Stanford

Stanford offering free patient engagement course

Stanford University’s  AIM Lab  and Medicine Xwill be hosting an online course focused on patient engagement design, with the goal of educating interested participants on a number of key elements concerning patient interaction. The course, which begins Sept. 9, is open to just about anyone — patients, providers, caregivers, entrepreneurs, “and anyone interested in how we […]

StartX accelerator launching new Stanford-area lab with QB3

Stanford-backed accelerator StartX has partnered with QB3 to open a new life sciences laboratory called, aptly, “StartX-QB3 Labs.” It’s the first research space that’s both close to Stanford and is focused on that bench-to-bedside approach of bringing entrepreneurs from academia to industry. The new, 2,000-square-foot space will be able to house up to 20 life science […]

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Startup strives to build a better symptom search engine using patients own words, open source data

A patient facing search engine app MedWhat wants to achieve something its co-founder believes is lacking from similar tools — fast, comprehensive responses to patient questions no matter how simple or complex. In an interview with MedCity News, entrepreneur and co-founder Arturo Devesa said he believes two ingredients are essential to achieving that: open source […]