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
Events Search and Views Navigation
June 2023
Ophthalmology Tech Forum 2023
Join industry physicians and top ophthalmologists who are defining the future of the field at Octane’s Ophthalmology Technology Forum (OTF). The event is held annually in Orange County, the center for Ophthalmology in the US. We will be hosting Ophthalmology Tech Forum 2023 as a hybrid experience, which will allow our guests to attend in person or online. Learn more Register here
Find out more »July 2023
Women Leaders of Octane – July 2023 Quarterly Meeting
Register Here >> Please join Women Leaders of Octane for our virtual quarterly meeting, Wednesday, July 19th from 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST, featuring Thought Leader: Cynthia West, Ph.D. In addition to our thought leader, our committee chairs will share progress reports. Our Committees and Committee Chairs: Creating Women-led Businesses & LaunchPad Committee – Marinela Gombosev, SPARK Neuro Funding Committee – Delilah Panio, Toronto Stock Exchange Women on Boards Committee – Joyce Averna, JP Morgan Private Bank Resources & Communications – Nanneke Dinklo Plus, after…
Find out more »September 2023
Cardiovascular Tech Summit 2023
Octane’s Cardiovascular Tech Summit 2023 will synergize innovative solutions in cardiology with physicians, industry strategics, and investors convening together to advance patient care. The Summit will explore the unmet needs in cardiology, highlight current buying trends of strategics and investors, review current funding models of cardiology innovation, present innovation trends, and showcase top emerging cardiology companies to our ecosystem of strategics and investors.
Find out more »High Tech Awards 2023
The much-anticipated High Tech Awards celebrate the top innovators, entrepreneurs, and technology leaders in Orange County. Join us for the 2023 High Tech Awards to celebrate and recognize those individuals and companies who make Orange County a center of technology and medical technology innovation.
Find out more »October 2023
Octane’s Medical Innovation Forum 2023
Octane will host our Medical Innovation Forum 2023 as an in-person experience. Join us in collaborating with industry experts, strategics, physicians, entrepreneurs, and investors who have made significant strides toward an accelerated future in the medical industry. The Forum will highlight the wide-ranging impact of the most recent medical innovations and how the industry will adapt to enhance patient care.
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