Charlotte Piper with Ochsner Health

Charlotte Piper, Assistant Vice President of Ochsner Ventures, joins Panda Perspectives to explore how Ochsner Health is leveraging innovation, strategic investment, and deep collaboration to drive real change in healthcare. With a mission to create new value—financial and operational—for the health system, Charlotte shares how her team works across partnerships, internal ventures, and digital transformation initiatives to tackle some of the industry’s most complex challenges. Charlotte discusses Ochsner’s latest strategic plan, highlighting core priorities such as workforce experience, value-based care, digital enablement, and health equity. She emphasizes the growing importance of partnerships—both with peer health systems and early-stage companies—and the shift toward co-developing solutions rather than simply buying them.

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