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Amerinet
Healthcare Business Summit
May 19-22
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Infographic You Can Use!
Trivia: Do you know the recommended nighttime decibel level for a patient room?
Check out this fascinating whitepaper called "Building in Sound", that takes a look at the data linking sound and well-being.
Answer: 30 decibels, the equivalent of a typical library. |
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Media Attention for the Smartphone Physical
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Smartphone Physical Video Picked Up By USA Today
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Upcoming Pebble in Practice Workshops
These Pebble-in-Practice workshops provide four unique, immersive experiences that dive deep into strategic design trends and provide new models and implementation strategies for tomorrow's healthcare built environment:
The Patient Experience: the Built Environment, and Patient-Centered Care Workshop;
May 9-10 in Chicago, IL
The Emergency Department: Strategic Design Considerations;
June 27-28 in Washington, DC
The Healthcare Campus - Tomorrow's Ambulatory Environment;
July 25-26 in Orlando, FL
The Next Generation of the High Performance Sustainable Building;
September 23-25 in San Diego, CA
Read more about the workshops here.
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Technology in Healthcare
 Nurture and IIDA recently teamed up to host a "Technology in Healthcare" forum in New York City. Held in the penthouse suite of the Steelcase showroom overlooking Central Park, an audience of over 70 architects and designers braved a chilly spring night to talk about how technology is impacting healthcare design.
The audience approached the topic with the following questions:
1) What technologies have developed as a result of the demands of the healthcare industry?
2) How have these technologies impacted patient care services and clinical outcomes?
3) How have healthcare products advanced with such technologies?
Tracy Nichols, Area Healthcare Manager for Nurture in NY/NJ/CT, told the crowd of architects and designers the story of Vail Mountain, which opened in the winter of 1962-63 to twelve skiers for a $5 lift tickets. Lift tickets are now $106 but contain embedded chips that track the number of vertical feet skied, the trails visited and your top speed of the day, all uploaded instantly to the social media site of the skier's choice - just one example of how what used to be a simple trip up the mountain can be transformed by technology, and can overwhelm its less tech-savvy visitors. "Technology is everywhere. This could leave us feeling overwhelmed, but its advantages, if effectively and prudently used, outweigh the frustrations," said Tracy.
How does this translate into healthcare? Consider E-Health, the process of using information and communications technologies for health purposes. This includes treating patients, conducting research, educating the health workforce, tracking diseases and monitoring public health, all providing greater opportunities for patient learning, access to information and transference of knowledge.
Tablets, smartphones, and their applications have redefined medicine. Health and wellness is the third-fastest growing app category for smart phones, and each app is designed to increase efficiency, improve medicine, and overall patient care. With a smart phone or tablet, a doctor can go from room to room to monitor patients, or even, as is now the case with fetal monitoring, track patients remotely. Today, many hospitals provide tablets to staff. Telemedicine is connecting healthcare providers with patients, simulating our contemporary equivalent of 'face-to-face' interaction, with the assistance of remote support staff to administer actual treatment. Smart boards and media centers are also being used for conferences for the patient care teams. Technology will heavily influence personal healthcare and promote the trend toward wellness-based healthcare, as opposed to the traditional illness-based healthcare. Screenings, check-ups, maintenance and healthy lifestyles are the emphasis.
But how will this change healthcare design? A few possibilities:
* Physicians will concentrate on prevention and aftercare instead of treatment; this, in turn, will affect how they set up their waiting and exam rooms to address new information systems, etc.
* Hospitals will become multifunctional spaces with much more light for healing; they will provide technology touch points and will accommodate partners-in-care with digital media centers and individual "project" space
* Spaces will become adaptable to changing modes of care delivery, with flexibility being crucial
* Inpatient bed areas will shift to single rooms with greater patient media control. Diagnostic, treatment and support areas are shifting as well.
For further discussion of technology in healthcare, check out the Nurture blog.
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Exploring the Future of Healthcare Environments
A recent seminar, entitled "Exploring the Future of Healthcare Environments", hosted by Pedco and Loth Inc. at Loth's Cincinnati showroom, endeavored to offer participants a new perspective on how the evolution of the healthcare industry will affect healthcare environments in a variety of settings.
Nurture's Director of Design Alliances Bill Coble presented the keynote speaker, Mark Goodman, VP of Project Development at the Center for Health Design, who spoke on 10 trends impacting healthcare facility design. Abbie Clary, VP and Regional Director of Healthcare at HDR, delivered a keynote as well, on the key themes and trends that are shaping care delivery, how to use research as a tool to develop new care delivery models, and how an organization can drive transformative change through the understanding of these trends and the needs of its community.
Following these two well-received keynote presentations was a panel of local healthcare design experts, who explored how these trends, and more, are influencing Greater Cincinnati's healthcare industry.
"The turnout was great," Bill Coble said. "The speakers were a great catalyst for the panel to share their viewpoint and engage the audience, and Doug Bolton, the managing partner at Loth, moderated the panel and was instrumental in getting the audience involved. They truly did a superb job of presenting a compelling reason for this type of turnout."
The panel discussed issues like facilitating the transition to home-based care upon discharge from acute and/or ambulatory care facilities, the challenges around staff space with different generations in the workplace, the new reality of facilities being expected to adapt to change in just two to three years, versus the old normal of five to ten, involving the family and patient more in space surveys, and the ability to customize a room's lighting and color based on the culture or demographics of the patient. |
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