In a plenary session on Tuesday, March 6 at the 2012 ASHE PDC Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, the Chairman of the Health Guidelines Revision Committee Douglas S. Erickson, FASHE, CHFM, HFDP, CHC, provided a sneak preview on changes to expect in the forthcoming 2014 FGI Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities.
Renowned Futurist Ian Morrison, PhD, opened the plenary session "Hospital and Care Systems of the Future" on Monday, March 5, of the 2012 ASHE PDC Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, with a confession. "The dirty little secret of Futurism is that we cannot actually predict the future," he confided.
In a well-attended and well-received opening keynote address at the 2012 ASHE PDC Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, on Monday, March 5, NPR and PBS reporter and author of The Healing of America T. R. Reid delivered a talk that revealed many insights of his "world tour" spent searching for the ideal healthcare system.
A new website dedicated to helping facility managers and architects gain better knowledge about the medical technology requirements of healthcare facilities has recently been launched by the ECRI Institute. There will be articles, links, and technology experts available among many other resources.
The 2012 Vista Awards were presented Monday by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association at the annual ASHE
After a successful launch last year, Nurture by Steelcase, HEALTHCARE DESIGN, and The Center for Health Design are proud to announce the 2012 Nurture Collegiate Healthcare Design Competition. This unique opportunity for students to participate in a conceptual healthcare design competition designed to engage future healthcare architects and designers to use an evidence-based design process in their work. "Tech support" most commonly conjures up the image of a knowledgeable guy guiding us through a troubleshooting exercise with our computer over the phone, or perhaps at work. But tech support can mean technology supporting and bolstering an otherwise untechnical work effort. For those of you unfamiliar with it, HIMSS is the acronym for Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, a "not-for-profit organization focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology and management systems for the betterment of healthcare." The group's 2012 annual conference wrapped up last week in Las Vegas, well over 37,000 attendees strong (a new att As mentioned in blogs by my colleagues Associate Editor Shandi Matambanadzo and Healthcare Building Ideas Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, last week we were given a tour of two Cleveland Clinic facilities designed by
A quick update from the HEALTHCARE DESIGN (HCD) and Healthcare Building Ideas (HBI) editorial team about our websites! Well when I originally started writing this blog a few days ago everything was great in the world of technology and our websites were robust with new features added. That is, until something went awry in the server room. The integrated project delivery (IPD) approach toward hospital design and construction has gotten a lot of attention lately,as project teams have become much more attuned to the fact that working collaboratively typically produces much better results than working in separate silos. That very same shift towards integration is also being paralleled in the hospital facility itself, particularly the operating room (OR) environment, where there is a fast-emerging trend afoot in the development, growth, and demand for the hybrid OR. A visit to two local healthcare facilities in the Cleveland Clinic Health System provided a rare treat for HEALTHCARE DESIGN’s Editor-in-Chief Todd Hutlock and I, along with the Editor-in-Chief on Healthcare Building Ideas Jennifer Kovacs Silvis.
It’s Back!: The 2012 Nurture Collegiate Healthcare Design Competition
Tech Support for Design and Construction
HIMSS and the Healthcare Design Community: Where's the Connection?
Killing the "Visual Noise"
Fine-Tuning Our Websites
Hybrid ORs—The Magic Kingdom
Planning Calm into Healthcare
