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Patients Driving Health Innovation - Dr Helena Canhao, Patient Innovation Portugal - October 4th 2016
1. how patients set out solutions for themselves and end up to help many others
Helena Canhão
Dublin, 4 Oct 2016
Patient-led Innovation through
digital platforms
2. Contribution of patients and their
caregivers
Patient-Innovation.com
Patient-centered medicine
Participatory Medicine
3. 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
5. 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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6. Quality of life differences
Scale 1-5
Patients
mean (SD)
Caregivers
mean (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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Personalized External Aortic Root Support
Tal Golesworthy,
a British engineer and
Marfan syndrome
patient, developed an
aortic support and fixed
his own problem (2004)
10. 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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11. 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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12. 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
13. 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
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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
23. Giving a 3D printed hand and arm to a 7-
years old, Nuno
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvrVJs8W59c&index=40&list=PL
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26. 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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31. - 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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I begin by showing some scattered examples of patient innovation, a sample of those present in existent literature on the subject.
Two examples worth highlighting are Dr. Bernsteins’, the first person to read and manage daily his blood sugar levels + Tal Golesworthy, who saved his life by creating a coating device for his aorta with an anheurism, also saving later more than 20 people.
This phenomenon has also already been acknowledged by recognised individuals in the areas of innovation and medicine, such as Prof. Eric von Hippel, father of the user innovation area of knowledge and Sir Richard Roberts, Nobel Laureate
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Patients and caregivers of rare chronic diseases often develop new-to-the-world solutions (8% of sample of 500)
These innovations significantly improve their quality of life
(on a 1-5 scale)
Patients and caregivers of rare chronic diseases often develop new-to-the-world solutions that improve their life quality (8% of sample of 500)
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When confronted with a chronic disease that has a high mortality rate or changes day-to-day habits, a person may simply accept “fate” and give up. That was not a case of Amit Goffer. He was paralyzed in a car crash, but instead of accepting his disability, he used his skills as an engineer to invent a device which could help him get out of his wheelchair. He invented electronic trousers ReWalk (Figure 7) that, with computer and complex construction, help paraplegics to stand and walk. It is now available in rehabilitation hospitals and centers in Europe and in the USA. He is also the founder of a company that produces the device.
Among patient innovations, there are “old” examples of devices we take for granted in our daily life since they have become so common. Bifocals were invented by Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, who started to have trouble seeing both up-close and at a distance as he got older. Being tired of switching between two types of glasses, he thought of a way to have both types of lenses in one frame.
Another interesting example is the band aid. Earle Dickson’s wife often cut herself while doing housework and cooking. Dickson found that the gauze stuck to a wound with tape didn't stay on her active fingers. One day, he took the gauze and placed it in the center of the tape and covered it with crinoline to keep it sterile and safe. This was the invention of the band aid
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