Stanford Center for Digital Health

Ambient AI scribes are already easing clinician burden & burnout, but still remain expensive for healthcare systems. How we define & measure ROI will shape not only adoption today, but also how health systems adapt to the broader AI transformation in care. Learn more: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

(2/2) Stanford CDH Director, Eleni Linos, spoke on a panel at the World Governments Summit alongside Daniel Getts of CREATE Medicines about how AI is helping improve access to healthcare for everyone regardless of where they live, and shift the focus of medicine from treatment to prevention.

(1/2) Wellbeing has traditionally been designed to treat illness after it appears. Today however, technology is shifting the focus toward prevention, optimization, and continuous improvement of human performance.

Holistic evaluation of large language models for medical tasks with MedHELM - Nature Medicine MedHELM, an extensible evaluation framework including a new taxonomy for classifying medical tasks and a benchmark of many datasets across these categories, enables the evaluation of large language mo...

MedHELM, developed by Stanford CDH-funded and affiliated researchers in partnership with Microsoft, evaluates LLMs on their ability to handle real clinical tasks. Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (2/2)

While large language models (LLMs) can achieve near-perfect scores on medical licensing exams, these tests do not capture the complexity of real-world clinical care. (1/2)

How is AI changing your work in healthcare? If you work in this space, we'd love 10 minutes of your time to share your experience in our study: stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Each year, 38 million ER visits stem from physical injury, and over 25% of patients report PTSD symptoms within a year. New research suggests the free PTSD Coach app could be a powerful self-management tool for post-injury distress. Learn more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Applications for our $100k Stanford Center for Digital Health Research Grants are due February 1st.

Learn more and submit your proposal: cdh.stanford.edu/grant2026

AI is changing healthcare, and we want to know how it’s changing your work. If you’re a healthcare worker, you can share your experience in our latest study. Take this survey in less than 10 minutes to participate: stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Exploring the use of AI authors and reviewers at Agents4Science - Nature Biotechnology Nature Biotechnology - Exploring the use of AI authors and reviewers at Agents4Science

A new paper from CDH-funded researcher James Zou explores the rise of AI “co-scientists”: agents contributing to hypothesis generation, experimental design, analysis, & writing. Learn more about how we can better understand their strengths and limitations in our work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From injury prevention to disease treatment, understanding gait matters. GaitDynamics, a generative foundation model developed by CDH-funded researcher Akshay Chaudhari & collaborators, shows the power of this model trained on large & diverse gait data.
See study here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rare disease research moves faster when people are better connected. The award-winning film, “Matter of Time” highlights Stanford scientists Dr. Jean Tang and Dr. Anthony Oro and the role of digital tools in accelerating treatments for conditions like EB. Learn more: www.matteroftimefilm.com

What can almost 20 years of Reddit threads teach us about atrial fibrillation? A new study uses large language models to uncover patient perceptions that shape shared treatment decisions.

Learn more in the full study: www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Working on innovative research with the potential to transform health? Applications for our Digital Health Research Grant are open until February 1.

Apply now: cdh.stanford.edu/grant2026

Special thank you to Mingming Tong for the beautiful photo.

Sleep takes up a third of our lives, but its potential for AI is only beginning to emerge. SleepFM can predict 130 diseases from a single night of rest, showing how foundation models can interpret the language of sleep.

Read the full study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(2/2) Viewing short, animated storytelling video also improved knowledge at 2 weeks, increased expectation to reduce sodium, and saw high voluntary engagement. NCT05735457. Read the full publication here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by Maya Adam Sodium Trial Video final

(1/2) New in npjDigitalMed (Jan 9): In an online RCT of 8,616 U.S. adults, one viewing of a short, animated storytelling video about dietary sodium, such as the one below, improved knowledge immediately. youtu.be/QYqAbbifI9U

Wishing the Stanford community a happy new year.

As a reminder, our 2026 research grant applications are now open. We encourage collaborative projects that bring together scientists across disciplines or schools at Stanford.

Info here: cdh.stanford.edu/grant2026

Research of the Year 2025 This Medical News article is an editor’s choice roundup of the most impactful, newsworthy, and novel studies published in JAMA over the past year.

Congratulations to CDH-funded researcher, Pascal Geldsetzer, & his co-authors whose article “Herpes Zoster Vaccination and Dementia Occurrence” was selected for @jama.com's inaugural Research of the Year roundup. See all research featured here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

YouTube video by Stanford Medicine Is exercise the health hero we all need? | Ep.2: Health Compass Podcast

On the @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social Health Compass podcast CDH Associate Directors Maya Adam & Euan Ashley discuss what exercise does to the body on a molecular level & how to incorporate exercise into daily life.

Watch the full discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA77...

A new study from CDH Affiliated Faculty Johnathan Chen and colleagues examines whether the amount of clinical case information given to an LLM affects its decision-making performance, exploring four content input approaches.

Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Artificial intelligence-generated draft replies to patient messages in pediatrics AbstractObjectives. This study describes the utilization and experiences of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated draft responses to patient messages in p

AI-powered tools have the potential to meaningfully improve the day-to-day tasks in pediatric care, according to CDH Affiliate faculty member Dr. Natalie M. Pageler's recent paper. Discover the full findings here: academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/ar...

Investigating the Effectiveness of CBT-i Coach, a Free, Publicly Available mHealth App for Insomnia - Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science CBT-i Coach is a free, publicly available mobile health application (app) that provides users with the core intervention components of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-i). By making thes...

A new article from CDH Affiliated Faculty Eric Kuhn & co-authors suggests that CBT-i Coach, a free & publicly-available app, could meaningfully improve users’ sleep with cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-i) psychoeducation & tools.

Learn more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A new study from CDH Associate Director, Fatima Rodriguez, and her co-authors shows how combining LLM translation with professional review can help bridge the digital divide in cardiovascular health research.

Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Predicting treatment retention in medication for opioid use disorder: a machine learning approach using NLP and LLM-derived clinical features AbstractObjective. Building upon our previous work on predicting treatment retention in medications for opioid use disorder, we aimed to improve 6‐month re

A new study from CDH affiliated researchers, Tina Hernandez-Boussard and Jonathan Chen, demonstrates how integrating EHR data with LLM-extracted features strengthens the prediction of treatment retention. Read more here: academic.oup.com/jamia/articl...

YouTube video by Stanford Department of Medicine Wearables, Hypertension Prediction, and the Patient–Physician Dyad with Sumbal Desai

On this week's episode of The Future of Medicine podcast, CDH Advisory Board member and VP of Health at Apple, Sumbul Desai, and host Euan Ashley, discuss the remarkable trajectory of Desai's career. See the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXRj... @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social

30,000 Feet and No Heart Monitor How wearable tech could improve in-flight care when doctors have no tools — and no time to waste.

This article from @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social features #StanfordCDH's Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH, Daniel Seung Kim, MD, PhD, MPH, Eleni Linos, MD, MPH, DrPH, & Ewan Webster & explores how wearable tech could transform in-flight medical emergencies. stanford.io/43J7uNX

Student & Trainee Travel Award

#StanfordCDH is now accepting applications for Student & Trainee Travel Awards! Graduate students, residents & postdocs can receive up to $1,000 in support for presenting #DigitalHealth research at scientific conferences. stanford.io/3FcTZ0u

Student & Trainee Travel Award

Applications are open for the next cycle of #StanfordCDH's Student & Trainee Travel Awards, which offer Stanford graduate students, residents & postdoctoral fellows up to $1,000 to support oral presentations on #DigitalHealth topics at scientific conferences. stanford.io/3FcTZ0u

#StanfordDayOfGiving is now live — help us shape the future of #DigitalHealth! Give now to May 15 at 5 p.m. & double your impact: stanford.io/3GPRjqh