PatientsLikeMe, the US-based online platform for the exchange of health data, has gone global with the clinical-trial matching tool it launched in the network’s home market last year.

The free tool, unveiled by PatientsLikeMe research director Paul Wicks at the UK National Health Service’s Healthcare Innovation Expo 2013 in London, draws on open data to match patients from around the globe with clinical trials based on their condition and location.

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