Our Home for Digital Health Innovation
About Ocean Labs
Building the future of an open, AI-ready health platform
Labs gives promising ideas space to move quickly, separate from Ocean’s core product environment. It is where we explore new approaches to healthcare workflows, responsible AI, automation, interoperability, and community-built innovation. Each project helps us learn what has real potential, and what should be shared with the open-source community, scaled through partners, rebuilt for future product consideration, or retired.
AI is part of this work, but not for its own sake. Ocean Labs focuses on practical, clinician-led uses of technology that can reduce administrative burden, improve routing and coordination, support better decisions, and help care teams spend more time with patients.
From automated referral routing to bulk clinic broadcasts, explore the problems Ocean Labs is solving.
Leading by Example Dr. Doug Kavanagh
Ocean Labs is spearheaded by Dr. Doug Kavanagh, Executive Director of Ocean Labs and Medical Director at OceanMD. Learn why Doug believes a dedicated innovation space is essential to exploring what comes next in digital health.
Impact: Why Ocean Labs?
Preparing Ocean for what healthcare needs next
Healthcare innovation cannot happen safely in a vacuum. New technologies need trusted infrastructure, clear governance, interoperability, clinical oversight, and a practical path from experimentation to real-world use.
Ocean Labs helps Ocean prepare for that future.
- For care teams, Labs explores tools that can reduce repetitive work, improve workflow responsiveness, and support better decisions.
- For health systems and governments, Labs creates a safer way to evaluate emerging technologies before broad deployment.
- For partners and developers, Labs supports a more open ecosystem through standards, APIs, reference implementations, and community assets.
- For patients, the goal is simpler pathways, fewer delays, and more responsive care.
Most importantly, Labs helps Ocean remain what healthcare needs it to be: a trusted platform where innovation can happen responsibly.
Core Innovation Principles
Care Comes First
Every Labs project starts with a practical problem in healthcare delivery. The goal is not to add more technology, but to make care easier to access, coordinate, and deliver.
AI-Ready by Design
AI can only be useful in healthcare when it can connect safely to real workflows. Ocean Labs supports open standards, APIs, reference implementations, and community collaboration so new technologies can build on trusted infrastructure instead of creating new silos.
Built to Learn
Some ideas become products. Some become open-source tools. Some are retired. Ocean Labs is designed to create evidence about what works, what does not, and what should come next.
Work with Ocean Labs
Ocean Labs is built for collaboration. We work with clinicians, healthcare organizations, governments, developers, and partners who want to explore practical innovation on top of trusted digital health infrastructure.
Whether you are interested in responsible AI, open-source collaboration, workflow automation, interoperability, or new ways to extend the Ocean platform, we would like to hear from you.
