UTMB, an innovator in the field of telemedicine, wants to make the process a commercial enterprise Houston Chronicle, Aug. 25, 2007 The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston is expanding part of its telemedicine group as a for-profit startup, dubbed NuPhysicia, with $5 million in funding from Houston-based private equity group Sanders Morris Harris. UTMB's Dr. Glenn Hammack discusses the new venture.