These profiles are based in California according to official program or system locations. A health system may also operate facilities in other states. Inclusion is not an endorsement.
Los Angeles, California
Geri and Richard Brawerman Nursing Institute - Nursing Research and Innovation
The Geri and Richard Brawerman Nursing Institute is Cedars-Sinai's home for nursing research, education and innovation, reflecting a renewed institutional focus on nurse-generated science and practice change.
Nonprofit
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Los Angeles, California
Cedars-Sinai Technology Ventures
Cedars-Sinai Technology Ventures is the health system's publicly described home for intellectual property, venture investment, and startup acceleration.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Los Angeles, California
CHLA Innovation Studio
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.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Los Angeles, California
KidsX Accelerator
KidsX is a pediatric digital health accelerator and hospital consortium founded and administered by Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Los Angeles, California
West Coast Consortium for Technology and Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP)
CTIP is an FDA-funded pediatric device consortium led by Children's Hospital Los Angeles that accelerates the development and commercialization of pediatric medical devices from concept to market.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Orange, California
Sharon Disney Lund Medical Intelligence, Information, Investigation and Innovation Institute (Mi4)
Mi4 is CHOC's institute-level innovation hub, created to accelerate innovation and insight that advances children's health through new diagnostic, treatment and care solutions.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Duarte, California
Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
City of Hope's Office of Technology Licensing works with City of Hope inventors to identify, protect and commercialize their inventions and technologies.
Nonprofit
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Emeryville, California
Inflect Capital
Inflect Capital is the venture-investment offering of Inflect, a healthcare innovation platform backed by the physician-owned and physician-led partnership Vituity.
For profit · National
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Oakland, California
Care Management Institute
The Care Management Institute is Kaiser Permanente's clinical knowledge and care-redesign body, established in 1997 and co-sponsored by the Permanente Medical Groups and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan.
Nonprofit
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San Leandro, California
Sidney R. Garfield Center for Health Care Innovation (Garfield Innovation Center)
The Garfield Innovation Center is Kaiser Permanente's simulated care delivery environment, where clinicians, designers and technologists prototype, test and refine both high-tech and low-tech care improvements before they are deployed across the system.
Nonprofit
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Oakland, California
Kaiser Permanente Ventures
Kaiser Permanente Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Kaiser Permanente.
Nonprofit · National
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Los Angeles, California
USC Stevens Center for Innovation
The USC Stevens Center for Innovation is the University of Southern California's technology licensing office, serving inventors across the university including the Keck School of Medicine and Keck Medicine of USC clinical enterprise.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Long Beach, California
MemorialCare Innovation Fund
The MemorialCare Innovation Fund is the strategic venture capital arm of MemorialCare Health System, a roughly $2 billion revenue Southern California nonprofit system.
Nonprofit
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La Jolla, California
Scripps Research Translational Institute
The Scripps Research Translational Institute, founded in 2007 as the Scripps Translational Science Institute, works to individualize healthcare by combining human genomics with digital technologies and artificial intelligence.
Nonprofit
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San Diego, California
Sharp Prebys Innovation and Education Center
The Sharp Prebys Innovation and Education Center is a 70,000-square-foot, four-story facility at Sharp HealthCare's Kearny Mesa headquarters campus built to advance research, training, workforce development, innovation, education and technology across the system.
Nonprofit
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Stanford, California
Innovation and Design Advanced Mentorship, Department of Emergency Medicine
Stanford Emergency Medicine's Innovation and Design Advanced Mentorship trains board-eligible or board-certified emergency physicians across three pillars: biodesign, design thinking and digital health.
Nonprofit
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Stanford, California
Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign
Stanford Medicine's Mussallem Center for Biodesign is a named health-technology innovation center with programs that teach a need-driven process for identifying health needs, inventing technologies, and moving solutions toward patient care.
Academic
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Stanford, California
Stanford Medicine Catalyst
Stanford Medicine Catalyst is a joint strategic effort of the Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care and Stanford Medicine Children's Health that acts as the institutional hub for Stanford health care innovations.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Stanford, California
Biodesign Innovation Fellowship, Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign
The Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign (formerly the Byers Center for Biodesign) runs the field-defining Biodesign Innovation Fellowship, a nearly year-long, full-time, multidisciplinary program in which physicians, engineers, designers and business people work in teams on health-technology projects.
Nonprofit
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San Francisco, California
Sutter Health Innovation Center
The Sutter Health Innovation Center is a hub where technology partners, leaders, clinicians and employees collaborate on new care models and digital health products.
Nonprofit
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Sacramento, California
UC Davis Health Cloud Innovation Center
The UC Davis Health Cloud Innovation Center is a joint effort between UC Davis Health and Amazon Web Services, and was the first AWS Cloud Innovation Center established at an academic medical center.
Nonprofit
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Sacramento, California
UC Davis Health Ventures
UC Davis Health Ventures is the commercialization and venture office for UC Davis Health, created to translate human health research into commercial practice and to build an innovation and entrepreneurship culture across the health system.
Nonprofit
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Irvine, California
UCI Beall Applied Innovation
UCI Beall Applied Innovation is the University of California, Irvine's campus-wide innovation and commercialization hub, serving faculty, clinicians and student innovators across UCI including UCI Health and the School of Medicine.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Los Angeles, California
UCLA Technology Development Group (TDG)
UCLA Technology Development Group is the campus-wide gateway to innovation, research and entrepreneurship at UCLA, including technologies from the David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health.
Nonprofit
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Los Angeles, California
UCLA Health Innovation Challenge
The UCLA Health Innovation Challenge is an annual competition run by the UCLA Health Office of Innovation that invites faculty, staff, trainees, students, patients, caregivers, volunteers and community members to submit ideas that advance care delivery and health equity.
Nonprofit
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Los Angeles, California
UCLA Biodesign Innovation Fellowship
UCLA Biodesign is an early-stage health technology innovation program that runs a year-long, full-time fellowship for interdisciplinary teams drawn from medicine, engineering, design and business.
Academic · Nonprofit
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San Francisco, California
Acute Care Innovation Center and EM Innovation Fellowship
The Acute Care Innovation Center in UCSF's Department of Emergency Medicine develops, tests and scales acute care innovations across what it calls an acute care test bed made up of three distinct emergency departments.
Nonprofit
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San Francisco, California
Biodevice Innovation Pathway (UCSF Surgical Innovations)
The Biodevice Innovation Pathway is a dedicated research track within UCSF Surgical Innovations for surgery residents who want to build medical technology.
Nonprofit
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San Francisco, California
Center for Nursing Excellence & Innovation (CNEI)
The Center for Nursing Excellence & Innovation is the UCSF Health Department of Nursing's hub for professional nursing practice, education, leadership and innovation.
Nonprofit
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San Francisco, California
UCSF Innovation Ventures HealthTech Commercialization
UCSF Innovation Ventures publishes a HealthTech Commercialization function for translating discoveries from UCSF clinicians and researchers into products and services.
Academic
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San Francisco, California
UCSF Rosenman Institute
The UCSF Rosenman Institute supports healthtech entrepreneurs, including UCSF clinicians, in moving medical device and digital health concepts toward commercialization.
Academic · Nonprofit
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La Jolla, California
Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC)
The UC San Diego Office of Innovation and Commercialization supports commercialization of discoveries from across the campus, including UC San Diego Health and the School of Medicine.
Academic · Nonprofit
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