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How CHLA Innovates Pediatric Healthcare: KidsX and Digital Health Lab

Featuring Omkar Kulkarni,
Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer & Chief Digital Officer, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

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In this thought-provoking episode, we sit down with Omkar Kulkarni, Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer, and Chief Digital Officer at CHLA.

We delve into the challenges faced in pediatric healthcare innovation and how to address them effectively, the importance of prioritizing practical impact, and finding solutions that improve the patient journey as they are doing in their recent projects, KidsX and Digital Health Lab. Explore the potential of staff optimization and automation in healthcare, and soak in valuable advice all healthcare executives should consider. Looking toward the future, this conversation unveils exciting possibilities for pediatric healthcare and the role of innovation in providing value-oriented care.

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About the host

Liat Kozuch

Podcast Host at Hyro

Part production junkie, part people lover, Liat's passionate about making genuine connections and amplifying peoples’ life stories. With exposure to Hyro’s champions at leading health systems, she started Patient Journey Pioneers to expose strategies from healthcare’s most influential digital leaders and C-suite executives, who share insights that are inspiring the industry to move further and faster than ever. Join the journey as Liat continues to seek the next-best-disruptor in healthcare.

About the speaker

Omkar Kulkarni

Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer & Chief Digital Officer, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Omkar Kulkarni is Vice President and Chief Transformation and Digital Officer at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, which also established a new Office of Transformation. Mr. Kulkarni was previously the hospital's chief innovation officer and chief digital transformation officer, having joined CHLA in 2018 from Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai. At CHLA, he helped oversee the enterprise wide telehealth rollout in 2020 and launch several digital initiatives. In his role, Omkar leads digital and operational transformation aiming to improve efficiency, patient access, employee engagement and the patient-family experience. The new transformation office will combine several CHLA teams: digital transformation, virtual care, operational transformation, KidsX, the CHLA Innovation Studio, and the FDA-funded Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics. Mr. Kulkarni already headed KidsX, an accelerator that has brought together more than 30 children's hospitals to develop 52 pediatric digital health startups.

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