Creating a Healthier Future with Healthsocal.ai
Utilizing AI to build a healthier future for all of Southern California.
healthsocal.ai is designed to establish SoCal as an AI Global SuperHub that advances the understanding and applicability of AI healthcare and positively impacts societal, environmental, and global issues while creating a positive economic impact for Southern California.
Why healthsocal.ai now? The U.S. spends nearly 2x the average of OECD countries, yet has the lowest life expectancy, the highest chronic illness burden, an obesity rate 2x OECD countries, and the highest suicide rates.
Yet, we also have the world’s most robust AI technology, we are capable of creating vaccines in 18 months and deploying remote robotics to perform laser-precision surgery.
Our Vision for the Future
Better Population Health
Leverage AI to create a healthier future and eventually the healthiest population in the United States (within a generation)
Utilize Healthcare Infrastructure
Leverage AI across the healthcare industry in the post-pandemic era.
Improve Overall Health & Wellness
Enhance wellness, mental health and traditional medical device, biotech, and pharma with existing AI tech.
Healthcare Equity
Access equitable high-quality healthcare by improving the allocation of appropriate resources and measuring outcomes of health interventions.
Data-Driven Decision Making
Collect and manage data for health interventions and improved outcomes
Integrative Health
Achieve Integrative Health by promoting the balance of holistic, preventative, & patient-centered care by balancing
conventional, complementary, & self-care.
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Strategic Outcomes

Health AI Innovation
Healthcare AI solutions and innovation in the areas of social equity, integrative health, precision medicine, and population health

Community Collaboration
Deliver rapid outcomes and successes through sharable community resources, data, techniques and insights.

Economic Impact
Create, retain, and attract more Healthcare AI companies and talent through Octane’s LaunchPad.
How healthsocal.ai will achieve our goals
By addressing healthcare with a whole-person approach, healthsocal.ai will use existing infrastructure to convene and engage community and partners and build, retain, and attract healthcare AI companies and jobs.
The focus will be on:
✅ Balancing health inequities
✅ Achieving precision medicine
✅ Improving population health
✅ Supporting integrative health
Our Leadership

Bill Carpou
CEO, Octane
Chaiman,healthsocal.ai

Zeeshan Subzwari
Managing Director,
healthsocal.ai

Anthony Chang, MD, MBA
Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer, CHOC

Fauad Hasan
Founder & Director, Appiell.ai

Chris Huff
Chief Growth Officer, Kofax

Jennifer McCaney
UCLA Biodesign & Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Neil Sahota
IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) Al Advisor

Todd Terrazas
AI LA Founder
