About
About Spezi
Spezi, the flagship project of Stanford Biodesign Digital Health, is an open-source framework for building modern, interoperable digital health applications using an ecosystem of modules built upon international healthcare data standards.
The Spezi framework is the next generation of CardinalKit, a framework initially created at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign in 2020 to accelerate the development of digital health applications for clinical and research projects. Spezi was re-built from the ground up as a modular system with plug-and-play components that cover the most common functionality needed for a modern, scalable digital health solution. Spezi incorporates healthcare data standards such as HL7 FHIR at the core for interoperability with electronic health record systems.
Since 2023, the Spezi framework has been used by students in Stanford Biodesign's Building for Digital Health class to create real-world projects with researchers across multiple institutions and industry partners including Stanford University, the University of Utah, Charité Berlin, Technical University of Munich, and Regeneron. Spezi has also been used to create several other clinical and research projects, including QDG, ENGAGE-HF, HealthGPT, and LLMonFHIR. See our Projects page for more examples.
We are always expanding the project. The Spezi Project Board provides a great overview of the current efforts and next steps. We encourage contributions in the focus areas and issues tagged as "good first issues".
Student Research Opportunities
Spezi Core Team
Spezi is an open-source project with numerous contributors. You can find a list of contributors in each Spezi repository. The core team steers these efforts and governs the open-source project. The core team consists of:
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