Issue link: https://tmcpulse.uberflip.com/i/699873
t m c » p u l s e | j u ly 2 0 1 6 5 Home is Where the Health is AT&T Foundry's new space on the Texas Medical Center campus will chart a patient's journey from hospital to home W hen patients are in the hospital connected to various monitors, they are constantly being evaluated by nurses and physicians. Now imagine having that same kind of monitoring, but in your own home. That's the goal of AT&T's Connected Health Foundry, which opened its doors June 7 in the TMC Innovation Institute. A tour around the space simu- lates three separate environments: a hospital room, a nurses' station and a home living space. Researchers using the space will be able to test dif- ferent methods of connecting a "smart" hospital with care at home so patients get out of the hospital sooner and back into their homes with caregivers. "I can't think of a better place to be in the van- guard of this innovation around digital health than to have a partnership with AT&T and to have, as the alpha testing ground, the Texas Medical Center," said Robert C. Robbins, M.D., president and CEO of the Texas Medical Center. "The future is really moving fast, being transformed, and digital health is going to be the future of health. We are in the center of what is starting here and rapidly progressing." Craig Lee, who has been the Internet of Things AT&T Foundry director in Plano, Texas, for three years, will also lead the AT&T Foundry in Houston, but locally, it will be staffed by three people, including Nadia Morris, head of innovation, who will manage projects, and two biomedical engineers—one with hardware experience and one on the software end. Combined with the six engineers in Plano, Lee sees both Foundries as one cohesive team. B y C h r i s t i n e H a l l The aim for the AT&T Foundry for Connected Health is to be a space of collaboration and problem solving, where the company can help transform health care by con- necting the digital ecosystem. — CHRIS PENROSE Senior Vice President of IoT Solutions for AT&T Clockwise from left: Chris Penrose, senior vice president of IoT Solutions for AT&T; Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner; Nadia Morris, head of innovation at the AT&T Foundry for Connected Health; and a fireside chat between Craig Lee, director of the AT&T Foundry for Connected Health; Ralph de la Vega, vice chairman of AT&T Inc. and CEO of AT&T Business Solutions and AT&T International LLC; and Robert C. Robbins, M.D., president and CEO of the Texas Medical Center.