ORLANDO – Juan Santos, SVP of name expertise and innovation on the Tavistock Group and innovator in Orlando’s deliberate group Lake Nona, kicked off the Enterprise Join Program at HIMSS24.
“If you happen to examine Lake Nona, it has been known as Medical Metropolis by the media,” Santos stated. “The explanation for that is that on the core of Lake Nona, on the base of who we’re, we’ve a really strong healthcare ecosystem.”
Lake Nona is dwelling to the College of Central Florida Faculty of Drugs, Orlando VA Medical Heart and Nemours Kids’s Hospital.
The group has 24,000 residents, and residents can go from pre-Okay to MD/PhD with out leaving the group. The common price of residency is 15% to twenty% increased than surrounding areas, and there are not any standards for individuals to stay there.
“Now we have a full ecosystem, and that is the primary piece of what we do,” Santos stated. “When individuals hear about well being and healthcare in a group, the primary thought, in fact, is to the medical establishments. We’re tremendous proud to have the companions that we’ve with the VA and UCF and all the nice individuals within the medical discipline which can be there.”
Santos stated Lake Nona additionally believes psychological well being and the final wellbeing of the group inhabitants are vital.
The householders affiliation presents yoga within the park, meditation, web entry, a tennis campus, races and artwork festivals.
Santos stated that the corporate has run a longitudinal well being research repeatedly for the reason that group was constructed 9 years in the past, which exhibits it created a wholesome surroundings for the individuals residing there.
“Now we have an surroundings that has nice bodily infrastructure, every thing from single-family houses to residences. You’ve gotten Fortune 50, and you’ve got startups. There are retail areas, eating places and parking garages. So, nice bodily infrastructure,” Santos stated.
The group additionally has a deep technical infrastructure, together with a cloud-based information infrastructure that collects behavioral information about what individuals locally are doing.
“On this bodily infrastructure, digital infrastructure and human surroundings, we’ve one thing that we name a sensible and responsive metropolis,” Santos stated. “Our objective is to take away friction and make experiences higher by partaking extra actively and successfully with individuals and creating these residing environments.”
The group presents houses or “a residing lab” dubbed WHIT, a Wellness Residence Constructed on Innovation and Expertise.
WHIT consists of particulars designed to empower residents to stay more healthy lives, corresponding to a Sleep Sanctuary, a Wellness Kitchen, dynamic lighting and applied sciences for health, relaxation and rest.
There may be additionally a community of programs that collects information in actual time about how persons are related. The information helps the corporate visualize and management how town reacts. The information is used to correlate residing behaviors to well being outcomes.
“You’ve gotten these processes that sit on the cloud proper now … that take the open APIs for information distributors or for the completely different those that give us IT and know-how providers, they learn the info, they usually hand it off,” Santos stated.
He continued that so long as the system has an open and documented API, which most programs have, then the corporate can seize that information and publish it, and organizations like UCF can use the identical infrastructure to publish information.
The corporate additionally creates a digital twin surroundings, a high-resolution 3D illustration of the house round people, used to check issues like crosswalks, shadows in an surroundings and the looks of houses.
The know-how additionally gives a geographic dashboard with data-related temperature and warmth maps.
The corporate is working to attach the 2 types of information to research how modifications in numerous areas of the group will have an effect on the group and its residents.
Santos stated the endeavor has its challenges, notably guaranteeing privateness and shifting the design past the Lake Nona group.
