ASID: Accommodating the adolescent patient

Designing for adolescents requires a specialized knowledge base due to their physical, mental, and emotional variances from both children and adults. However, the ambiguity of the adolescent phase between childhood and adulthood creates a challenge to effectively...

ASID: Open 7 days a week—Come one, come all!

Healthcare clinics and urgent care is a service that we have all had to visit at some point, whether it be to take a child in the middle of the night, an elderly parent, or even ourselves. If you have not had this experience, I feel sure that sometime in your life,...

Is patient-centered care working?

Something of a contrarian article from Anthony Cirillo over at Hospital Impact that addresses how successful person-/patient-centered care is. In his estimation, the move to patient-centered care has been an unsuccessful one. He cites a culture change, the nature of...

Wal-Mart's retail clinic woes

An interesting read from Business Week that looks at the recent failures of Wal-Mart to capitalize on the growing retail clinic trend . In it, the author explains why Wal-Mart has been unable to capitalize on the market that smaller retail companies (CVS, Walgreens,...

Will you be attending HCD.09?

Will you be attending HEALTHCARE DESIGN.09? 37.50% – Yes 17.86% – No 44.64% – We had to cut such expenses from our budget COMMENTS – Registration Fees too high to justify. Registration is more than travel...
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