Integrating IT

I sat it on an interesting session at the recent HEALTHCARE DESIGN.11 conference in Nashville. Terry Miller, BSEE, an EVP at GBA, and Ted Hood, B.Arch, SVP and COO at GBA, discussed the importance of integrating technology planning into the construction schedule...

Making Room for Art

On December 1, I moderated a Webinar titled "Case Study: The New Chickasaw Nation Medical Center in Ada, Oklahoma–Designing for a 'Nation within a Nation'" and featuring speakers Dr. Judy Goforth Parker, Louise Nicholson Carter, and Talmadge...

Art in Healthcare

You assess need and find that, indeed, there is one. You review and analyze financials, and consult with colleagues, subject matter experts, and close advisors. You take time to examine options, to compare and contrast pros and cons. And after such thoughtful...

How Are You Using Evidence-Based Design?

Early this year, at the time of the third annual online survey of design research in healthcare settings, the economy was showing signs of a slow recovery. The Architecture Billings Index had been more positive, but architecture firms were expecting revenue gains of...

From Room to Department

Anniversaries invite review of the past and visions for the future. As HEALTHCARE DESIGN celebrates 10 years, it is interesting to look back—from a former emergency department nurse’s perspective—at how emergency departments have evolved...

Is Design-Bid-Build Going Out Of Style?

What do you think is the best delivery method for construction projects? The question is one that’s likely to spur plenty of debate, with an answer dependent upon a number of variables. And now it looks like the federal government is adding its own two cents to...

Empathy + Healthcare Architecture

It was almost too obvious. Sitting at a conference with thousands of fellow designers, planners, and innovators in the healthcare design field, I was taken back by keynote speaker Dev Patnaik as he spoke on a topic that struggles to realistically exist in...

Delivering Palomar

If there’s one project that can showcase to what extent integrated project delivery (IPD) can be used on a healthcare construction site, it’s the massive expansion Palomar Pomerado Health is undergoing in Southern California.On hand to discuss the Palomar...
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