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Welcome to Inspire!
What - Inspire is a place where you can connect with people who share your health concerns and find information and advice in groups sponsored by organizations you know and trust.
Why - As a member you can use Inspire to let friends and family know how you're doing, contact others who share your health concerns, receive personalized updates and information about participating in surveys and clinical trials, and more.
How - Joining Inspire is completely free and usually takes less than a minute. Join now!
Journals
Research Opportunity
- By TeamInspire · Posted November 6, 2009
- 0 replies
- All, We have been made aware of a research opportunity that may be of interest to some of our members from FocusSession Research. They specialize in healthcare market research. They have been asked to ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- 29 replies
- Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...
Help others by sharing your experience with cancer
- By TeamInspire · Posted October 12, 2009
- 0 replies
- HealthEd is looking for cancer patients and caregivers to participate in a study about their experiences. The study is for individuals with locally advanced or metastatic head and neck cancer, or metastatic ...
Scheduled maintenance this evening
- By TeamInspire · Posted August 10, 2009
- 13 replies
- All, Inspire will be performing database updates this evening starting at 8:00 Eastern. We expect the updates to take no more than 2 hours and the site will be unavailable at this time. We thank you for ...
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- By Brian · Posted August 5, 2009
- 3 replies
- Inspire recently participated in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (www.ahrq.gov) conference entitled 'Building Bridges: Consumer Needs and the Design of Health Information Technology' in ...
Inspire to Co-Sponsor BIO Healthcare Reform Meeting
- By Brian · Posted June 15, 2009
- 0 replies
- Inspire is proud to join the movement to pass comprehensive healthcare reform legislation. On Wednesday, June 17, we will be co-sponsoring an 'emergency' meeting titled 'The Future of Advocacy and Improved ...
Share your story via video!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
- 28 replies
- Sometimes the most powerful message each of us can share is our personal story -- our own experience. With upcoming healthcare legislation pending, one way we can be advocates is to share these stories ...
Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
- 32 replies
- We're happy to announce that you can now stay in touch with what's happening at Inspire by following us on both Twitter and Facebook. While Inspire communities are still the best places to connect with ...
Guestbooks are now live!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 26, 2009
- 6 replies
- Hello everyone, Last week we mentioned that we'd be adding guestbooks to Inspire in the near future, and they are now live! We're very excited about this feature and hope you enjoy it. To check out your ...
Support and research opportunities for diabetics
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 22, 2009
- 2 replies
- Hello everyone, We'd like to pass along some information which you may find helpful if you or someone you care about is living with diabetes. First off, did you know that we have Inspire groups focused ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- 35 replies
- Hello everyone, We're writing to let you know about a great new feature we'll be adding to Inspire in the very near future: guestbooks. This is a feature that many of you have requested, and we're very ...
Moms, you rock!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
- 0 replies
- Looking for a unique and extraordinary way to say "thank you" to your mom? In honor of Mother's Day, good friend of Inspire Dr. Gwenn (of http://www.PediatricsNow.com and http://www.DrGwennIsIn.com) will ...
New group in Inspire: The National Body Challenge
- By Brian · Posted December 4, 2008
- 25 replies
- I am pleased to announce that today we added a new group to Inspire: The National Body Challenge. nationalbodychallenge We created this group in partnership with Discovery Health. The group focuses on ...
TV coverage of the Advanced Breast Cancer Support Community
- By Brian · Posted October 9, 2008
- 2 replies
- October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and our Advanced Breast Cancer Support Community (www.inspire.com/groups/advanced-breast- cancer) has been covered on live national television! the first clip ...
Privacy and control
- By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
- 48 replies
- At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...
Social Media and Health Symposium
- By Brian · Posted July 3, 2008
- 0 replies
- We recently held an all-day Social Media and Health symposium in collaboration with the Biotechnology Industry Organization (www.bio.org) at BIO's office in Washington, D.C. Huge thanks to Tricia, Julia ...
New feature: video!
- By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
- 24 replies
- I am pleased to announce that we have updated Inspire to support video. You can now share a video of yourself, videos that you find inspirational or informative, and more. I've included one of myself ...
Support your group and raise awareness with badges
- By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
- 39 replies
- Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...
New feature - profile completeness gauge
- By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
- 14 replies
- Greetings from TeamInspire! I'm your friendly neighborhood designer, here to tell you about some new features. You might notice that today we revamped your member homepage - https://www.inspire.com/member-home.pl ...
Sometimes we make mistakes
- By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
- 34 replies
- Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...
