Wow, a lot going on here in Las Vegas at HCD.10. The Lean design session was the hit of the day for me on Monday--more than 200 in attendance, standing room only. The message is clear: Healthcare is not business as usual and needs every tool possible to make...
In the face of constrained capital, many hospitals are in need of updates to their infrastructure, medical equipment, and mechanical systems. Furthermore, older hospitals are facing a number of problems including a lack of interstitial space, low floor-to-ceiling...
David Burson, AIA, Senior Project Manager, Partners HealthCare, is an architect with more than 30 years of planning, design, and project management experience in both private and public sector practice. His work has focused primarily in the areas of institutional...
At the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10 conference, The Center for Health Design will present the results of its second annual survey (conducted through support of Herman Miller) that validates the current state of evidence-based design in the marketplace and measures...
Practice Greenhealth has compiled data from its 2009 and 2010 Environmental Excellence Award applications, in an effort to break "greening" down into specific activities and help identify the structure that supports ongoing environmental improvement activities in the...
The transformative effects of healthcare reform and ARRA-HITECH are not always apparent to facility planners and architects, but the provisions are tightly linked to building and renovation plans, Healthcare Informatics Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland told the Healthcare...
Dev Patnaik, the CEO of Jump Associates and author ofWired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, helped kick off the official start of HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10 as Sunday’s keynote speaker. Dev reminded us all of an important component of...
I visited Sunrise Children's Hospital yesterday as part of the Facility Tours program offered at the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10 conference in Las Vegas, and to call it an eye-opening experience is an understatement. Architecturally speaking, Sunrise isn't the most striking...
Eileen Malone, RN, MSN, MS, EDAC, Senior Partner, Mercury Healthcare Consulting, LLC, and Barbara Dellinger, MS, AAHID, IIDA, EDAC, MDCID, Director, Health Care Interiors, East Coast, HDR, Inc., will be presenting their findings during the session "An Evidence-based...
Increasing efficiency and reducing waste have become key components for many aspects of the modern hospital, be it reducing patient waiting times and increasing throughput, or simply finding more convenient ways of doing things. Frank Zilm, DArch, FAIA, FACHA,...
The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health is being offered as one of many tours on Saturday, Nov. 13, at the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10 conference. Tours will be held from 1-5 p.m. and also include Centennial Hills Hospital, CSN Health Sciences & Nursing,...
Only FIVE DAYS until the HEALTHCARE DESIGN.10! This year’s HEALTHCARE DESIGN Conference in Las Vegas (11/13-11/16) is shaping up to be our best yet. We have some great presenters and partners this year including; award winning author and business consultant Dev...
