New research led by Dr. Moritz Schaefer, mentored by CDH-funded researchers Zinaida Good & Jure Leskovec, introduces SpatialWhisperer. This work was presented at the International Conference of Machine Learning last week. Learn more and access the full model: github.com/zinagoodlab/...

Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH & Chiadi E. Ndumele, MD, PhD, MHS, FAHA discuss their work on the @americanheart.bsky.social guidelines around Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic syndrome. The guidelines aim to provide a unified, evidence-based framework for clinicians everywhere. youtu.be/GRCmFIiCC-M?...

(1/2) We are thrilled to have Strava as part of our Industry Affiliate program.

The Stanford Center for Digital Health Annual Symposium will bring researchers, clinicians, and business leaders together on the @stanforduniversity.bsky.social campus to explore the latest research and innovation at the intersection of health and technology. Register now at cdhannualsymposium.com

(1/2) CDH Associate Director Fatima Rodriguez joined the Metabolic Health Business Building Summit hosted by the McKinsey Health Institute & @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social alongside Dr. Mehmood Khan, CEO of Hevolution Foundation, & Prof. Andrew Scott, Professor of Economics at London Business School.

In a study, CDH Affiliated Faculty Jonathan Chen & co-authors, found that LLMs outperformed both physicians & older AI systems on sophisticated clinical reasoning cases — surpassing a benchmark that has defined expert medical computing for 65+ years. Read more: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What does it truly mean to quiet the “food noise” with GLP-1 medications? The @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social took a closer look at the new work published in @jamanetworkopen.com by CDH-funded researchers. medicine.stanford.edu/news/stories...

In a new @jamanetworkopen.com study from Stanford Center for Digital Health, researchers interviewed patients about their real experiences with #GLP1 medications. For many, the story was about life when food was no longer in charge. https://stanford.io/4gfNpGU

(1/4) Passionate about storytelling and digital health research? Stanford CDH is recruiting 3 Stanford students/trainees to help share our work with the world. Apply by July 31st. More details below.

We are thrilled to welcome Strava to our Industry Affiliate program. Through this program Strava will collaborate with Stanford researchers for a longer investment in sports science. Learn more about the collaboration: press.strava.com/articles/str...

How do patients feel about ambient AI scribes? A new CDH Digital Health Grant-funded study of 2,000+ patients found strong support for the technology. Read the full publication to learn more: academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/ar... @amia.org

In this new invited commentary in @natmachintell.nature.com , our own Jiyeong Kim, and co-author, Carolyn I. Rodriguez, discuss PsychFound, a domain-specific LLM that demonstrated a potential for LLM grounded in real-world clinical practice in psychiatry. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Our 2026 Grant Awardees, Summer Han, Natalie Lui, & Shreya Shah, are developing a scalable agentic AI framework that helps maximize the lifesaving potential of early detection of lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death in the US. Learn more: cdh.stanford.edu/research-por...

Is a single comorbidity score enough for all patients? At the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM), CDH travel awardee, Yeon Mi Hwang, presented a data-driven, personalized framework for more accurate comorbidity scoring. Learn more about our travel award: cdh.stanford.edu/industry-aff...

(1/2) Allison Okamura, a 2026 CDH Grant Awardee, aims to make aging in place safer & more manageable by creating transformative soft robotic physical assistance technology.

What helps patients sustain the benefits of GLP-1 RAs over time? A new study from CDH led by Affiliated Scholar Isabella de Vere Hunt shows that treatment is only part of the equation — behavioral support and lifestyle change are still essential. Read the full study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

What does more holistic, patient-centered care look like in the era of GLP-1s? We led a workshop with experts and industry leaders across healthcare, research, and technology to discuss the future of metabolic health. Read the full report: cdh.stanford.edu/research-por...

(1/2) 2026 CDH Grant Awardees Zinaida Good & Jure Leskovec are working to help accelerate T cell therapies by combining the power of artificial intelligence and real patient data.

PTSD remains widely untreated in the US, with care out of reach for many. A new publication from CDH Affiliated Faculty Eric Kuhn and colleagues review how digital mental health technologies are reshaping treatment: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2026 CDH Grant Awardees Margaret Cychosz & Matthew Fitzgerald are using wearables and machine learning-powered speech analysis to improve language development for children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing. Learn more about all of our 2026 grant awardees at cdh.stanford.edu/research-por...

My Heart Counts is evolving into a fully digital research platform thanks to CDH-funded researcher Daniel Seung Kim, combining real-world health data with fully autonomous randomized trials. Learn more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Meet two of our 2026 Digital Health Grant Awardees: Kavita Sarin & Helen Bronte-Stewart who are working to develop a method to detect Parkinson's before traditional diagnosis by combining digital cognitive motor signals with skin biopsy. Learn more: cdh.stanford.edu/research-por...

In 2026, Stanford CDH’s call for proposals received 149 applications. From those proposals, we funded 5 projects at $100,000 each. In addition we funded $125,000 to 3 more projects for a total of $625,000 awarded to 8 teams. See our full portfolio of funded research: cdh.stanford.edu/research-por...

Where does AI stand today, and where is it headed next? The @stanfordhai.bsky.social #AIIndex2026 breaks it all down with the rigorous, objective, and data-driven insights. Read the full report here: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

Our team had a great time at the My Heart Counts 5K where we walked & ran to support the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, which helps families with genetic heart disease access life-saving treatments & care. You can still donate & support here: pro.gofundme.com/team/819273

(1/2) Built to tackle cardiovascular disease — the world's leading cause of death — My Heart Counts app recently got an upgrade. Download the app here: apps.apple.com/us/app/my-he...

We’re proud to partner with @stanfordhai.bsky.social to support the next wave of innovative AI research. These seed grants will fund 29 research teams totaling $2.17M — and we’re excited to co-fund three of the projects at the intersection of AI & healthcare. hai.stanford.edu/news/collabo...

Our partners @stanfordhai.bsky.social just released the #AIIndex2026: a deep dive into what's ahead for AI with opportunities, the critical gaps, and what it all means for our collective future. Learn more: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

About 50% of people with diabetes develop nerve damage in their feet & many don't find out until it's too late. A new study from inaugural CDH pilot grant awardees explores how a smartphone app can catch it sooner and with more precision. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Where does AI belong in clinical workflows? A randomized trial from CDH Affiliate Faculty Jonathan Chen, Kevin Schulman, & co-authors, found that both 1st & 2nd-opinion AI improved clinicians’ accuracy, but who goes first can lead to different errors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're excited to introduce the 2026 Stanford Center for Digital Health Grant Awardees, a cohort of scientists working on projects that can transform health. Join us in celebrating this exceptional group of researchers from across @stanforduniversity.bsky.social cdh.stanford.edu/research-por...

A study led by Rohan Shad & Will Hiesinger in collaboration with CDH's @euanashley.bsky.social & Curtis Langlotz & others introduces a foundational AI system for cardiac MRI, achieving clinical-grade diagnostic accuracy with a fraction of the data typically required. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Designed to take on the vast landscape of modern biological data, CellVoyager is an AI agent that autonomously runs complex scRNA-seq analyses at scale. Learn more about the work from CDH-funded researcher James Zou and team: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What if all it took to start making better choices was one little nudge? A recent study found that digital “Microsteps" can shift expectations toward healthier behaviors for adults on GLP-1 RAs. Learn more: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @jama.com

Hospitals often use e-alerts to flag acute kidney injury (AKI), but do they actually work? In a study of 3.1 million adults in Wales, CDH-funded researcher Pascal Geldsetzer & colleagues found no measurable impact on patient outcomes. Learn more: www.kidney-international.org/article/S008...

With its ability to identify and flag potentially harmful gene variants, Evo 2 has clear clinical implications in the field of biological complexity — which is why CDH-funded researcher Brian Hie and his team have made it fully open source. Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Walk with Me: Fatima Rodriguez studies heart disease prevention and population health to improve outcomes by reaching patients earlier. Hear what inspired her path—and how she starts each day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U_X... @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social @stanfordcdh.bsky.social

CDH-funded researcher @brianhie.bsky.social & co-authors recently introduced MULTI-evolve, a rapid evolution framework that has the potential to advance protein design, a big step forward for biological research, biotechnology, & therapeutic development. Learn more: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

(1/2) As the demand for abdominal CT scans increases and radiologists remain in short supply, the need for automated image analysis is growing.

(1/2) Evo 2 is a new AI model that could transform how we predict and prevent disease. Trained on 9 trillion DNA base pairs, it flags harmful genetic variants and generates realistic DNA sequences. Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Could habits on GLP-1 medications improve with a small digital nudge? CDH leadership & team found participants responded positively to simple digital reminders inspiring researchers to hone in on more microstep health tools. med.stanford.edu/news/insight... @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social

What if a single night of sleep could flag your future health risks? SleepFM, developed by CDH-funded researcher James Zou & colleagues, was trained on 600K+ hours of sleep data from 65K+ individuals using AI to forecast risk for 100+ diseases. sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260109023114.htm

Digital health tools in pathology have advanced rapidly, yet many have not been integrated effectively. SpEMO is a new computational framework that integrates multiple modalities creating a powerful tool for discovery & clinical applications. Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/2) Evo 2 is a new AI model trained on 9 trillion DNA base pairs that can predict the impact of disease-causing gene variants and generate realistic DNA sequences across a wide range of organisms.

We’re still gathering voices for the AI Healthcare Worker Perspectives survey, and we’d love to hear yours. Take the ten-minute survey here: stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

(1/2) Most research on language models (LLMs) in digital health asks whether they meet clinical standards of accuracy. But what about patients and families using this technology to understand their own care?

The AI Healthcare Worker Perspectives survey is still live, and if you work in healthcare, we’d love to hear from you. Take the ten-minute survey here: stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We are pleased to share that the @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social Canary Center will host their Symposium on April 28th. The program will focus on minimally invasive strategies to detect diseases, including cancer, at earlier, more curable stages. Details here: canarycenter.stanford.edu/canary-cente...

Can animation help democratize global health messages? A new paper from CDH Associate Director Maya Adam & co-author Till Bärnighausen explores how animated storytelling could help spread the right messages about health around the world. Learn more: rdcu.be/e4sGn

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...