by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 15, 2012 | Trends
There has been a subtle but noticeable shift in the healthcare design industry’s understanding and acceptance of evidence-based design (EBD). EBD is becoming a more mainstream process for designing healthcare facilities, demonstrated by both the growing number of...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 13, 2012 | News
It’s a common sight: a press release written by a PR agency or the marketing department of a healthcare facility announcing a new healthcare project. There are all sorts of details in the release: size of the project, square footage, cost, location,...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 12, 2012 | Trends
Simply put, translational health science refers to the process of moving scientific discovery into clinical application. The goal is to create better patient outcomes by accelerating the translation of basic science discoveries into effective therapies, and,...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 9, 2012 | News
The recently concluded 2012 edition of the American Society for Healthcare Engineering of the American Hospital Association International Summit & Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design, and Construction (commonly known as the ASHE PDC...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 8, 2012 | News
The history of the Whittier Street Health Center (WSHC) in Boston, Massachusetts, is grounded in its constant commitment to the needs of the community that surrounds it. From its origins as a well baby clinic in 1933, WSHC may have changed addresses a few times...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 8, 2012 | Trends
Reception and check-in areas Continuing our discussion of clinic design, let’s look at the reception and check-in areas. The reception area is usually the first place patients have face-to-face interaction with staff. The design provides an opportunity to project a...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 8, 2012 | News
My time here at the ASHE PDC Summit is coming to a close. It’s been an interesting few days in Phoenix, and I’ll be sharing more with all of you over the course of the next few days once I return back home to Cleveland.Initially, my overall take-away from...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 7, 2012 | News
For the Tuesday morning closing keynote at the 2012 ASHE PDC Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, author, consultant, and futurist (and ASHE PDC master of ceremonies) Ian Morrison pulled together the key messages presented throughout the conference into a...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 7, 2012 | News
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...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 6, 2012 | News
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...
