Conversations With Dez

I caught up with Rod Cruz, General Manager, Healthcare Solutions, at AT&T, to talk about Consumerism in Healthcare, Digital Health technology & the Patient Experience, the Connected Ambulance with combined FirstNet, 5G and IoMT, and more. Rod is no stranger to the show, in fact it was exactly one year since Rod was last on the show, and we had almost a quarter of a million listeners tune in to hear Rod's insights and updates. More recently I caught up with Rod on camera at the 2019 AT&T Business Summit event in Dallas. We kick off this conversation with a high-level 30,000 foot industry update on the state of 5G and Healthcare, in particular some of the success AT&T have had in this space through 2018 and 2019 leading up to 2020. We then dive into more detail around some of the examples I’ve seen over the last year or two which really piqued my interest and certainly the interest of my listeners - we start with FirstNet, the background to it, and how AT&T went about successfully deploying a world leading e