Patients and families come to us to receive the best care of their lives.
Health care professionals come to us to do the best work of their careers.
This is Stanford Medicine. This is uniquely Stanford.
We are responsible for some of the most important medical advances of the 20th century, and we continue building on our legacy in the 21st. With a focus on technology balanced by our humanism, we have translated groundbreaking discoveries into novel treatments.
Stanford Medicine is the home of excellence in education, research, and clinical care. This excellence continues to produce innovations that advance human health. It is no surprise that Stanford draws people from around the world. We add value that contributes immeasurably to the health and well-being of our community and helps us realize our vision for a healthier future for everyone.
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Putting a Value Culture into Practice
Our goal at Stanford Health Care is to deliver value by making high-quality, highly personalized, cost-effective care more accessible to more people in more communities.
Defining Value—Our Methodology
Our journey to optimize value depends upon transparency to be effective throughout our system. Transparency begins with a definition of value shared by all members of the Stanford Health Care family.
Measuring Value—Our Accountability
Multiple parties measure the value of the care we provide: patients, employers, and ourselves.
Achieving Value—Improving Access to Quality Care
Throughout Stanford Health Care are numerous signs of the success and dynamism of ourorganization. We are growing and continually improving to serve more members.
Investing in Your Community
At Stanford Health Care we seek to provide patients with the very best in diagnosis and treatment, with outstanding quality, compassion, and coordination.
Increasing Value— Increasing Access and Efficiency
Thanks to the continuing evolution of our organization, Stanford Health Care is in a stronger position to continue to deliver outstanding value by increasing access to our care for more people in more communities.
Big Data: Beyond Promise to Practice
Industry after industry, it is reshaping markets and shaking up competitors. Could it transform not just your health but the health of people everywhere?
Center for Digital Health Connects Faculty with Tech
Launched in 2017, the Stanford Center for Digital Health is enabling collaboration and exploration between Stanford faculty and Silicon Valley technology companies—from startups to large tech players worldwide.
Value Focused
Putting a Value Culture into Practice
Our goal at Stanford Health Care is to deliver value by making high-quality, highly personalized, cost-effective care more accessible to more people in more communities.
Defining Value—Our Methodology
Our journey to optimize value depends upon transparency to be effective throughout our system. Transparency begins with a definition of value shared by all members of the Stanford Health Care family.
Measuring Value—Our Accountability
Multiple parties measure the value of the care we provide: patients, employers, and ourselves.
Achieving Value—Improving Access to Quality Care
Throughout Stanford Health Care are numerous signs of the success and dynamism of ourorganization. We are growing and continually improving to serve more members.
Investing in Your Community
At Stanford Health Care we seek to provide patients with the very best in diagnosis and treatment, with outstanding quality, compassion, and coordination.
Increasing Value— Increasing Access and Efficiency
Thanks to the continuing evolution of our organization, Stanford Health Care is in a stronger position to continue to deliver outstanding value by increasing access to our care for more people in more communities.
Digitally Driven
Big Data: Beyond Promise to Practice
Industry after industry, it is reshaping markets and shaking up competitors. Could it transform not just your health but the health of people everywhere?
Center for Digital Health Connects Faculty with Tech
Launched in 2017, the Stanford Center for Digital Health is enabling collaboration and exploration between Stanford faculty and Silicon Valley technology companies—from startups to large tech players worldwide.
Joining Forces with Technology Icons—for Health and Wellness
Working with Silicon Valley leaders right in our own backyard allows us to jointly tackle some of the biggest challenges in health care. Together, we know that more data can lead to more discoveries that save lives.
Meet Our Stanford Medicine Corporate Partners
What if we could create a state-of-the-art hospital that embodies what health care can and should be in the 21st century? What if we could develop tools that improve the availability and accuracy of medical services?
Biomedical Insights—Putting Data Science to Work for Patients
Data. Information. Computation. At the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, we bring it all together to improve health and wellness through biomedical discovery and clinical care.
The Vision of Large-Scale Computing and Data Analytics— Untangling the Complexity of Health
There’s power and impact in large-scale computing and data analysis. Through the Stanford Biomedical Data Science Initiative, we are delving into every aspect of health and disease, from the molecular mechanics of individual cells to the behavioral dynamics of entire populations.
Advancing Precision Health Takes Real Smarts— Artificially Speaking
Where is the intersection of man and machine—health care and artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and data-driven technologies are becoming part of medicine.
Primary Care 2.0— a Blueprint for the Future
As part of reinventing how health care is delivered and focusing on digitally driven initiatives, a group of physician leaders is rebuilding primary care from the ground up.
Transforming Digital Data and the Search for Resources
Stanford Health Care believes in empowering patients, and the MyHealth app, developed in-house, allows patients to do just that.
Uniquely Stanford
Helping Protect the Health of Humanity
Discovering the next generation of approaches to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Educating the next generation of health care professionals. Delivering the next generation of clinical care to our community today. This is what Stanford Medicine is all about.
Preventing Disease Before It Strikes
Over the past century, the focus in medicine—and, in particular, academic medicine—has been on the diagnosis and treatment of acute diseases. We’ve shined a bright light on treating the most complex conditions that have resulted in many medical advances.
Driving Development of CAR-T and Other New Cancer Treatments
CAR-T therapy is the revolutionary new cancer treatment option that can help people avoid chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
New Hope for Stroke Victims, Thanks to New Imaging Technology
Nearly 750,000 people in the U.S. experience the most common form of stroke every year, an ischemic stroke. The faster normal blood flow in the brain can be restored, the more likely it is that the stroke victim will regain a normal life.
Wellness Takes Center Stage— a Stanford “First”
At a time when physician burnout nationally has reached an all-time high, Stanford Medicine has taken a leadership role in the pioneering wellness field.
Health Hacks with Global Impact—Making Care More Accessible and Affordable
What if there was a low-cost mobile application to automate the diagnosis of cataracts in rural communities—all from a smartphone picture?
Patient Stories
Never take good health for granted. It is a precious commodity. Just ask the patients we treat. They tell the stories about our world-class quality of care, the value we add in our community, and the lives we have touched and saved. They convey hope and healing, and are evidence of our continued commitment to excellence. Raising the bar, building on our strengths-- this is Stanford Health Care. And it's how we will shape the future of precision health. We invite you to discover the very human side of what we do every day for our patients.
We are human-centered and discovery-led.
The Passion of Our People, The Caliber of Our Work
Our brand is our promise. It embodies superior health, leading-edge research, and world-class education.
We treat the most difficult cases imaginable, because our team is comprised of some of the best minds in medicine, committed to excellence in care. And we’re delivering just that. Our awards and industry recognition speak to this passion and our responsibility to contribute to our patient’s health and well-being.
Our Strategic Leadership
The Senior Management and Board of Directors of Stanford Health Care developed our integrated strategic plan and guide its implementation throughout our organization. Their vision, expertise and experience drive our efforts to succeed at being value focused, digitally driven and uniquely Stanford. Effective strategic leadership ensures that all of us at Stanford Health Care understand what success means to us individually, to our entire enterprise and to the communities we have the privilege of serving.