Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast. I'm Evan Swardstraver. On today's show, telemedicine and telehealth, the internet has disrupted our lives in many ways. It's revolutionized the way we communicate. It's given us access to more information than ever before. But as we discussed at a recent panel at the Internet Governance Forum, has it disrupted areas like education or for the purposes of today's show

healthcare? Have most Americans or most people around the world really seen a change in the way

that they get care or the way that services are delivered due to the Internet? Or is it

still very early stages? And have we not really seen a disruption there yet?

Well, my next guest might have something to say about that.

I'm joined by Nadia Morris, director at the AT&T Connected Health Foundry in Houston, Texas.

Nadia, thanks for joining the show.

Thanks for having me.

So before we jump in, I have to ask, since you are from Houston and you're here in D.C.

Nice enough to join, since you are from Houston and you're here in D.C. nice enough to join. How is everything?

Is you and your family okay and is the Foundry okay? My family and everybody on my team was

luckily spared from the bulk of the flooding and worse stuff that happen in Houston.

You know, our new tagline is Houston Strong.

So we're recovering.

The foundry, we got a little damage, but not too much.

All right.

Well, that's good to hear because I'm going to ask what's going on at this foundry, right?

As I said, so many people haven't really experienced a technological disruption in healthcare.

And, you know, we have examples of companies

like Zipline delivering medicine using drones in Rwanda. And you have Americans using the Fitbit

or the Apple Watch to count their steps. But I'm going to guess that what you're doing at the

foundry is a little bit more sophisticated than counting steps. A little bit. So, you know,

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