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how patients set out solutions for themselves and end up to help many others
Helena CanhãoDublin, 4 Oct 2016
Patient-led Innovation through digital platforms
Contribution of patients and their caregivers
Patient-Innovation.com
Patient-centered medicineParticipatory Medicine
Research documents that patients often innovate by developing new solutions, sometime all by themselves, to help them manage the diseases that afflict them.
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Patients of chronic diseases often innovate
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Often patients set out to help themselves and end up helping many
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Patients of chronic diseases often innovate
the PATIENT INNOVATION potential
Oliveira, Zejnilovic, Canhão and von Hippel (2015)
28%
8%64%
new to the patient new to the world did not innovate
n = 500
Patients and caregivers often develop innovative solutions to help them cope with their disease
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Quality of life differences Scale 1-5
Patientsmean (SD)
Caregiversmean (SD)
Products 2.2 (1.5) 1.7 (1.4)
Services 1.8 (1.4) 2 (1.7)
Total 2 (1.4) 1.9 (1.6)
The solutions significantly improve their quality of life...
New to the world
New to the patient
Shown it locally to other patients 89% 92%Shown it to medical professionals 5% 2%Shared the info on a website/blog/social network 37% 28%Shared it through media 16% 8%other 25% 13%
Quality of life of both patients and caregivers improves 2 points (out of a 5 points scale)
But they rarely diffuse (e.g. only 5% are show to medical professionals)
Oliveira, Zejnilovic, Canhão and von Hippel (2015)
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Patients
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Personalized External Aortic Root Support
Tal Golesworthy, a British engineer and Marfan syndrome patient, developed an aortic support and fixed his own problem (2004)
implemented in more than 70 patients
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Amit Goffer (Israel), founder of Argo Medical Technologies, was paralyzed in a car crash and used his skills as an engineer to develop the electronic trousers.
Approved by FDA
ReWalk
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Electronic trousers
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Low frequency generator for bronchial drainage
‣ Louis Plante (cystic fibrosis patient) had to leave a concert due to excessive coughing (seating in front of speakers)
Being a skilled electronics technician, he developed a device that generates low frequency vibration He founded DYMEDSO
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Lisa was diagnosed with breast cancer. Following a mastectomy, she was advised to avoid showering in order to prevent infection through the drain sites. She created a water-resistant garment, the Shower Shirt, to enable patients in a similar situation to shower normally.
Shower shirt
The Shower Shirt has obtained FDA approval and already crossed geographic borders to reach 36 countries.
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Lisa Crites and the Shower Shirt
Michael Seres, UK
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Michael suffers from Crohn’s disease and did a ileostomy after a bowel transplant.He struggles for never knowing whether the bag’s stool is full.He developed the osteom-i alert, a sensor associated to an app that monitors bag’s volume and sends information to his mobile phone.
Osteom-i alert
Caregivers
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A mobility device for children with motor impairment to stand and walk
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Debby Elnatan’s youngest son was born with cerebral palsy. She developed the Upsee
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Kylie’s fatherthe intravenous backpack
Collaborations
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A way to foster collaboration: the case of Ivan Owen
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Ivan Owen
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Nuno
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Giving a 3D printed hand and arm to a 7-years old, Nuno • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvrVJs8W59c&index=40&list=PL
4LkFyzWy7hPXPywkcBOoWTFhJNu1IWYy
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The Patient Innovation Platform:
An international, multilingual, open, free and non-profit platform and social network to facilitate the sharing of
innovative solutions developed by patients or caregivers of any disease
https://patient-innovation.com
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“We are very excited about this project”
Semifinalist only non-US among 475 candidates
A start-up to follow…
"Patient Innovation is an impressive platform"
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+6001,5 innovations/day
- Out of 1200 submissions; about half are rejected at “screening”- From over 41 countries from US to South Korea
+600 patient innovations were collected and curated
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Science GalleryDublin, Jan-Fev 2018
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Team & Advisory Board
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Patient Associations
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WEBSUMMIT @LISBON, PORTUGALNOVEMBER 10TH
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