Enhancing Patient Experiences through Converged Connectivity Solutions

Step into the future of healthcare.

Explore our state-of-the-art Customer Innovation Center™ in Chicago, where you will experience our immersive healthcare solutions showcase.

Join us for a tailored tour led by our team of experts as we walk you through our Enhanced Patient Experience Showcase. Discover firsthand how we're reshaping the landscape of healthcare, seamlessly integrating technologies to elevate patient satisfaction and boost staff retention rates.

Together, let’s shape the future of healthcare excellence.

Meet our experts:

Matt Odell

Digital Automation Consultant

Healthcare

Matthew Odell, RCDD, is a digital automation consultant for Belden, acting as our resident healthcare expert. He specializes in complex projects and emerging technologies within the world of healthcare. Before joining Belden, Matt spent two decades in hands-on networking roles at a well-known healthcare institution, plus nine years in healthcare technology. In these positions, he worked in industry-leading healthcare, hyperscale data center and design/build construction environments. Matt is an active member of several healthcare industry associations and served as a BICSI regional director.

Henry Franc

Manager, Solution Consultant

Healthcare

Henry Franc, RCDD OSP CDCP, is a smart buildings solutions consultant manager for Belden, specializing in healthcare and data center design, planning and building. With more than 30 years of industry experience, he acts as a trusted advisor for large, complex healthcare projects. His international standards work crosses technologies and industries. Currently, he serves as the TIA TR-42 committee chair for premises cabling standards and vice chair of the TR-42 Telecommunications Cabling Systems Engineering Committee. He also helped establish ANSI/TIA-1179, Healthcare Facility Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard.

Ronald Tellas

Manager, Technology and Applications

Healthcare

Ron Tellas joined Belden in 2016 as a subject-matter expert in RF design and electromagnetic propagation. With 16 patents to his name, his mission is to help define the technology and application roadmap for smart buildings, including smart hospitals. He’s recognized industry-wide for his contributions, recently receiving the Harry J. Pfister Award for Excellence in the Telecommunications Industry and a TIA Start Award. As a cabling standards expert, he prioritizes reading and understanding standards so he can help healthcare clients minimize downtime, reduce expenses and simplify networks. He represents Belden in the ISO WG3 Committee, TIA TR-42 Premises Cabling Standards, IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group and Connected Technologies Industry Consortium. He’s also a member of NFPA 70 Code-Making Panel 3 and 16.

Jake Jordan

Solution Account Manager

Healthcare

Jake Jordan is a solutions account manager for Belden, specializing in healthcare. Step by step, he guides healthcare clients through their digitization journeys at their own pace. In addition to his experience in specifying and deploying solutions for healthcare IT applications, he also brings several years of technology and infrastructure experience to his role. Jake acts as a trusted advisor for healthcare projects of all kinds, assessing clients’ needs and finding technology capabilities to overcome the daily challenges they face—from improving the patient experience to retaining qualified workers.

Alan Halloy

Solution Account Manager

Healthcare

Alan Halloy is a strategic account manager for Belden, specializing in large national healthcare accounts. He consults and collaborates with healthcare professionals to help them provide the highest-quality patient care possible and optimize their healthcare system operations. Alan has been involved with healthcare and technology for more than two decades—10 of those years within Belden. He excels at understanding the needs of healthcare clients on a technical, operational and financial level and helps them understand how their technology decisions can affect performance and care.

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