Healthcare company-building profile
CHLA Innovation Studio
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- Not publicly documented
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Yes
- Application status
- Active
Public description
About the program
The CHLA Innovation Studio incubates and accelerates processes and technologies that solve complex problems in pediatric health care, working across four pillars: care model innovation, technology advancement, idea incubation and digital health equity. It uses human-centered design to surface care delivery problems and build solutions, and operates a Digital Health Lab that develops digital therapeutics, clinical education tools and patient and provider experience technology. Programs include Connected Care telehealth and online second opinions, a mental well-being initiative for teens, and patient-centered diabetes care redesign. Outside companies engage principally through KidsX.Health, the CHLA-founded consortium and accelerator that pairs digital health startups with pediatric hospitals, and through the West Coast Consortium for Technology and Innovation in Pediatrics. The studio serves CHLA clinicians and staff as well as external startups and partner children's hospitals.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Omkar P. Kulkarni, MPH — Chief Innovation Officer, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- Founded and administers KidsX.Health, an international pediatric consortium that runs an annual digital health accelerator (CHLA Innovation Studio page); Partner in the West Coast Consortium for Technology and Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP), established in 2011 by USC and CHLA to support pediatric medical device development (CHLA Innovation Studio page); CHLA named Omkar P. Kulkarni its first-ever Chief Innovation Officer effective May 7, 2018 (CHLA press release, April 30, 2018)
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