David Entwistle, president and CEO of Stanford Health Care,
and Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of the Stanford School of Medicine. Steve Fisch
Imagine that you are sitting in a film theater. As you
recline to your seat and the lights dim, the beginning of a feature movie
flashes onto the display in the front of you. But after watching for most
effective a minute, you are suddenly asked to go away. Halfway thru the movie,
you are allowed to go back for another minute of viewing, and then all over
again on the stop.
Now, reconstruct the story. Who had been the principle
characters? How did they relate to one another? And why did the film stop the
manner it did?
Piecing together an entire movie like this will be
difficult, if no longer not possible. Yet in fitness care, that is how we
commonly have interaction with sufferers. When patients are available in for a
go to, we see a small image of their health tale, frequently while they're
already unwell, and we take care of them in that second.
On both aspect of the episode, we omit out on a wealth of
records — understanding that would help us recognize a way to customize take
care of sufferers and intervene earlier than disorder has a threat to strike.
Advances in digital technology are permitting us to fill in the ones blanks.
And these varieties of advances are occurring right here at Stanford Medicine.
Stanford Medicine’s strategic precedence is to be digitally
pushed. That consists of embracing new technologies that permit us to
continuously screen patient health and interact human beings in packages
designed to expect and prevent disease.
In 2017, Stanford Medicine took an important step closer to
this purpose by partnering with Apple to launch the biggest-ever digital health
study of its type: the usage of Apple Watch to display screen for irregular
heart rhythms in wearers. In much less than a year, we enrolled more than four
hundred,000 participants within the observe, a sample length large than the
populace of New Orleans, and continuously monitored their heartbeats. Our aim
is to learn if Apple Watch can detect atrial fibrillation, a coronary heart
condition that reasons 130,000 deaths and 750,000 hospitalizations in the
United States each year, yet often is going undiagnosed.
This kind of research, consisting of its scale, is
unprecedented. And we are hoping it's going to assist us apprehend how virtual
fitness technology can one day enhance human fitness at a population stage.
That future can be arriving earlier than a lot of us imagined.
As a device to aid inside the prevention and remedy of
disorder, artificial intelligence additionally has notable ability. Whether it
takes the shape of a deep-learning algorithm which could expect patient results
at some stage in and after a sanatorium live, or of AI-assisted imaging
software program that could diagnose 14 situations, Stanford Medicine is
accelerating a new era of health care with a purpose to be described by era
augmentation.
However, while we embrace the promise of these new talents,
one element received’t exchange: the importance of the patient-medical doctor
bond, including the essential role of human compassion in healing. Stanford
Medicine’s imaginative and prescient for the future is one that combines
high-tech with excessive-touch to provide our sufferers a absolutely personal
care revel in. That, after all, is what matters most.
As we recollect our personal destiny at Stanford Medicine,
we're excited to have Paul King becoming a member of our organization as the
brand new president and business leader of Stanford Children’s Health and
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Paul is a visionary leader who
will manual our persisted boom and preeminence in pediatric and obstetric care.
We are thrilled to have him on our team. We also thank Dennis Lund, MD, for his
incredible management and his many vital contributions whilst serving as period
in-between president and CEO of Stanford Children’s Health
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