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Quality of life. Seamless digital solutions.

Connected Health's umbrella of services brings Ochsner's service and tech into your home, helping you live a better, healthier life. Start your journey.

About Connected Health:
Better health for the way we live now.

Intuitive Tech

Connected Health weaves better health into your life seamlessly with smart, intuitive tech, putting wellness within easy reach.

Backed by Ochsner's Mission

Ochsner is working every day to "Inspire Healthier Lives and Stronger Communities." Connected Health is a product of that promise.

A Program for Everyone

With four unique programs, there's a benefit for everyone. Find your perfect program today.

Keeping Your Family Safe & Healthy

Thanks to advances in virtual healthcare technology, you can help your loved ones stay safe and healthy, even when you aren't physically there.

Deepening a connection forged over decades.

From its earliest days, Ochsner has been connected to wellness, not just curing the sick. Now, we are deepening that connection.

As our tagline says, we are always innovating healthcare. So it only makes sense that Ochsner would pioneer the next chapter in virtual care. With Connected Health, we are fostering well-being in new, exciting, and profound ways.

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What our patients are saying about the connected health suite of services

My care team has been really helpful. They’ve explained things to me. They’ve offered me suggestions. I really like the fact of daily accountability. I’ve lost about 103 pounds. I feel better. I have energy that I didn’t have a year ago. Ochsner Digital Medicine to me a lifesaver. It’s given me a new lease on life. It’s given me the opportunity to go and enjoy life better.

Kathy West
Digital Medicine Member

I can keep my blood pressure under control by using this program. It’s changed my life. I never thought I’d even need it… but now that I have it, I’m so glad that they’ve been there with me every step of the way.

Naomi Chatterton
Digital Medicine Member

The program has really helped me focus more on my health. I feel totally different now.

Lance Daniels
Digital Medicine Member

The Ochsner Digital Medicine Care Team helped me by guiding me in every way possible – giving me tips on my diet and adjusting my medication on the fly. They are a good support team.

Roel Mercado
Digital Medicine Member

I love the Ochsner Digital Medicine program. As a physician, I love having the Digital Medicine team helping me because it’s like having other coaches on the team. Digital Medicine does empower patients to be more active in their care.

Dr. Victoria Smith
Physician

That’s what this program does. It frees you up to actually have a life. It gives you your life back.

Brenda O'Keefe
Digital Medicine Member

I feel like this is more normal. Someone’s got my back and…I will be able to use [the program] for the rest of my life.

Kay King
Digital Medicine Member

Ochsner was really ahead of its time in developing tools to remotely monitor patients with chronic diseases so that they stay more connected to the health system and achieve better outcomes...We’ve employed these tools with patients in all different demographics. We’ve been able to improve on the management of diseases like diabetes and hypertension, even in patients who could never achieve control prior to beginning those programs.

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Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer, Ochsner Health

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Ochsner Through the Years

1941
Establishing the Ochsner Clinic

Local medical school professors Drs. Alton Ochsner, Edgar Burns, Guy A. Caldwell, Francis E. LeJeune, and Curtis Tyrone each contributed their own money to open the first private group practice clinic in New Orleans, similar to the models of the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic.

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1952
Ground Breaks on New Hospital

In 1952, construction began on the new Ochsner Foundation Hospital.

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1970
Ochsner Performs First Heart Transplant in Region

Dr. John Ochsner performed the first heart transplant in the Gulf South region.

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1977
Ochsner’s Graduate Medical Education Programs Develop Affiliations

Leonard J. Chabert Hospital opened in Houma, Louisiana, as part of Louisiana’s charity hospital system. Under Dr. Frank Riddick’s leadership, Ochsner’s graduate medical education programs developed a strong affiliation with Chabert. This facility gave the residents learning opportunities to care for patients within the charity system.

With guidance and oversight from the Ochsner Clinic, South Louisiana Medical Associates was developed as a group practice that contracted with the State of Louisiana to provide senior staff supervision of hospital activities, patient care and medical education.

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1999-2001
Ochsner Clinic and Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation Unify

Dr. Frank A. Riddick, CEO of the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, and Dr. Patrick Quinlan, CEO of Ochsner Clinic, dedicated two years of tireless work to negotiation between the parties.

On August 31, 2001, the clinic and the foundation agreed to consolidate into a single organization, the not-for-profit Ochsner Clinic Foundation, later designated the Ochsner Health System, with Dr. Patrick Quinlan as chief executive officer and a unified board from the predecessor organizations.

The unified organization with a single decision-making body and single management structure was considered essential to function and succeed in a changing medical and economic environment by eliminating duplicative and sometimes competing management, governing, and operating structures.

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2009
Ochsner Brings Telehealth Services to Areas Across LA and MS

In 2009, Ochsner began utilizing a telestroke service to improve stroke care in rural and urban areas throughout Louisiana. Since then, Ochsner’s telemedicine program, CareConnect 360, has partnered with 41 facilities across Louisiana and Mississippi, impacting over 550,000 patients, and has now expanded its services to 32 specialties, including cardiology, pediatrics, psychiatry and maternal-fetal medicine.

In 2015, Ochsner completed over 135,000 telemedicine consults with other hospitals, providing stroke care, cardiac care, high-risk women's services and advanced interpretation services, among other capabilities that other hospitals may not have locally.

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2020
Vision for a Healthy State

Ochsner Health welcomed 2020 with a name change and a bold new 10-year vision and commitment to creating a Healthy State. Together with state leaders, community partners, insurers, schools, employers, and others, we are placing a direct focus on the health and wellness of the whole person and addressing the most critical health needs in our Louisiana and Mississippi communities.

In 2020, we announced a $100 million investment to address health inequities and expand Louisiana’s healthcare workforce and community-based health services.

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Denise Basow, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer, Ochsner Health

Ochsner was really ahead of its time in developing tools to remotely monitor patients with chronic diseases so that they stay more connected to the health system and achieve better outcomes...We’ve employed these tools with patients in all different demographics. We’ve been able to improve on the management of diseases like diabetes and hypertension, even in patients who could never achieve control prior to beginning those programs.

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