Behind the Scenes of Houston Methodist’s Smart Hospital Campus

In 2021, when Houston Methodist leaders were setting the design vision for Cypress Hospital, they had to predict the future. They knew they wanted to equip the new facility along Houston’s rapidly growing U.S. 290 corridor with state-of-the-art technology to improve patient outcomes and clinician experiences. But Cypress wouldn’t open until 2025, leaving a four-year window in which technology would continue to evolve. “We said, ‘OK, what do we think will have matured by the time this hospital opens?’” says Chief Innovation Officer Roberta Schwartz. “And then we trialed those technologies at…