Responsum Health
Empowered patients, better outcomes
Why Responsum Health
Developed from years of research, interviews, and collaboration with patients around the globe, our disease-specific apps are designed to improve patients’ knowledge, grow their self-confidence, support their needs and concerns, and facilitate the organization and coordination of their healthcare information.
We build customized, uniquely individualized knowledge platforms for chronic disease patient communities
Each platform is developed in collaboration with leading medical experts on each disease, in addition to patients and their advocates, caregivers, and healthcare providers.
Our users receive a customized stream of information—hand-selected from across the internet and brought directly to their Newsfeed daily to provide a personalized experience based on their preferences.
By providing an expertly vetted and trustworthy Newsfeed for patients who are in need of easy-to-read, useful information, Responsum Health is building strong knowledge communities.
Our health communities
Building trusted health communities for patients with chronic conditions
Responsum for Long COVID is a supportive online community for these people experiencing long-term symptoms or complications. This innovative platform provides
Thoughtfully designed to best serve individuals with glaucoma, The Glaucoma Community provides users with a toolkit of useful, community-oriented features.
Responsum for PF, a personalized newsfeed, support resource, and data organizing tool for individuals living with pulmonary fibrosis (PF), is
Provided in partnership with The White Dress Project and CARE About Fibroids—two of the nation’s leading fibroids support organizations—and with support and
Designed to meet the needs of patients, families, caregivers, and healthcare professionals, Responsum for CKD offers a number of informational
We're on a mission!
At Responsum Health, we believe there is a better way to help patients with chronic diseases—a more valuable, less invasive way, where patients and caregivers can find meaningful support and reliable information about their journeys and share their stories.
What our clients and partners are saying:
Katie Donnini
Director of Patient Advocacy & Stakeholder Management—Otsuka Pharmaceuticals
We went to the kidney community and what we heard loud and clear was patients wanted to hear from other patients, and they wanted trusted information they could easily locate. Once connecting with the team from Responsum- we built the vision together, Responsum for CKD was created. In the highly regulated pharmaceutical space, the team at Responsum has been incredible to work with. They’re knowledgeable on the compliance aspects of building a patient community. More than anything, we wanted this community to be owned by its own stakeholders. We’ve been overwhelmed by the positive response of the CKD community and the growth in use, in such a short amount of time. Even some of our closest collaborators were excited to find out Otsuka was a supporter of the community. Our team is proud to support such an important space for patients to connect.
Adrienne Gaggi
Clinical Researcher Professional
I had the pleasure to collaborate with the Responsum team and saw first-hand their commitment to the patient communities they serve. They quickly took on a new initiative and navigated the strict regulations of clinical trials in order to offer their patient community clinical trial information and assistance with locating research sites for a specific study. Responsum was able to successfully pre-screen and refer dozens of patients to nearby research sites. The team was very flexible and provided a tailored approach when it came to educating and referring patients. The assistance they provided with patient recruitment contributed valuable data to help discover new therapies. Responsum demonstrated a true dedication towards empowering and educating patients that I really admired. I look forward to working with them again.
Tanika Gray Valbrun
Founder of The White Dress Project
Our partnership with Responsum Health has allowed the White Dress Project to engage with women with uterine fibroids through a dynamic app that has truly changed the game. This partnership has enabled our organization to amplify the reach of our content and generate meaningful insights from the women we serve. The team at Responsum Health is professional, attentive, and creative and I would recommend working with them to any advocacy group that wants to provide meaningful support to their patient community.
Jeff Todd
President and CEO — Prevent Blindness
Responsum Health has been a great partner in developing and supporting a one-of-a-kind knowledge app for our community of people living with glaucoma. The Responsum Health team is creative, responsive, and accountable and I would highly recommend working with them to anyone.
Bill Schmidt
President and CEO—Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation
Partnering with Responsum Health has allowed us to expand our community's knowledge and provide meaningful support to thousands of people with pulmonary fibrosis. The folks at Responsum Health are highly professional and super responsible and I would recommend working with them to any advocacy group seeking innovative ways to provide value to the people they serve.
Industry partners
By partnering with Responsum Health to underwrite a disease-specific knowledge platform, our commercial supporters simultaneously demonstrate their commitment to serving their patients while gleaning valuable insights into the way they experience and value healthcare.
If you’re looking to support patients with a particular diagnosis, Responsum offers a proven recipe for building and maintaining a vibrant online community comprised of patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals. Our active collaboration with other patient advocates, in conjunction with accessible, free platforms with shareable content, ensures that we are able to measurably increase disease awareness on a broad scale.
Responsum patients demonstrate a high level of growth in their knowledge base, self-confidence, and mental health. Over time, our patients demonstrate a greater willingness and capacity to ask the right questions and engage in meaningful decision-making with their care team.
We are able to provide our commercial supporters with valuable care-related insights from patients through customized surveys, deep-diving focus groups, and detailed analyses of our platform’s utilization metrics. Our quick turn-around time enables partners to get quick, useful answers from a meaningful patient data set.
Roughly 60% of our patients tell us they would consider participating in a clinical trial. Responsum Health works efficiently with our commercial partners to identify and recruit trial candidates, as well as facilitate their participation.
Our team
Andy Rosenberg
Founder and CEO
Yury Salazar Smith
Vice President of Operations
Dominic Nicosia
Chief Content Editor
Sharinda Williams-Simmons
Social Media Manager
Bridget Greinke
Community Relations Director
Zachary Kay
Digital Marketing Director
Dominic Nicosia
Chief Content Editor
Robert Saint Laurent
Senior Editor
Margalo Eden
Senior Writer
Samantha Carter
Senior Writer
Amanda Donohue
Senior Writer
Jenny Rosenberg
Public Relations Director
Bridget Greinke
Community Relations Director
Zachary Kay
Digital Marketing Director
Sharinda Williams-Simmons
Social Media Manager
Hung Luu
Chief Technology Officer
Dat Giang
Lead Developer Engineer
Yury Salazar Smith
Vice President of Operations
Anthony Howell
Senior Advisor
Vanessa Rangel Miller
Senior Advisor
Thayer Surette
Senior Advisor
Our clients and partners include:
Help us revolutionize online patient care
The need to safely harness the power of the internet for patients is universal. At some point, virtually every newly diagnosed person goes online to research their condition, investigate treatment options, and find support resources.
In order to help as many patients as possible, Responsum Health is actively looking for new partners—both commercial and patient groups—to develop and maintain knowledge communities in therapeutic areas of unmet need.
Let’s explore your ideas about where we should go next!