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Dear Friend of Medicine X,

Stanford Medicine X is the leading patient-centered conference on emerging technology and medicine. Our 2013 conference was the most discussed healthcare conference recorded in social media, setting a world-record for the number of tweets sent in a single day during any healthcare conference. The conversation about presentations made during Medicine X 2013 continued long after the conference ended, generating over 100 blog posts in just the first month after the conference concluded.

Who attends Medicine X? Thought leaders and innovators from over 30 countries and major media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, Bloomberg News, The Economist, Time Magazine, Wired Magazine, and Popular Science have attended our past conferences. Medicine X is a conference designed for everyone. Whether you're a patient, physician, researcher or technologist, Stanford University’s Medicine X conference is a premier venue to present your work to the world.

There are many exciting ways for you to participate in the conference as a presenter and we hope you will consider completing a submission. The options include:

  • Oral Presentation
  • Poster Presentation
  • Panel Discussion
  • Technology Hub Exhibit (New! See below)
  • Workshop

New to Medicine X this year is our Technology Hub, a dedicated space for exhibits and demonstrations throughout the 3-day Medicine X conference. This is the perfect place to provide educational demonstrations of your technology to Medicine X delegates.

The opportunity to share your work at Medicine X ends on March 1, 2014. Please complete your abstract submission through the Stanford Medicine X website today.

We hope to see you at Stanford September 5-7, 2014 for another amazing conference experience!

Sincerely,

Larry Chu, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine
Organizing Chairman, Stanford Medicine X

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Medicine X Sets New World Record at 2013 Conference

Medicine X 2013 was the most-discussed healthcare conference ever measured by the healthcare analytics firm Symplur, setting a new world record for the average number of tweets per day at a healthcare conference. Participant engagement in the social media conversation surrounding Medicine X was passionate, generating nearly 9,000 tweets per day--a number that far outpaced the tweets generated by its peer conferences. The Medicine X hashtag (#MedX) was on fire from the very first day of the gathering, quickly trending on Twitter, and at one point becoming the most frequently used hashtag in the U.S. on that day.

Medicine X is the clear social media leader among the most innovative healthcare conferences, and the resounding success of the 2013 conference has set the stage for an even greater level of engagement in 2014.

Susannah Fox on Feb 6, 2014 at Stanford Medicine X Live!

Join us at 6PM PST for another episode of Stanford Medicine X Live! tomorrow, on February 6, 2014. Our guest this week will be Susannah Fox, Associate Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project. Susannah will be speaking on the topic of participatory research for patient engagement. The class will be moderated by Stanford Medicine X 2013 ePatient Scholar, Brett Alder.
Click here to view the broadcast on Feb 6, 2014 at 6PM PST.

Why Should Physicians Engage? Stanford MedX Live Feb 11, 2014

Join us on Tuesday February 11, 2014 at 5:30PM PST as we discuss the question, "Why should physicians engage?" and the Medicine X physician experience, moderated by our own Liza Bernstein with a panel of physician attendees of Medicine X including: Deanna Attai, Ruth Ann Crystal, Marc Katz, Leslie Kernisan, Theresa Tuan, Leana Wen, and others. You won't want to miss the next episode of Stanford Medicine X Live! Click here to view the LIVE broadcast on Feb 11, 2014 at 5:30 PST.

Who Attends Stanford Medicine X?

Medicine X brings together the most innovative and engaging minds in academia and industry to exchange bold new ideas about the future of medicine and the role technology will play in improving health. The conference attracts public health officials, venture capitalists, health-care practitioners, researchers, technologists, patients, design experts, and business leaders. Previous Stanford Medicine X conferences have drawn nearly 500 attendees from 30 countries.

In previous years, Stanford Medicine X has attracted some of the biggest names in healthcare IT and as a result, significant media attention. Some of the highlighted media in attendance were: CNN Health, Forbes.com, The Economist, Elsevier Japan, Time Magazine, Fast Company, MedGadget, Popular Science, Bloomberg News, and TechCrunch among others.

About Stanford Medicine X

About Medicine X

Medicine X is a catalyst for new ideas about the future of medicine and health care. The Medicine X initiative is designed to explore the potential of social media and information technology to advance the practice of medicine, improve health, and empower patients to be active participants in their own care. The “X” is meant to evoke a move beyond numbers and trends—it represents the infinite possibilities for current and future information technologies to improve health.

Just some of the speakers and past paid registrants from the Medicine X conference (venture capitalists and experts from industry, education, and government), included:

23andMe, New England Journal of Medicine, MIT Media Laboratory, Rock Health, Imperial College London, New York Times, EDVenture Holdings, AgaMatrix, Stanford University School of Medicine, PeerJ, CNN Health, the Karolinska Institutet, Storify, Massive Health, TechCrunch and Kaiser Permanente.

Areas of Focus

Medicine X Call for Papers

The primary scientific focus of the Medicine X conference will be scientific research studies and scholarly practice-based work in the area of emerging information and social technologies and their effects on the field of medicine. We seek submissions across four tracks:

  • Business: Presentations of interest to the business community as well as presentations of commercial products that may be of interest to the Medicine X community.
  • ePatient: Participatory medicine and the role of technology in empowering patient engagement in their own health care.
  • Practice: Work conducted to address a particular need or purpose that wasn’t formally designed as a research study to evaluate a specific hypothesis.
  • Research: Original work conducted to answer a hypothesis accompanied by relevant data, interpretation of the findings, and synthesis of the results into a set of conclusions.

Official Publishing Partners

Publishing Partners

Stanford has partnered with leading academic journal PLoS ONE to publish papers from our conference. These  journals have a very broad reach and will bring work presented at Medicine X from small niche audiences to the broader scientific and medical establishment.

As the largest scientific journal in the world, PLoS ONE will provide a wide-reaching platform in which to present your work. If invited by to submit a paper, Medicine X will cover the cost of the open access page charges.

We also recognize that visual presentation is an important aspect of research presented for many who work with emerging technologies and medicine. We are therefore excited that JoVE, the only MEDLINE and PubMed-indexed video journal of science, will be publishing video-based multimedia papers presented at the conference.

Highlights from Previous Medicine X Conferences

Below are some of the many speakers and attendees from previous Stanford Medicine X conferences.

Michael Graves

Designer Michael Graves on People First: Redesigning the Hospital Room.

Anne Wojcicki

Anne Wojcicki, CEO and Co-founder or 23andme, speaking on personal genomics and privacy.

Susannah Fox

Susannah Fox, from the Pew Internet & American Life project presenting on self-tracking and skinny jeans.

Attendees

An Intimate Venue: Stanford's intimate and modern venue provides ideal networking opportunities.

Esther Dyson

Angel investor, Esther Dyson discusses unsolved problems and opportunities in healthcare and human behavior.

Britt Johnson

Blogger and ePatient, Britt Johnson talks about blogging and participatory medicine.

Denise Silber

An International Perspective: Denise Silber, organizer of the Doctors 2.0 & You conference, discusses European perspectives on eHealth.

IDEO Design Challenge

IDEO Design Challenge: A day-long workshop where attendees have the opportunity to learn the IDEO design process.

Sonny Vu

Industry Insiders: Sonny Vu, CEO and co-founder of Misfit Wearables, on Wearables: A Coming Revolution?

Comments from Previous Medicine X Conferences

 

"Med X sets a high bar from a content and user experience perspective. The attention to detail is outstanding. The networking opportunities are excellent. The level of patient involvement was outstanding, novel and laudable. On balance, this is one of my favorite conferences of the year, hands down."

 

 

“I got tremendous value out of this conference. I not only plan to attend next year, but encourage more of my colleagues to do so as well.”

 

 

"It was a fantastic conference. So well run. Such attention to detail. I felt really well cared for. It was clear you and your team wanted everyone there to feel special and to be excited.”

 

 

“Oh my goodness - the smartest brainiest people on earth were at MedX!

 

 

Really loved the conference! Felt really taken care of. The IDEO workshop was my absolute favorite thing.  Loved getting to work with other attendees before the main conference -- there was a sense of community and I loved already knowing people going in.”

 

 

“Best conference series I’ve been to. Continue to push the use of social networking, bar codes, innovative name tags, robust websites, multimedia teasers, and the use of twitter to keep participants up-to-date."