"Stanford University has always been a nexus of innovation and has always been good at bridging the gap between academia and emerging technology," said Medicine X Organizing Chairman, Dr. Larry Chu. "Now we are applying this to healthcare."
The conference, which Dr. Chu said is an extension of the work Stanford started when it hosted Medicine 2.0 in Sept. 2011, will examine how social media, information technology, emerging and mobile technologies can be used to manage health and improve healthcare.
JoVE will help the already wide-reaching conference (last year there were attendees from 20 countries and six conferences) become even more international.
"One of the challenges we have is disseminating the information from the conference, given our outdated publication methodologies," said Dr. Chu. Many of the speakers will be presenting their research visually, so Dr. Chu turned to JoVE, an expert in distributing peer-reviewed research in visual format.
Both the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and Social Media Working Group (SMWG) will peer review all of the research-based submissions to Medicine X. Selected submissions will undergo an additional editorial review and be published in JoVE.
Abstracts for the conference will be accepted from Jan. 15 to April 15 through the Stanford Medicine X website.
