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Revolutionising Healthcare by Empowering Patients to Innovate

Many patients with chronic diseases and non-professional caregivers develop useful and innovative solutions to help them cope with their health disorders.8-11 When we began studying this phenomenon, we first focussed on a set of rare and chronic diseases and looked at the solutions patients use to help them cope with their disease or health condition. We found that patients and caregivers have significant innovative capabilities and have developed various solutions, treatments, and medical aid devices for themselves (e.g. about 50% of the solutions for cystic fibrosis were developed by the patients). These solutions span from simple tools for everyday use, through to the discovery of previously unknown therapies and highly sophisticated solutions.11