SMART Work Design: Accelerating the Diagnosis of Rare Diseases in the Western Australian Undiagnosed Diseases Program.

The accurate and efficient diagnosis of rare diseases, many of which include congenital anomalies, depends largely on the specialists who diagnose them - including their ability to work alongside specialists from other fields and to take full advantage of cutting-edge precision medicine technologies and precision public health approaches. However, highly specialized clinicians operating within a historically-siloed healthcare system is antithetical to the multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and creative approach that facilitates the diagnosis of rare diseases. The Western Australian Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP-WA) successfully re-designed the work of the involved clinicians to facilitate teamworking across silos.