Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is partnering with venture-builder Redesign Health to launch a new platform aimed at building and scaling companies that solve critical healthcare challenges.
The Digital Innovation Platform will leverage Cedars-Sinai’s clinical expertise, research capabilities and data resources to develop companies focused on addressing issues such as workforce shortages, rising costs, inefficiencies and the complexity of patient care, according to a May 7 news release.
The platform will function as a structured innovation and entrepreneurship hub within Cedars-Sinai. It will source talent from outside the organization — including engineers, data scientists and healthcare strategists — to collaborate with internal clinical experts on scalable digital health solutions. Areas of focus include personalized medicine, specialty care access, hospital workflow optimization, clinical decision support and care coordination.
As part of the initiative, Cedars-Sinai clinicians and staff will be invited to participate in an internal entrepreneurship program designed to identify clinical pain points that can be addressed through digital innovation. The resulting startups will be led by experienced founders who will work closely with Cedars-Sinai and use its clinical environments to validate their solutions.
Founders will also have access to a secure, synthetic-data platform developed by Cedars-Sinai. The tool mimics real-world health data and will support the development and testing of AI-driven solutions throughout the startup lifecycle.
Redesign Health — which has launched more than 60 healthcare companies since its founding — will contribute its venture-building framework to the partnership. The goal is to establish a self-sustaining digital health ecosystem centered in Los Angeles.