PatientPowered.us is the award-winning app for patients and researchers to collaboratively design research studies that answer the top questions patients want answered. If you are a patient with any condition, find popular questions other patients are asking for researchers to study. Propose questions of your own that you want answered. Help researchers craft the studies that will answer these questions. If you are a researcher, find the top patient questions and co-design studies with them. Patients who are ready and willing to help answer the question are right before you. Apply for research funding to study the questions here using this collaboration as the starting point. Other healthcare stakeholders can chime in with resources-- like funding, outreach, laboratories, or talent to help bring the study to light. ----- PatientPowered.us is an award-winning app that received *PCORI's 1st place in the 2014 Matchmaking App Challenge. PatientPowered.us is designed and developed by Sean Ahrens (seanahrens.org), the founder and developer of Crohnology.com, a network of people with Crohn's and Colitis who track and contribute their health data for research. *PCORI = Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a United States NIH-funded non-profit. less
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