Stanford Report, 01/27/2025Paul Yock receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation
On January 3, 2025, Stanford Biodesign's founder and director emeritus, Paul Yock, MD, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement, bestowed by the president of the United States.
Stanford Medicine News, 11/05/2024Biodesign Cultivates Community Partnerships to Broaden Understanding of Health Equity
In line with our objective of strengthening health equity considerations throughout the innovation process, the 2024-25 Innovation and Policy Fellows spent time learning from multiple organizations in the Bay Area with long histories of providing care to underserved communities.
Inside Medtech Innovation Podcast, 10/17/2024The Creative Forces Driving MedTech w. Sandy Ruggles
Listen as Sandra Waugh Ruggles, Stanford Biodesign’s director of policy research, discusses how long it takes to get from FDA clearance to Medicare coverage, how regulatory innovation can fast-track disruptive technologies, and her journey from biotech to medtech.
Fast Company, Inc. Stanford Report, 09/24/2024Stanford Carnegie Mellon Take Different Interdisciplinary Approaches to Innovation - With the Same Great Results
Stanford Biodesign is showcased as an example of how Stanford University nurtures leaders in entrepreneurship and innovation. In this first edition of Fast Company and Inc.’s “Ignition Schools 2024”, a ranking of the top 50 colleges and universities around the world with the biggest impact on innovation, business and society, Stanford is #1.
Stanford Medicine, 02/28/2024Gift Propels a New Stanford Program Designed to Help Entrepreneurs Make an Impact
With the support of the Li Ka Shing Foundation, Stanford Biodesign and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program have launched a new program, the Stanford Initiative for Entrepreneurs’ Resilience and Well-Being (SIER), aimed at understanding and promoting the traits that define successful health and technology entrepreneurs.
The Digital Health Roundtable, 02/02/2024Delivering More Tomorrow: All Saves With Uday Kumar, MD AND Element Science
In alignment with Stanford Biodesign's focus on improving health equity through innovation, senior advisor Uday Kumar shares an example in this podcast (based on his latest company Element Science) of how more intentional decision making around clinical trials and other steps in the biodesign innovation process can lead to increased diversity and more representative outcomes.
US News and World Report, 12/13/2023Smartwatches Are Spotting Hidden Heart Trouble in Kids
Stanford Biodesign’s digital health team, led by director Oliver Aalami, has played a central role in this new study, which explore the use of smartwatches in helping detect and diagnose irregular heart rhythms in pediatric patients.
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STANFORD MEDICINE, 12/13/2023Smartwatches Can Pick Up Abnormal Heart Rhythms in Kids, Stanford Medicine Study Finds
New research from Stanford Medicine has been supported by Stanford Biodesign’s digital health team, including leaders Oliver Aalami, Vishnu Ravi, and Paul Schmiedmayer. Their research application shows promise in enabling new capabilities in detecting and diagnosing irregular heart rhythms in children.
Stanford Social Innovation Review, 11/08/2023Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health
In this article, the insturctors of the Biodesign and Entrepreneurship for Societal Health course share a framework for understanding "systemic drivers of health," which are a complex set of interconnected factors and global systems that impact health outcomes yet are well beyond an individual's control and influence, and how healthcare innovators must understand and take these factors into account.
Market Pathways Podcast, 09/18/2023Reimbursement for Breakthrough Devices Still Lags—Need for TCET: An Interview With Josh Makower
Stanford Biodesign's director Josh Makower and Market Pathways editor-in-chief Stephen Levin discuss a recent Stanford report that found the median time for initial coverage of breakthrough devices was nearly six years, and how this data can help drive change in the current debate over TCET (transitional coverage for emerging technologies) to help speed this process.
Maml Podcast, 08/13/2023Spezi (Stanford CardinalKit) - An Open Source Framework for Digital Health
CardinalKit (now Spezi), an open-source framework for digital health application development and research, was recently featured in the news for releasing HealthGPT, an experimental iOS app allows patients to readily query and understand their health data.
Etoday Health, 7/29/2023The 2023 Asia-Pacific Biomedical Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference Will Be Held at Taipei Medical University
Activities related to the 2023 BME-IDEA APAC conference spanned three days and included large and small-group meetings with health technology innovation educators and industry leaders from Stanford Biodesign and many program launched in the region by our global faculty trainees.
China Times, 07/29/2023The Asia-Pacific Biomedical Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference Debuts, Taiwan's New Innovation Capabilities Attract Attention
Stanford Biodesign was delighted to participate in the 2023 annual meeting of BME-IDEA APAC, a consortium of health technology innovation education programs across the Asia Pacific region. This year's conveniening includes nearly 35 leaders representing 10 different countries.
