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'Patient Innovation'

Patient Innovation (http://www.patient-innovation.com ) is an international multi-lingual online platform to facilitate sharing of solutions developed by patients or caregivers.

Patient Innovation was developed by a team of researchers who found that patients of chronic diseases and their non-professional caregivers have developed a significant number of non-drug medical innovations that have proven valuable in dealing with their diseases. In some cases, patients even saved their own lives. These innovations usually occur behind closed doors and might never be knowledge or used by anyone else. However, if successful solutions and knowledge were shared with other patients with similar need, it could improve the lives of many others. To promote collaboration and foster the diffusion and use of those innovations, Patient Innovation was launched in 2014.

Patient Innovation is headquartered at the Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal

The Advisory Board of Patient Innovation includes:

Prof. Aaron Ciechanover, Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2004);

Prof. Eric von Hippel, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management ;

Prof. Katherine Strandburg, Professor, New York University School of Law;

Prof. Lee Fleming, University of California, Berkeley;

Sir Richard Roberts, Chief Scientist, New England Biolabs (Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1993)

Prof. Robert Langer, Professor, MIT (“most cited engineer in history”).

The potential of this project can be seen through the endorsement statements of its supporters

“This is an outstanding use of social medical that should help many disadvantaged people who desperately seek ways to improve their quality of life” Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology and member of the Advisory Board Sir Richard Roberts

“a project with potentially very great social value”. Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and member of the Advisory Board Eric von Hippel

The platform has been endorsed by prestigious institutions and reputable individuals, including several Nobel Laureates, distinguished scholars and patients’ representatives. Patient Innovation already signed collaborations protocols with more than 20 patient associations in the USA, UK, Australia, France, Malasya, Portugal, Serbia, Croatia, Brazil, Bosnia, among other, who will helps us to reach out to their members (patients and caregivers).

Patient Innovation is currently participating in the prestigious Health Acceleration Challenge at Harvard University, where out of about 240 competing projects, Patient Innovation is currently the most applauded, most viewed and commented project in the competition. The number of applauses is one of the criteria to find the winner.

More info: Video 1: https://vimeo.com/71650884 Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGIfNAw6Kns&feature=em-upload_owner Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PatientInnov Twitter: https://twitter.com/PatientInnov