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Jun 2018
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540: How WeGo Health Are Uniting Patient...

NEIL C. HUGHES
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WEGO Health is on a mission-driven company connecting healthcare with the experience, skills, and insights of Patient Leaders. They are the world’s largest network of Patient Leaders, working across virtually all health conditions and topics.

The WeGo Health network collaborates with startups, life sciences companies, non-profits, agencies, government and all types of organizations across health care. WEGO Health offers enterprise and on-demand solutions that allow organizations to leverage patient experience and expertise in the design, development and promotion of their products and services.

CEO Jack Barrette is super passionate about the role social media plays in hacking healthcare to create a better future for patient treatment - which is an essential discussion in light of the recent #DeleteFacebook movement. 

People like Sophie Thacher, a software engineer with type 1 diabetes who hacked her continuous glucose monitor to get more actionable health data then the device allows with its standard interface. Or Dakota Rosenthal, Sophie Thachera 22-year-old with a rare form of hemophilia that prevents his blood from clotting properly. Dakota grew so frustrated with the poor usability of mobile apps for his condition he created a free one of his own, which is now used by thousands of fellow hemophiliacs to manage their health better.

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