Blog Posts

For patients: questions to ask (and how HealthScout helps)

August 31, 2025 John Emmett Worth

Emmett is a clinical research coordinator at Stanford who helps build and test HealthScout.

During my onboarding as a clinical research coordinator, I was struck by the breadth of coordination that goes into even a single blood collection. Each task—from processing a kit to logging data—represents the combined efforts …

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More cancer types, precise mutation matching

August 8, 2025 Michael Gensheimer

I'm excited to share three updates to HealthScout that will help more patients find clinical trials that may be right for them.

Expanding Beyond Lung Cancer to Breast and Colon Cancer

We launched HealthScout for clinical trials for non-small cell lung cancer. Today, we’re expanding to include advanced/metastatic …

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Why HealthScout

April 27, 2025 Michael Gensheimer

The Beginning

The idea for HealthScout started when I was seeing a patient with an uncommon kind of cancer in my radiation oncology clinic. Their cancer had spread throughout the body and was growing despite drug treatments. Their medical oncologist had told them they did not know of any …

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