Crowd-sourced collaborative innovation is changing the face of modern medicine. e-NABLE, an online volunteer community of humanitarian technologists is leading the way by designing, building, and disseminating inexpensive 3D-printed prosthetics.
Come join the e-NABLE organization and thought leaders in medicine, industry and public policy for a ground-breaking, industry-defining event at at Johns Hopkins Hospital that will include the delivery of donated prosthetics to children with upper limb disabilities.
Help us bring 21st-century technologies, practices, and philosophies to prosthetists, parents, and patients. Help us develop enlightened policy recommendations and strategies in advance of FDA regulatory workshops in October.
Please visit enablingthefuture.org to read about the work we are doing, find open source hand design files to print and peruse the heart warming stories of the children, adults and Veterans who have been gifted these 3D printed hands from a global network of e-NABLE volunteers.
Open-source 3D-printed prosthetics seem to be creating a textbook case of disruptive innovation.
This workshop will provide an early look at implications for public policy, for regulation, and for healthcare. It aims to help shape a conversation that can hopefully bring less-expensive prosthetics and vastly-expanded coverage to underserved populations in the United States and worldwide.
Participants in the poicy workshop will have time to to visit the hands-on worksopps to witness the practice of hand-making first hand.