington Post profiled Brian Loew in April 2017 around the time Inspire's membership surpassed one million patients and caregivers. <ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/more-than-a-million-patients-flock-to-this-website-drug-companies-are-in-hot-pursuit/2017/04/27/7b533944-29ec-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html More than a million patients flock to this website. Drug companies are in hot pursuit.] 28 April 2017 </ref> The article states, "Loew and his company are attached to the surge of patient assertiveness, with more people questioning their health care and taking more of the responsibility out of the hands of professionals." |
||
Brian Loew has been named to PharmaVOICE magazine's "PharmaVOICE 100" two times, once in 2014 and again in 2016, for his contributions to the life sciences industry.<ref>[http://www.pharmavoice.com/digital-edition/julyaugust-2016/#32/ Brian Loew: Inspiring Patient Connections] 1 August 2016 </ref> |
Brian Loew has been named to PharmaVOICE magazine's "PharmaVOICE 100" two times, once in 2014 and again in 2016, for his contributions to the life sciences industry.<ref>[http://www.pharmavoice.com/digital-edition/julyaugust-2016/#32/ Brian Loew: Inspiring Patient Connections] 1 August 2016 </ref> |
||
Revision as of 20:29, 28 April 2017
 | This article, Inspire (company), has recently been created via the Articles for creation process. Please check to see if the reviewer has accidentally left this template after accepting the draft and take appropriate action as necessary.
Reviewer tools: Inform author |
| This article, Inspire (company), has recently been created via the Articles for creation process. Please check to see if the reviewer has accidentally left this template after accepting the draft and take appropriate action as necessary.
Reviewer tools: Inform author |
| This article, Inspire (company), has recently been created via the Articles for creation process. Please check to see if the reviewer has accidentally left this template after accepting the draft and take appropriate action as necessary.
Reviewer tools: Inform author |
| This article, Inspire (company), has recently been created via the Articles for creation process. Please check to see if the reviewer has accidentally left this template after accepting the draft and take appropriate action as necessary.
Reviewer tools: Inform author |
| This article, Inspire (company), has recently been created via the Articles for creation process. Please check to see if the reviewer has accidentally left this template after accepting the draft and take appropriate action as necessary.
Reviewer tools: Inform author |
Comment: Let me be frank and say this is still too soon for any actual notability, I would not resubmit because there's simply not going to be enough substance for establishing both a convincing and notable article. SwisterTwister talk 03:47, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
- Comment: Passing mentions in reliable sources can be used to verify content in the draft, but do not serve to demonstrate topic notability. North America1000 22:23, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
- Comment: I'm still not confident about accepting this, please add any additional amount of in-depth third-party news sources overall, but please no press releases or trivial passing mentions. SwisterTwister talk 20:25, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
- Comment: Still needs any additional amount of in-depth third-party news sources overall, but no press releases or trivial passing mentions. SwisterTwister talk 05:34, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
 | A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. |
Inspire is an Arlington, VA-based healthcare social network. It builds and manages online support groups for patients and caregivers, and connects patients to life science companies for the purpose of research.
Overview
Founded in 2005, the company serves more than one million patients and caregivers in several hundred online support groups.[1] [2] These online groups are are mostly organized around a single condition, such as psoriasis, ovarian cancer, or lung cancer.
Online health communities like Inspire are referenced as components of the empowered patient, or e-patient movement. [3][4]
History
Brian Loew, Amir Lewkowicz and Walter Wlodarczyk, founded Inspire. It was first known as ClinicaHealth.
As of early 2017, the Inspire community had over one million registered members, more than 300,000 of whom are affected by cancer.[5] Inspire had about 80,000 members in 2008. [6]
Partnerships with nonprofit advocacy organizations
Inspire partners with multiple nonprofit patient advocacy organizations, such as National Osteoporosis Foundation, National Psoriasis Foundation, Arthritis Foundation, Cancer Research Institute, American Lung Association, Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance, Genetic Alliance, Kidney Cancer Association, Scleroderma Foundation, Alzheimer's Foundation of America, Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance, Men's Health Network, WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association, Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, American Liver Foundation, Encephalitis Global, Neurofibromatosis Network, American Sexual Health Association, Ehlers-Danlos Society, and the ALS Association to provide online communities for the nonprofit organizations.[7]
Products and services
Inspire generates company revenue from market research and promotional services to pharmaceutical companies. Inspire’s market research services include online surveys, user-generated content analysis, and moderated online private research communities.[8]
Examples of promotional projects that Inspire would provide on behalf of a pharmaceutical client include branded or unbranded banner ads that Inspire serves in its online communities and the delivery of targeted, permission-based emails to community members.[9]
Research projects
Pharmaceutical companies have worked with Inspire on research projects that focus on rare disease populations or populations of patients who have advanced disease, such as metastatic lung cancer.[10] In 2015, members of Inspire's lung cancer group self-organized and submitted a request that helped changed treatment guidelines from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN).[11]
Health technology industry executive John Glaser cited Inspire in an industry magazine column citing the importance of healthcare social networks to clinical research. "In addition to helping patients find and take advantage of clinical trials, health care social networks also provide an opportunity for participant-led research," Glaser wrote, "in which members initiate new fields of study. For instance, Inspire members with spontaneous coronary artery dissection persuaded researchers at the Mayo Clinic to launch new research into the condition, which led to the creation of a SCAD registry, a key step in the further study of this rare disease. Indeed, there is tremendous potential for online patient communities to contribute to the project of a continuously learning health system."[12]
Awards and Recognition
The Washington Post profiled Brian Loew in April 2017 around the time Inspire's membership surpassed one million patients and caregivers. [13] The article states, "Loew and his company are attached to the surge of patient assertiveness, with more people questioning their health care and taking more of the responsibility out of the hands of professionals."
Brian Loew has been named to PharmaVOICE magazine's "PharmaVOICE 100" two times, once in 2014 and again in 2016, for his contributions to the life sciences industry.[14]
The Mayo Clinic named Amir Lewkowicz as a keynote speaker at its Healthcare Social Media Summit 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. [15]
References
- ^ Brian Loew: Inspiring Patient Connections 1 August 2016
- ^ More than a million patients flock to this website. Drug companies are in hot pursuit. 28 April 2017
- ^ Levingston, Suzanne Allard. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/heres-how-patients-can-take-a-larger-part-in-their-own-care/2015/11/30/e4657544-6ad2-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html "Here’s how patients can take a larger part in their own care] 30 November 2015.
- ^ Solberg, Laura. http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2014/04/stas1-1404.html "The Benefits of Online Health Communities] April 2014.
- ^ Brian Loew: Inspiring Patient Connections 1 August 2016
- ^ Roush, Wade. "Online Communities Meet Clinical Trials: Inspire’s Co-Founder on Social Networking, Health 2.0, and Trust 11 December 2008
- ^ Brian Loew: Inspiring Patient Connections 1 August 2016
- ^ Brian Loew: Inspiring Patient Connections 1 August 2016
- ^ More than a million patients flock to this website. Drug companies are in hot pursuit. 28 April 2017
- ^ "Perceptions of stage IV NSCLC patients and caregivers regarding severity of symptoms and willingness to participate in supportive care trials 28 June 2012
- ^ Hobson, Katherine. "How A Group Of Lung Cancer Survivors Got Doctors To Listen 1 March 2015.
- ^ Glaser, John. "Five Reasons to 'Like' Patients’ Use of Social Media 11 April 2016.
- ^ More than a million patients flock to this website. Drug companies are in hot pursuit. 28 April 2017
- ^ Brian Loew: Inspiring Patient Connections 1 August 2016
- ^ "Mayo Clinic Healthcare and Social Media Summit 2016"