Our projects span education, clinical informatics, and mobile computing in medicine. No matter what we do, we aim to innovate user-centered solutions to healthcare IT. Our work has been honored by funding and awards from the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality, IARS, Society for Technology in Anesthesia, and Medicine 2.0 among others.
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.Dieter Rams
Don't design for everyone. It's impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy.Leisa Reichelt
Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.Salvador Dali
Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.Pablo Picasso
We're physicians. We are passionate about medicine at the intersection of emerging health information technologies. We seek to create IT solutions to improve medical education, healthcare practice, and the engagement of patients in their own care.
Medicine X is a catalyst for new ideas about the future of medicine and health care. The initiative explores how emerging technologies will advance the practice of medicine, improve health, and empower patients to be …
We are interested in how the design of medical information influences the way people use medical checklists in patient care. We believe that design matters. We believe that good design can improve adoption and use of …
This week, the Stanford Anesthesia Informatics and Media Lab (AIM) released a new iPad application as part of the Stanford Medicine 25 initiative, a series of hands-on workshops teaching 25 essential techniques for examining patients.
Healthcare professionals are required to handle medical emergencies and crises. Yet, many of these healthcare providers are not always knowledgeable about teamwork and evidence-based techniques for managing a medical crisis. This web- and tablet-based course …
Stanford StanMed is an iPad app designed to be used by Stanford medical students, residents, fellows and faculty. We intend StanMed to be used in the classroom and at the bedside. Stanford StanMed will provide …
The ACGME has recommended that anesthesia residency programs integrate the internship year with the 3-year anesthesia training period. Because not all of our Stanford Anesthesia interns participate in an integrated clinical base …
The Stanford AIM lab seeks to produce generalizable new knowledge about how best to use health information technologies to improve medical education, clinical care and research. You can find a list of our recent publications …
STARTprep is an extension of the AIM Lab’s successful START program. START – Successful Transition to Anesthesia Residency Training, is a year-long program during internship designed to help incoming residents feel more prepared to begin …
Anesthesia Illustrated was conceived as a global open access initiative to disseminate high quality educational content and learning objects to anesthesia educators around the world. Our focus is on high-quality multimedia-based visual educational content. Our …
The Stanford AIM Lab offers one of the few anesthesia informatics programs in the country and provides a flexible path to train physicians to lead healthcare innovation.
The AIM lab consists of a multidisciplinary group of individuals that bring unique talents and skills to our projects. This group of diverse individuals are crucial to the success of our projects.
Director, AIM Lab
Larry Chu is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia on the faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Chu studies how information technologies can be used to improve medical education and collaborates with researchers in simulation and computer science at Stanford to study how cognitive aids can improve health care outcomes. He is the Executive Director of Stanford Medicine X.
Core Faculty, Simulation
Dr. Kyle Harrison is a founding core faculty member of the AIM lab. A Clinical Assistant Professor at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospital, Dr. Harrison is a graduate of Stanford’s simulation program. He is an Associate Program Director of Stanford’s anesthesia residency program and specializes in ACLS, emergency medical checklists, and the use of educational technologies in medicine.
Core Faculty, Informatics
Dr. Bassam Kadry is a core faculty member in the AIM lab. A Clinical Instructor at Stanford, Dr. Kadry is a member of Stanford Anesthesia’s Epic transition team. His interest in informatics centers on the use of user-obvious tools to empower users to gain insight from real-time analytics of clinical data streams to improve healthcare practice and quality.
Core Faculty, Perioperative Management
Associated Faculty, Epic Transition
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Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.Dieter Rams
Don't design for everyone. It's impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy.Leisa Reichelt
Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.Salvador Dali
Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.Pablo Picasso
Stanford AIM Lab launches patient exam iPad app
This week, the Stanford Anesthesia Informatics and Media Lab (AIM) released a new iPad application as part of the Stanford Medicine 25 initiative, a series of hands-on workshops teaching 25 …
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On Tuesday the Stanford Anesthesia Informatics and Media Lab (AIM) released a new iPad application designed to be used as an educational tool in the critical care student clerkship …
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New online learning approach prepares doctors for Stanford residencies
by Tracie White
At first you just see the medical resident’s hands on the video screen and hear him muttering to himself.
“Syringe…,” he says under his breath, as …
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