by HCD Guest Author | Nov 18, 2015 | Trends
Don’t be surprised if there’s an industrial engineer at your next project planning meeting. The continuous improvement specialist—also known as Lean design expert, performance improvement coach, or process improvement consultant—is an increasingly common staff member...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 17, 2015 | News
A hospital’s goal to achieve net-zero energy isn’t impossible, but it’s an effort that requires a combination of active and passive systems and community partnerships. That was the message from Kim Shinn, a principal and senior sustainability wizard at TLC Engineering...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 16, 2015 | News
Among the challenges facing hospitals today is care for chronic patients—addressing how to keep them healthy and out of the hospital and serving them once they do arrive. To look for ways to address the issue, a group of healthcare, technology, and design...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 16, 2015 | News
What’s service design and how can it improve the patient experience? That’s what Allison Matthews, a senior service designer at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation was on hand to explain to attendees of the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference on Monday....
by Kristin D. Zeit | Nov 16, 2015 | News
The Center for Health Design presented its 2015 Changemaker Award to Roger Ulrich, the “father of evidence-based design,” at a Monday morning general session at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference. Rosalyn Cama, the outgoing board chair for The Center—who also...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 16, 2015 | News
The ambulatory care trend isn’t going anywhere. And as hospitals and health systems continue to spread their reach into communities through smaller clinics and medical office buildings, the more they’re considering leasing these spaces as opposed to buying. From...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 15, 2015 | News
Reducing hospital readmissions is on the minds of designers, operators, and owners across the healthcare design spectrum—and rightfully so as penalties for these continue to take effect. During a session at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in Washington,...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 15, 2015 | News
It’s not every day that an acute inpatient behavioral health hospital opens in a converted four-story office building, but that’s just what Quail Run Behavioral Health Hospital did in November 2014. The team behind the considerable challenge shared the project story...
by Anne DiNardo | Nov 15, 2015 | News
“Can the physical environment influence behavior in a positive way?” That was the question posed to attendees at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference in the session, “Healthy Environments for Autism.” Specifically, speakers Cathy Lord, a clinical psychologist...
by Jennifer Silvis | Nov 15, 2015 | News
What are people saying about your organization? What do you want them to say? What are you doing to get them to say it? Those three questions are applicable for the design firm trying to attract new clients, the healthcare system looking to gain more market share, and...
