ultimately of other patients' therapy. We analyze innovations of producers, healthcare professionals, patients, and relatives in … ratings and found that apps designed by patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals are rated significantly better by … innovative contributions of intermediate and end users that have been sold and evaluated within the healthcare sector. Several …

This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her … practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical … expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who …

. Healthcare companies should establish measures to support innovative patients and to systematically integrate them into their …Prior research has shown that some patients and caregivers such as relatives are innovating in relation to their unmet … and subsequently commercialized. We analyze cases of patients and their caregivers becoming user entrepreneurs - persons …