• Welcome to Phoenix Rising!

    Created in 2008, Phoenix Rising is the largest and oldest forum dedicated to furthering the understanding of and finding treatments for complex chronic illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and allied diseases.

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HealClick: Patient Matcher

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$6,178 USD
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This campaign will receive all funds raised even if it does not reach its goal.
Funding duration: January 14, 2014 - February 25, 2014 (11:59pm PT).

Update: We just hit 517 signups since launch!

"'Yelp' for Chronically-Ill Patients. We personalize treatment reviews to each patient's condition, then anonymize online data to fuel new medical research..."
A Story Of Millions

Joey Tuan had just graduated from UC Berkeley's undergraduate business school and was working as a consultant in San Francisco. During a 17-mile hike at Yosemite, he got full-blown flu symptoms, except they didn't go away.

Doctors were baffled, so they first diagnosed him with myalgic encephalomyelitis, then chronic lyme disease, then POTS. He went on a wild goose chase through different disease forums, but 5 years and $200k in treatments produced no answers. It was the sheer luck of talking to another patient like himself that led to a treatment that helped.

He was convinced that patient-sharing could help the millions affected with poorly-understood conditions if patients are not only able to instantly meet others with similar conditions, but also turn everything they share into a database for medical research.

Meet Patients That Match You Best

Joey and cofounders Cari Allshouse and Beth Mazur turned this vision into HealClick.com. We match patients based on everything they have in common: age, diagnoses, symptom severity, and treatment responses. Now, they can instantly see relevant topics and treatment reviews from other patients: no luck or searching needed!

As of today, we have nearly 1000 registered users...

So Why Do We Need Funding?

We've put in $50k of our own money to develop and run our prototype, and now we your help to keep building toward our vision of a patient-centered revolution. If you help us with $50k, we can hit 3 huge milestones in 2014....

You Can Start A Patient Revolution

If we meet our funding goal, HealClick can become the first community to offer chronically-ill patients personalized social support and medical information. With a large enough database, we can create a personal health revolution where patients fuel new research opportunities and help doctors improve early diagnosis and treatment outcomes....
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