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Healthcare Reform: Operational Impact and the Lean Design Team, Part 1
Photos courtesy of: CollinsWoerman
News May 4tgba: Beauty or the Beast?
As I sit here looking at our child’s DVD collection, my eyes focus on the famous Disney title,…
News May 3Family in Focus: Incorporating the Family into the Patient Room, Part 2
Photo credit: ©Perkins+Will, 2011; Figure 1. Exterior ground view rendering of Rush University Medical Center at the intersection…
News May 3HKS: Blurring the Lines between Patient Safety and Satisfaction
Infection control is one of the biggest hot topics in healthcare today. Much of this may be attributed…
News May 2Anthropology Underutilized in Healthcare Design
Cultural anthropologists have been used by some of the leading industrial design firms to help study human behavior…
News May 1Using evidence-based strategies to design safe, efficient, and adaptable patient rooms
The patient room is where patients spend the majority of their hospital stay and where they have the…
News April 30Raising the bar of baseline knowledge through the measurement of design innovations
In July 2010, my column “Best Practice, Next Practice” identified the drivers for innovation. In it, I noted…
Trends April 30Platinum Products & Services Guide
Welcome to our 4th edition of the HEALTHCARE DESIGN Platinum Products and Services Guide!Ever come across a product…
News April 30‘What you see is what you get'
What you see is what you get. In hospitals, patients and visitors count on the positive distraction that…
News April 30
