Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign

?? Introducing the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign Read the full story about what this means for us: https://lnkd.in/g49JVkZU

Proud to see the Stanford Biodesign Digital Health team’s work to help advance Parkinson's disease care! This research project led by Dr. Helen Bronte-Stewart at Stanford University School of Medicine proposes a solution to a long-time unmet need for clinicians— high-resolution metrics on Parkinson's disease to help monitor and treat patients beyond in-person exams. The Stanford Biodesign Digital Health team contributed to this project by designing a monitoring system that consists of a portable device called “KeyDuo” paired with a smartphone-connected platform that patients can use at home to measure the severity of their Parkinson's disease symptoms. This innovative approach not only enhances patient care but also provides clinicians with objective real-time data to make informed treatment decisions. This is a great example of multidisciplinary collaboration and a demonstration of how digital health innovations can democratize access to healthcare by making it possible for more people to receive care regardless of who and where they are. Congratulations to all team members involved in this research, including Paul Schmiedmayer, Vishnu Ravi, MD, Oliver Aalami, and the Bronte-Stewart lab, for their work on this impactful project. Read more about these technology in this Scope's article: https://lnkd.in/gzRfweWd

What does the future hold for Medicare's #CED program? Join Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign, the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, and the Tufts Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) in Washington DC, on September 25, for a review of the latest perspectives and conversations with officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).? Stanford Biodesign’s director, Josh Makower, will share insights from our Policy Program’s research on how payment/coverage policies impact innovation. Register now to join in-person or virtually: https://lnkd.in/enQiQwRV

Cheers for in-person meet ups! It was great to have Piper Nieters Su, the Policy Program domain director for healthcare finance and payment, here this week for a working session with the Policy Fellows. Piper is a healthcare expert and attorney with more than 20 years of experience in government engagement and strategic communications. She will help the fellows develop an understanding of the current state of play in healthcare payments and what may come in the future.? #biodesign #innovationeducation #healthpolicy

The Covid-19 pandemic saw a rapid transformation from in-person to virtual care models, but the urgency of the pandemic limited the full development of such models. The result is that physicians are experiencing a “crisis of time” in their workflow, with increased electronic documentation and an abundance of messages from patients in their inboxes. ?? In a new paper in NEJM Catalyst, Stanford Biodesign Policy Fellow, Roderick (Rory) Thompson, and Senior Advisor, Kevin Schulman, together with Stacy Wood, Leah Rosengaus, and Kavita Patel propose a “Digitally Enabled Care (DEC) framework” that leverages technology to enhance the physician-patient relationship — whether that be in person or remotely, synchronously or asynchronously — in a scalable manner that eases physician’s overload. Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/esX9bNqX #healthpolicy

In line with our purpose of advancing health outcomes and health equity, we continue to evolve our fellows’ experience to give them a greater awareness of issues of access and inequity in healthcare. That’s why this year, in addition to shadowing care providers in clinical environments, our fellows’ needs finding experience includes a community immersion component: they will spend time at different community organizations learning how the social determinants of health affect wellness and healthcare, and interacting with populations who may be encountering barriers to seeking services in formal clinical settings. Their first community-based engagement was San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood with Code Tenderloin. This volunteer-run organization provides empowerment, dignity, and opportunity to Tenderloin residents in need by removing barriers that keep marginalized and underrepresented people from securing long-term employment and providing support for the community in the form of health checks, meals, and housing. Code Tenderloin’s founder, Del Seymour, encourages various groups to come and spend time with them to deepen empathy and understanding, and provide insight into the issues that they face that can translate into actionable solutions that can uplift all. The Code Tenderloin group showed us the wonderful work being done in the community, including the Tenderloin museum celebrating local heroes, initiatives to care for children and youth, and the focus on providing safe, green spaces for the community to enjoy. Additionally, the group also discussed the significant issues faced by the Tenderloin, including the housing crisis, substance use, and lack of access to healthcare faced by many. By sharing more about these challenges, Code Tenderloin allowed fellows to see how the social determinants of health and issues of inequity affect health and influence health outcomes for different groups.? The rising sophomores currently enrolled in our Sophomore College course, Needs Finding in Healthcare, could also join this visit to find needs that may not be immediately apparent in a clinical setting. By creating opportunities for our trainees to engage, learn from, and build connections with? different communities, we hope that the innovations they conceive will reflect and serve the needs of a more diverse population. We are very thankful to Code Tenderloin for the warm welcome and for showing us around their neighborhood. You can learn more about their mission here: https://lnkd.in/gYgjqyP9

??? Join us this Wednesday for our monthly Innovation & Health Equity discussion! ?“Geography and Inequity: Key Structural Determinants of Health in the US”, a session with Sarah Hooper, JD, Professor of Practice at UC Law San Francisco and Associate Dean of the UCSF-UC Law SF Master of Science in Health Policy & Law. ? Date: September 18th from 1:15 - 2:15 PM (PST) ??Register to attend the webinar here: https://bit.ly/4dbeENv CC: Bay Area Global Health Alliance, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health

Eleven rising sophomores are participating in our three-week intersession course, “Needs Finding in Healthcare,” as part of Stanford’s Sophomore College (SoCo) program. This is the only course at Stanford that provides undergraduate students with a clinical immersion experience. Before they head to the clinics and ORs, the students have the opportunity to practice observations in the simulation center with the assistance of faculty and some outstanding Biodesign actors.? They’re also being exposed to the Biodesign process more broadly through panel discussions and presentations. Last week, they heard from Paul Yock, Josh Makower, and our second-year fellows Andréas Ward, Anastasia Ntracha, and Ignacio Pérez. Many thanks to the Stanford Medicine emergency department, to the course leaders and to all who made it happen! Learn more about this course here: https://lnkd.in/e6BJWNQv #innovationeducation #healthtech

Earlier this month, our Innovation fellows started their clinical immersion. ??This part of their journey, the identify phase, is all about finding unmet health needs in the areas of physical and rehabilitation medicine, pain medicine, and substance abuse. They are directly observing what’s done in the cycle of care and how it affects the patient, the provider, and the system as a whole. By the end of the month, they will have identified hundreds of needs which they will then proceed to evaluate and prioritize. Stay tuned for more updates on their progress!