Stanford’s new Center for Digital Health will promot research & industry collaboration, including seed grant program to test Apple Watch in medicine.
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Stanford shows new surgery technique with Hydrocephalus App
The Hydrocephalous Procedure app teaches a new surgery technique from Stanford using 3D simulation.
How Stanford & GE startup Evidation Health plans to fill the need for evidence-based digital medicine
Evidation Health to partner with digital health companies & perform clinical validation studies
Stanford to offer online training in international mobile health tech, free
Physicians from Stanford University are offering a free online course on mobile health.
An App to Improve Medical Student Critical Thinking and Social Skills
Our study tested a mobile-based multiple choice question generator application to engage medical students in self-assessment and peer assessment through question solutions and peer ratings.
Doximity raises $17 million series B led by Morgenthaler Ventures
Physician social network Doximity raises $17 million Series B round from Morgenthaler Ventures.
LUMOback shows the potential of crowdfunding for health tech startups
LUMOback won the Body Slam competition hosted by the USC Body Computing Lab last year and has spent the last eighteen months designing and developing a very cool product with major potential due to the prevalence of back problems, which will effect as much as 80% of the population at some point in their lives.
Dermatology may be best positioned to be disrupted by telemedicine, interview DermLink CEO
DermLink impresses with a framework for delivering mobile telemedicine without neglecting patients, general practitioners and clinical specialists.
April’s first installment of the “Best of iMedicalApps”
In this installment, we look at whether smartphones are distracting for clinicians, discuss the Lancet iPad journal app, and look at a cool new device that helps you track your fitness called the Nike Fuelband. Additionally, we demonstrate how easy it is to check out an iPad from a medical library, review an app that contains health advice for patients, and lastly, we show you the future of TEDMED.
The future of medicine is … here: TEDMED 2012
In just a few short years, the TEDMED conference has grown in size and prominence to become an annual highlight for healthcare visioneers and digerati. The list of speakers shows it to include some of the best and brightest in the nation, and spans disciplines from engineering to medicine to informatics to chemistry. As many […]
Stanford University’s Septris app combines gamification of healthcare with CME
Sepsis strikes approximately 750,000 people in the US and is responsible for more than 215,000 deaths. Mortality remains high at 25-50% at a cost of $17 billion each year. These figures suggest that control and recognition of sepsis is relatively poor and there are a number of initiatives in place to try and rectify this. One […]
Demo day at Stanford’s start up accelerator features 4 new health tech companies
By Tim Bredrup Four new health technology companies covering areas from Big Data to telemedicine to therapeutics recently made their pitches to investors and media at the StartX demo day. StartX is Stanford University’s nonprofit student startup accelerator, operated independently from the university. Its fifth class of startups from the fall of 2011 includes four […]