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Podcast: WCG Talks Trials
Episode: Brian Loew, The INSPIRE social network platform provides a safe place for patients to meet, learn, and influence research
Description: In this episode, Brian Loew, founder and CEO of online patient portal Inspire, talks about the value to patients and caregivers of providing a safe and trustworthy online social network: a “peaceable kingdom,” as he calls it.Millions of patients representing 3,500 diseases—including many rare ones—come to Inspire.com for online community discussions focused on their own particular disease. The platform provides a place for meaningful conversations among patients and caregivers. It also allows them to share their insights in ways that advance clinical research. Patients want to support research, sometimes even initiating it themselves. And, more tha...