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I’m excited to announce the program for the first day of Medicine X on Sept. 27, 2013. The opening day of the conference by tradition focuses on an important and timely topic in the field of emerging technology and medicine in a day-long symposium format. The sessions for the core Medicine X conference on Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 28-29, 2013) will be announced shortly.
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I’m proud to announce a Stanford Medicine X Master Class with Ben Zotto on on mobile application development. The Master Class will be offered as part of the 2013 Stanford Medicine X conference, held on the campus of Stanford University September 27-29, 2013.

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Medicine X is a relationship-based conference that is intimate and friendly enough that anyone can and should feel comfortable speaking with anyone. You should expect that you will make some new friends at Medicine X, and learn a great deal in the process!

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By the end of last year’s Medicine X conference, I had lost my voice.

An amazing, dedicated, but very small staff of young people work together with me each year to make the magic of Medicine X happen. Too many late nights and too little sleep had taken their toll on me. On Saturday September 29th, I was busy trying to help our engineers figure out why some of the main stage lights were flickering (turned out it was interference from additional wifi nodes we had installed to boost connectivity for the hundreds of laptops and iPads in use). We were deep in conversation when a flash of crimson appeared on the main stage.

It was Regina Holliday.

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I’m so excited to announce a special session at Stanford Medicine X in September that was developed in collaboration with Dr. Teresa Zayas-Caban, a senior manager, Health IT, for the Agency for Health Research Quality (AHRQ).  In this exciting session, you’ll learn about AHRQ, funding opportunities, and how to get involved in the field of health IT research from top researchers in the field.

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Stanford Medicine X is once again joining forces with Palo Alto-based firm IDEO to offer ePatients the opportunity to collaborate with designers, researchers, technologists and health-care providers to spark new ideas for improving patient care. Participants in last year’s Stanford Medicine X | IDEO Design Challenge called the workshop “a very healing process” and praised the experience for allowing creativity to “flourish and grow.”

At the day-long event, participants will be divided into teams and each group will include an ePatient who has experience managing a chronic disease and who uses technology to help facilitate his or her own care. Using a problem statement based on the ePatients’ chronic illness and application, the teams will work through the design-thinking process to develop potential solutions.

IDEO was an extraordinary experience. I met tons of new contacts, including entrepreneurs, physicians, investors. I was really impressed by this culture of support, creativity and change that Medicine X cultivates — conference attendee

The goal of the workshop is to engage stakeholders in a design setting to solve a patient-centered health problem as a unified team, and to share their design and experience with attendees at Medicine X. It is meant to inspire collaboration and ignite creativity among a diversity of thinkers, both challenge participants and Medicine X audience members.

We are thrilled to partner with IDEO and offer this incredible experience for Medicine X attendees.

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I’m excited to announce the opening keynote speaker for Stanford Medicine X 2013 will be Jack Andraka.

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I’m so proud to announce selections for the 2013 Stanford Medicine X ePatient Scholars program. The process of selection was a lengthy one that involved the participation of the entire 2013 Stanford Medicine X ePatient Advisory Panel (Liza Bernstein, Nick Dawson, Britt Johnson, Sarah Kucharski) as well as two former ePatient scholars who will return this year as Stanford Medicine X ePatient Mentors (Sean Ahrens and Hugo Campos). Over the course of the next few weeks we will announce ePatient travel awards and the assignment of scholars to our program tracks.

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