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Patrick Dempsey partners with CrowdMed

May 21, 2014

Patrick Dempsey SAN FRANCISCO – CrowdMed, an online crowd-sourced medical diagnosis platform that helps solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases, announced that Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey (pictured) has made an investment in the company. Almost one in 10 Americans – and 350 million people globally – are affected by the approximately 7,000 different types of rare or difficult-to-diagnose medical conditions. With this investment, Dempsey is working with CrowdMed to help expand the platform and give an additional resource to those facing undiagnosed illnesses. Read More

Forum on social media in health explodes on Twitter

March 5, 2014

VANCOUVER – A public forum on how social media could be used to connect the general public with health professionals and health policy makers, held in Vancouver in February, generated more than 1.5 million impressions on Twitter and trended strongly in Canada that night. Read More