Healthcare company-building profile
innovationOchsner (iO)
Ochsner Health
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- Ochsner Health
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Company stage served
- Research or idea stage
- 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
- Founded
- 2015
Public description
About the program
innovationOchsner, founded by Ochsner Health in 2015, describes itself as a think tank, innovation lab, and health care technology company operating inside Louisiana's largest health system. Its stated aims are better population health, an enhanced patient experience, improved care-team well-being, and lower cost of care, pursued through digital health, advanced analytics, personalized medicine, predictive modeling, and data-enabled care. Named programs include Connected MOM (remote maternal monitoring), Optimal Hospital, Population Genomic Screening, Anatomical Modeling for surgical planning, Predictive Modeling, Clinical Trial Innovation, and the O Bar, a retail-style space where patients get help selecting and setting up health apps and devices. iO builds and pilots solutions internally using Ochsner's own care settings as the test bed, then publishes peer-reviewed outcomes research on them. It engages outside companies through strategic technology partnerships rather than an equity fund, working with organizations including Apple, Microsoft, Epic, and Hims.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Denise Basow, MD — Chief Digital Officer, Ochsner Health (Jason Hill, MD serves as Innovation Officer)
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- Microsoft Health Innovation Award (2018); HIMSS Davies Enterprise Award; Health Acceleration Challenge recognition; published peer-reviewed results showing improved hypertension control, improved Type 2 diabetes management via telemonitoring, reduced antibiotic prescribing, and decreased hospital complications from its digital medicine programs; named technology collaborations with Apple, Microsoft, Epic and Hims. No licensing revenue, spinout, or exit figures are publicly disclosed.; Founded in 2015 as Ochsner Health's innovation lab; named partnerships with Apple, Microsoft, Epic and Hims; joint program with Evidation Health to measure digital health outcomes in clinical studies; collaboration with Pfizer described as building a digital superhighway for clinical trials; dedicated workstreams in AI and predictive modeling and clinical trial innovation
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