, companies and scholars have paid little attention to the end users of medical devices: patients. We focus on the innovative … behavior of patients and their relatives, their motivations, and their contributions to improving the quality of their own and … ultimately of other patients' therapy. We analyze innovations of producers, healthcare professionals, patients, and relatives in …

Focus and Scope of this Thesis -- Introduction -- Conceptual Foundations: The Phenomenon of Patients and Caregivers as … User Innovators -- Are Patients and Caregivers the Better Innovators? The Case of Medical Smartphone Applications …Moritz Göldner analyzes the unexplored phenomenon of patients and caregivers as innovators with respect to their own …

online health platforms create value for patients and doctors and explore how market designs influence value creation. We … develop a structural demand and supply model for an online health market that is characterized by patients' trade-offs between … platform, we recover patients' preference for the service quality and price sensitivity as well as doctors' heterogeneous pro …

Many patients have a choice of a provider for acute care, typically choosing between an Urgent Care facility (UC) or an … Emergency Department of a hospital (ED). This choice is made by a patient who is generally not herself a trained medical … patients, and takes into account the factors that affect the patient. We show that a separating equilibrium, in which all …