CureTogether -- crowdsourced health management
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CureTogether—crowdsourced health management
A very frustrating and often medically unrecognized result of living
with chronic illness is the awful feeling that you’re alone in your
struggle. Years of expensive yet unsuccessful treatment by physicians
can make many patients lose hope. But for Alexandra Carmichael, out of
such frustration was built a platform for people to share and track
their health data, resulting in significant improvement in thousands
of lives.
Alex was uniquely qualified to pull this off. She has a degree in
molecular genetics and molecular biology, spent seven years as co-
founder of life sciences software company Redasoft, and has lived with
chronic pain for a decade. Her journey helped make it clear how
essential good health is, and how elusive it can be for millions. When
doctors cannot be of help, the only way to find a cure is… together.
Alex launched CureTogether almost three years ago. It now has more
than 12,000 users in 112 countries. Alex also helps others share their
findings in person, as a director of the wildly-popular Quantified
Self movement. As a user of CureTogether, and an attendee of
Quantified Self meetups long before I met Alex, it was a privilege to
interview such a role model who’s making great strides in citizen
science. Here is our conversation.
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