Biodesign Digital Health
We empower the digital health community to rapidly prototype and build modern, interoperable, scalable digital health solutions on a variety of platforms.
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Unlocking the Potential of Digital Health
Our mission is to advance digital health research and applications by fostering an accessible health ecosystem at the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign.
We develop, implement, and investigate digital health solutions that improve health journeys.
Our flagship project, Stanford Spezi, is an open-source framework for building modular, interoperable, and scalable digital health applications.
News & Updates From Biodesign Digital Health
QDG Published in npj Parkinson's Disease
Quantitative DigitoGraphy (QDG) is a comprehensive, real-time monitoring system for Parkinson's disease with software built upon our Stanford Spezi framework and integrated into the Epic electronic health record system.
Students develop six Spezi-based real-world digital health applications
Students in our CS342 Building for Digital Health Course developed six real-world digital health projects using the Stanford Spezi framework in collaboration with faculty and clinicians at Stanford Health Care, Stanford Children's, and Charite Berlin.
Supporting Physical Activity Behavior Change with LLM-Based Conversational Agents
GPTCoach is a GPT4-based chatbot that implements an evidence-based health coaching program, uses counseling strategies from motivational interviewing, and can query and visualize a user’s health data from a wearable through tool use, built upon the Stanford Spezi framework.
CardinalKit published in JAMIA Open
In our newest publication in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, we discuss the origins of the CardinalKit framework, the predecessor to Spezi, and how it facilitated the development of over a dozen applications for digital health research and clinical care across Stanford and beyond.
Increasing diversity in clinical trials
The OwnYourData team at Columbia University recently won a grant to increase diversity in clinical trials by enabling patients to aggregate and share their health information as well as access trials relevant to their condition, leveraging our Stanford Spezi framework and patient data access FHIR APIs.
Stanford students and faculty create a mobile app to help understand and treat pain
CHOIRMobile is a CardinalKit-based application that takes a novel approach to tracking chronic pain, by combining passively collected biometric data from wearable devices with validated pain assessments delivered periodically via a mobile app.
Digital solution for patients with cerebral palsy
Our BUDI team used CardinalKit to create an Apple Watch sensor-based interactive mobility program that helps patients with cerebral palsy perform therapy exercises anywhere while obtaining live biofeedback.
Making Digital Health Development More Accessible Through an Unlikely Collaboration
How a high school in New York uses our CardinalKit framework to teach digital health.
Contact Us
Stanford Biodesign Digital Health
Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign
318 Campus Drive, Room E100
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5428
Email: speziteam@stanford.edu
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