2018
Personal Connected Health Alliance and WEGO Health Announce Winner of “Flip the Patient” Challenge
Get Real Health helps engage and empower patients and providers, combining personal health and clinical data to achieve a complete view of an individual’s health Las Vegas, March 8, 2018 – Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHAlliance), a HIMSS organization, and WEGO Health, the world’s largest network of patient leaders, today announced Get Real Health as the winner of its first “Flip the Patient” Challenge. The [...]
Why Facebook’s algorithm change may benefit patient influencers
With Facebook’s latest algorithm change prioritizing content from friends over brands, the best avenue for many healthcare marketers to break through to Facebook users may be patient influencers.A WEGO Health white paper examined how the change could affect patient influencers, finding that personal posts from an influencer would be more likely to organically land on a user’s News Feed… read full article ### [...]
2017
HealthXL and WEGO Health Announce Partnership to Improve Patient-Driven Digital Health Innovation
BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 12, 2017 – Today, HealthXL and WEGO Health announced a new partnership to integrate patient insights and expertise into healthcare innovation. HealthXL connects early stage digital health companies with health systems, device and drug manufacturers and venture capital funds to foster innovation. WEGO Health connects innovators to patient experts who work as independent consultants and who can be hired through the company’s [...]
WEGO Health Announces Collaboration with StartUp Health to Accelerate Digital Health Innovation
BOSTON, Mass. Oct 30, 2017 – WEGO Health announced a new partnership with StartUp Health to strengthen their mission-driven transformation of healthcare. The collaboration is designed to accelerate innovation by matching up digital health companies in the StartUp Health Moonshot Academy with a network of patient experts who can provide valuable insight and feedback during the product development process. ### [...]
WEGO Health Announces 16 Winners of the 2017 WEGO Health Awards
BOSTON, Mass., Oct 23, 2017 – WEGO Health held its 6th annual WEGO Health Awards, in a virtual ceremony on Facebook Live, October 11-13. The three-day event honored 16 distinct Patient Leaders, who were nominated by peers around the world for various categories of patient advocacy work. ### [...]