Stanford Biodesign Digital Health

Excited to speak at the @dcinetwork.org Conference at @harvard.edu, June 25–27, 2025, to share our AI and digital health work at @stanfordbdhg.bsky.social and leading the development of the @stanfordspezi.bsky.social ecosystem.

Thanks to @yuriquintana.com for bringing this community together!

Join Us at Harvard for the Future of Patient Engagement! Patient-Powered Progress: Revolutionary Digital Strategies for Optimal Patient Engagement and Healthcare Delivery Paul Schmiedmayer, PhD As a researcher at the intersection of Al, medicine, and software engineering, Paul Schmiedmayer's work explores novel approaches to developing scalable, patient-centered platforms that harness Al and connected devices to deliver real-time, personalized health insights.

@pschmiedmayer.bsky.social will speak at the DCI Network Conference at Harvard, June 25–27.

He’ll share insights on scaling access to care with open-source tools, AI, and interoperability, and on using chatbots to connect patients with their records.

Program: www.dcinetwork.org/patients2025

StanfordSpezi 2025 WWDC Meetup A community gathering for developers passionate about building cutting-edge healthcare and research applications. Software engineering is one of the biggest challenges in digital health and Al research. Whether you're a seasoned Swift developer, new to open-source, or simply curious about digital health innovation, come and discover how Spezi is transforming digital health research — and how you can be a part of it! Meet and network with developers, students, researchers, and digital health enthusiasts Learn about the Spezi framework and its growing ecosystem Connect with contributors from the Stanford Biodesign Digital Health team Explore the beautiful Stanford campus Register: bit.ly/SpeziWWDC JUNE 12, 2025 Stanford University

Join us for the in-person Stanford Spezi #WWDC Meetup on June 12, 2025 at 4 PM, on campus!

Open to all—devs, students, researchers & anyone curious about digital health.

Register: bit.ly/SpeziWWDC

Are you interested in @stanfordspezi.bsky.social and in town for Apple’s #WWDC next week? Join us for our Stanford Spezi WWDC Meetup on June 12, 4 PM!

Register: bit.ly/SpeziWWDC
Learn more about Spezi: github.com/StanfordSpezi

Our team is studying how LLMs can explain medical records. Adults or caregivers of children who recently received medical care may be eligible. 30-min session + $50 Amazon gift card. Learn more: forms.gle/Nhc2CisFmo9x... For complaints, concerns, or Participant's rights, contact 1-866-680-2906.

We had a great time at the AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Clincial Informatics Conference!

Exciting to share our efforts within the @stanfordspezi.bsky.social ecosystem and all the research, translation, and teaching we are doing at @stanfordbdhg.bsky.social 🚀

Congrats @vishnuravi.bsky.social, @pschmiedmayer.bsky.social & Aydin Zahedivash on a successful workshop and presentation at @amiainformatics.bsky.social #CIC25 on building patient-centered digital health solutions with Stanford Spezi and promoting digital health innovation in pediatrics!

Our team is at @amiainformatics.bsky.social #CIC25! Join @vishnuravi.bsky.social, @pschmiedmayer.bsky.social, & @AZahedivash tomorrow morning at 10:30am for a hands-on workshop on building your own #FHIR based, AI-enabled digital health app with Stanford Spezi (@stanfordspezi.bsky.social)!

We continue to advance our research on privacy-preserving and scaling AI implementations for on-device reasoning for patient-facing solutions!

I am proud to lead a team of so many talented researchers and students at Stanford Biodesign Digital Health:

Thank you #LlamaCon organizers and everyone who checked out poster!

And of course we had to meet the real llamas 🦙📸

Our team benchmarked the leading on‑device inference models for healthcare, demonstrating that fine‑tuned LLaMa variants deliver state‑of‑the‑art performance directly on mobile and embedded devices - enabling private, offline AI‑driven diagnostics right out of your pocket: arxiv.org/abs/2502.08954

@pschmiedmayer.bsky.social, Patrick Langer, and Thomas Kaar represented our group at #LlamaCon2025 and presented our poster on “Medicine on the Edge: Comparative Performance Analysis of On‑Device LLMs for Clinical Reasoning", work by Leon Nissen, et. al.

Every year, I’m inspired by the aspiring innovators who step into the Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship—and emerge ready to transform healthcare.

Applications are now open for the 2026–27 cohort!
Know someone ready to lead in healthtech innovation? bit.ly/BiodesignFellow

Incorporating clinicians and computer scientists in a multidisciplinary team is the secret of success; congratulations to @draalami.bsky.social, @vishnuravi.bsky.social, Aydin, and everyone in our team who aims to be a medical doctor in the future 🚀

On National Doctor's Day, we proudly honor our team's exceptional physician leaders — Dr. Oliver Aalami (@draalami.bsky.social),
Dr. Vishnu Ravi (@vishnuravi.bsky.social), and Dr. Aydin Zahedivash — who balance their clinical careers with pioneering work in digital health. 🚀

This past week, students in Digital Health Implementation at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden got an in-person crash course in digital health app development from our teaching team @draalami.bsky.social @vishnuravi.bsky.social @pschmiedmayer.bsky.social. Excited to see what they build! 🚀

Checkout SpeziLLM; a great way to integrate LLMs in digital health applications including on-device LLM execution: github.com/StanfordSpez...

Great work by our team; excited about an other great system built using @stanfordspezi.bsky.social!

Our team at Stanford Digital Health, in collaboration with William Bosl, developed the @stanfordspezi.bsky.social i-based NeuroNest system—a scalable, open-source EEG platform for early neurodevelopmental screening. Learn more at arxiv.org/html/2503.13....

Great work by our team and a project that emerged right out of our CS342 class at Stanford 🚀

Excited to see the usage of @stanfordspezi.bsky.social in more and more research apps!

Check out SpeziBluetooth, amazing work by our talented students and team members:

struct BatteryService: BluetoothService { static let id: BTUUID = "180F" @Characteristic(id: "2A19", notify: true) var batteryLevel: UInt8? } class MyDevice: BluetoothDevice { @DeviceState(\.id) var id: UUID @Service var deviceInformation = DeviceInformationService() @Service var battery = BatteryService() required init() {} }

Say goodbye to complex Bluetooth integrations! SpeziBluetooth makes it effortless to retrieve and connect to known devices. Developed by Andreas Bauer, Lukas Kollmer, @pschmiedmayer.bsky.social and our Spezi team:

github.com/StanfordSpezi/SpeziBluetooth

Great job by our teaching team and everyone involved; always such a great time to teach @stanfordspezi.bsky.social and software engineering for digital health applications to Stanford students!

We have wrapped up another incredible quarter of the Building for Digital Health course at Stanford with the amazing help from Oliver Aalami, Adrit Rao, Nick Riedman, Vishnu Ravi, MD, @pschmiedmayer.bsky.social, and Aydin Zahedivash!

We have wrapped up another incredible quarter of the Building for Digital Health course at Stanford with the amazing help from Oliver Aalami, Adrit Rao, Nick Riedman, Vishnu Ravi, MD, @pschmiedmayer.bsky.social, and Aydin Zahedivash!

Enhancing Distress Tolerance Skills in Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa Through the BALANCE Mobile App: Feasibility and Acceptability Study Background: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder with high morbidity and mortality, particularly among adolescents. Family-based treatment (FBT) is the leading evidence-based…

Exciting news! 🚀 Research collaboration from Stanford’s Building for Digital Health course is now published in JMIR Formative Research! 📄

📱 BALANCE App: A study on enhancing distress tolerance in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.

Read more: [🔗 formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e70278/ ]

We are especially grateful for the support of Josh Makower, Gordon Saul, Carolyn Heller, and our wonderful Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign community.

Looking ahead to an amazing 2025! Join us at bdh.stanford.edu 🚀

Nikolai Madlener, Meghana Nerurkar, Leon Nissen, Adrit Rao, Nick Riedman, Shriya Reddy, Kilian Schneider, Felix M. Schlegel, & Philipp Zagar.

And our talented team, including Andreas Bauer, Arkadiusz Bachorski, Vicky Bikia, PhD, Eldi Cano, Paul Heidekrüger, Warren Hiemstra, Sonya Jin, Thomas Kaar, Palle Klewitz, Paul Kraft, Caitlin Kunchur, Audrey Lin, Ricky Mutschlechner...

None of this would have been possible without our exceptional leadership Oliver Aalami, Michelle de Haaff, Vishnu Ravi, MD, Paul Schmiedmayer, Aydin Zahedivash.