Stanford Biodesign Digital Health
@stanfordbdhg.bsky.social
Education, Research, and Translation of Digital Health at the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign of Stanford University. https://bdh.stanford.edu/
Great work by our team: Patrick Langer, Thomas Kaar, Max Rosenblatt, Aydin Zahedivash, @draalami.bsky.social, and @pschmiedmayer.bsky.social, as well as our collaborators at Stanford, Google, Amazon, and ETH Zurich.
A huge team effort and an exciting step at the intersection of AI and medicine!
A huge team effort and an exciting step at the intersection of AI and medicine!
Introducing #OpenTSLM, a new family of Time-Series Language Models that natively integrate multivariate time-series data to enable multimodal reasoning.
Outstanding work by Patrick, Thomas, and our amazing team at Stanford, in collaboration with Google, Amazon, and ETH 🚀
arxiv.org/abs/2510.02410
Outstanding work by Patrick, Thomas, and our amazing team at Stanford, in collaboration with Google, Amazon, and ETH 🚀
arxiv.org/abs/2510.02410
OpenTSLM: Time-Series Language Models for Reasoning over Multivariate Medical Text- and Time-Series Data
LLMs have emerged as powerful tools for interpreting multimodal data. In medicine, they hold particular promise for synthesizing large volumes of clinical information into actionable insights and digi...
arxiv.org
October 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Great work by our team: Patrick Langer, Thomas Kaar, Max Rosenblatt, Aydin Zahedivash, @draalami.bsky.social, and @pschmiedmayer.bsky.social, as well as our collaborators at Stanford, Google, Amazon, and ETH Zurich.
A huge team effort and an exciting step at the intersection of AI and medicine!
A huge team effort and an exciting step at the intersection of AI and medicine!
At #ClimateWeekNYC, Vishnu Ravi (@vishnuravi.bsky.social) showcased Stanford Spezi at Cornell Tech’s Health in Climate AI Hackathon, helping teams use our Stanford Spezi framework, JupyterHealth, and AI tools to address health impacts from heat, air quality, and severe weather.
October 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
At #ClimateWeekNYC, Vishnu Ravi (@vishnuravi.bsky.social) showcased Stanford Spezi at Cornell Tech’s Health in Climate AI Hackathon, helping teams use our Stanford Spezi framework, JupyterHealth, and AI tools to address health impacts from heat, air quality, and severe weather.
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Great updates in Swift 6.2; we are looking forward to incorporating all of this in our work with @stanfordspezi.bsky.social at @stanfordbdhg.bsky.social 🚀
Thank you to everyone working on all these changes and future improvements to the language!
Thank you to everyone working on all these changes and future improvements to the language!
Swift 6.2 is here, including so much 🆕🥳:
⏩Approachable concurrency
🦺Opt-in strict memory safety
📦WebAssembly support
🏃Faster build perf for macros
🐞Enhanced async debugging
📚Inline stack-based arrays
🚇Subprocess support
🧪Test result attachments
www.swift.org/blog/swift-6...
⏩Approachable concurrency
🦺Opt-in strict memory safety
📦WebAssembly support
🏃Faster build perf for macros
🐞Enhanced async debugging
📚Inline stack-based arrays
🚇Subprocess support
🧪Test result attachments
www.swift.org/blog/swift-6...
Swift 6.2 Released
We’re excited to announce Swift 6.2, a release aimed at making every Swift developer more productive, regardless of where or how you write code. From improved tooling and libraries to enhancements in ...
www.swift.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Great updates in Swift 6.2; we are looking forward to incorporating all of this in our work with @stanfordspezi.bsky.social at @stanfordbdhg.bsky.social 🚀
Thank you to everyone working on all these changes and future improvements to the language!
Thank you to everyone working on all these changes and future improvements to the language!
🇸🇪 Just wrapped up an incredible week hosting Team Sahlma, winners of the first international replication of our CS342 Building for Digital Health course in Sweden! Svea Strassburger, Frida Piscator Petersson, Amina Shaji and Houshi He, mentored by Dr. Zoha Saket, tackled IVF treatment challenges..
September 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🇸🇪 Just wrapped up an incredible week hosting Team Sahlma, winners of the first international replication of our CS342 Building for Digital Health course in Sweden! Svea Strassburger, Frida Piscator Petersson, Amina Shaji and Houshi He, mentored by Dr. Zoha Saket, tackled IVF treatment challenges..
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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!
Thanks to @yuriquintana.com for bringing this community together!
@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
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
June 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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!
Thanks to @yuriquintana.com for bringing this community together!
@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
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
June 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
@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
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
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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
Open to all—devs, students, researchers & anyone curious about digital health.
Register: bit.ly/SpeziWWDC
June 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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
Open to all—devs, students, researchers & anyone curious about digital health.
Register: bit.ly/SpeziWWDC
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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
Register: bit.ly/SpeziWWDC
Learn more about Spezi: github.com/StanfordSpezi
June 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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
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.
May 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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.
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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 🚀
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!
May 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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 🚀
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!
May 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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)!
May 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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)!
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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:
I am proud to lead a team of so many talented researchers and students at Stanford Biodesign Digital Health:
@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.
May 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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:
I am proud to lead a team of so many talented researchers and students at Stanford Biodesign Digital Health:
@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.
May 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
@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
Applications are now open for the 2026–27 cohort!
Know someone ready to lead in healthtech innovation? bit.ly/BiodesignFellow
May 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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
Applications are now open for the 2026–27 cohort!
Know someone ready to lead in healthtech innovation? bit.ly/BiodesignFellow
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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. 🚀
Dr. Vishnu Ravi (@vishnuravi.bsky.social), and Dr. Aydin Zahedivash — who balance their clinical careers with pioneering work in digital health. 🚀
March 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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. 🚀
Dr. Vishnu Ravi (@vishnuravi.bsky.social), and Dr. Aydin Zahedivash — who balance their clinical careers with pioneering work in digital health. 🚀
March 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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. 🚀
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! 🚀
March 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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! 🚀
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Checkout SpeziLLM; a great way to integrate LLMs in digital health applications including on-device LLM execution: github.com/StanfordSpez...
March 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Checkout SpeziLLM; a great way to integrate LLMs in digital health applications including on-device LLM execution: github.com/StanfordSpez...
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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....
March 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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....
March 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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....
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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!
Excited to see the usage of @stanfordspezi.bsky.social in more and more research apps!
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/ ]
📱 BALANCE App: A study on enhancing distress tolerance in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.
Read more: [🔗 formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e70278/ ]
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…
formative.jmir.org
March 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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!
Excited to see the usage of @stanfordspezi.bsky.social in more and more research apps!
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Check out SpeziBluetooth, amazing work by our talented students and team members:
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
github.com/StanfordSpezi/SpeziBluetooth
March 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Check out SpeziBluetooth, amazing work by our talented students and team members:
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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
github.com/StanfordSpezi/SpeziBluetooth
March 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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
github.com/StanfordSpezi/SpeziBluetooth
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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!
March 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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!