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Scaling Access to Care Workshop
Dr. Paul Schmiedmayer and Dr. Oliver Aalami hosted a keynote on increasing healthcare accessibility with digital health.
December 09, 2024
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Winter 2025 CS 342 applications are now open!
If you are a current student, consider applying to CS 342/MED 253 by November 30th if you are interested in building digital health solutions for research or clinical care.
November 27, 2024
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Quantitative DigitoGraphy (QDG) Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation
Helen Bronte-Stewart and her team pass a significant milestone for QDG, a monitoring system for Parkinson's disease, to bring this tool to patients and their families.
November 23, 2024
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Stanford Biodesign Digital Health Team awarded 2024 Stanford Center for Digital Health (CDH) Pilot Grant
The Stanford Biodesign Digital Health Team will use the grant to design digital health solutions to foster healthier relationships between adolescents and technology.
November 22, 2024
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Stanford Spezi at the Apple Health Conference
Several key Biodesign Digital Health Team members presented on Stanford Spezi, our open source framework, and shared insights on optimizing health data.
October 23, 2024
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Digital Health Innovation and Biodesign Workshop
Stanford University, Hasso Plattner Institute, and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin developed new pathways to solve pressing health challenges.
October 17, 2024
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Pediatric Apple Watch Study (PAWS) has officially launched!
PAWS is a study investigating how the Apple Watch can detect arrythmias. Earlier iterations of the app were prototyped by Stanford students in our CS 342 course.
September 10, 2024
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Cardinal LifeSpace 2.0 is published on the App Store!
Cardinal LifeSpace 2.0, an app studying how people move to investigate how the built environment influences health.
August 19, 2024
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QDG Published in npj | Parkinson's Disease
Quantitative DigitoGraphy (QDG) is a comprehensive, real-time monitoring system for Parkinson's disease with software built on Stanford Spezi and integrated into Epic.
July 27, 2024
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Partner Project: 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 motivational interviewing, and can query and visualize health data from a wearable.
May 09, 2024
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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.
March 14, 2024
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CS342 Building For Digital Health Application
Join CS342, Biodesign Building for Digital Health, this Winter Quarter! We are admitting students on a rolling basis, and there are only a few spots left!
December 11, 2023
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CardinalKit published in JAMIA Open
On the origins of the CardinalKit framework, the predecessor to Spezi, and its role in the development of over a dozen applications for digital health research and clinical care.
July 19, 2023
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Increasing diversity in clinical trials with Stanford Spezi framework and patient data access FHIR APIs
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.
April 30, 2023
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HealthGPT hints at a future of fitness apps with personalized assistants (TechRadar)
HealthGPT is an LLM that will answer questions about the user's well-being based on Apple's health data and provide suggestions to improve their health with internet information.
April 21, 2023
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Making Digital Health Development More Accessible Through an Unlikely Collaboration
Paul Chinsky and Jacob Albert used CardinalKit to build an app to test whether binaural beats would help decrease stress and anxiety in high school students.
February 20, 2023
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Stanford students and faculty create a mobile app to help understand and treat pain
CHOIRMobile is a CardinalKit-based application that tracks chronic pain, by combining biometric data from wearable devices with validated pain assessments through a mobile app.
November 12, 2022
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Celebrating Health Data Access
A new phase of health data liberation will help patients be more informed about their care and offer opportunities for more longitudinal and continuous tracking of patient health.
October 26, 2022
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CardinalKit-based LifeSpace research app published on the Apple App Store
Lifespace uses GPS info to study features of the social and built environment that support health and identify opportunities for intervention to protect disadvantaged communities.
August 18, 2022
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The BUDI system: A digital solution for kids with cerebral palsy
This CardinalKit program is an Apple Watch sensor-based interactive mobility program to help patients with cerebral palsy perform therapy exercises while getting live biofeedback.
July 22, 2022