What makes smart hospitals smart? The answer is design. There is a growing trend of web-based doctor-patient relationships in the emerging practice of digital healthcare. Designers now concentrate more time on designing for healthcare technology that ever before. Smart Hospital design now includes innovations like check-in kiosks, multi-purpose rooms and education spaces that integrate digital technology. Widely dispersed check-in kiosks allow patients to schedule appointment

You have a nursing retention problem. This can be fixed. Earlier this year Endeal posted an interesting article on the state of nursing retention in our country. Challenges in the Nursing Area – Find a Solution includes the following sobering statistics: Aging workforce Median age is 54 years 10.7% of working RNs are 60+ 10.6% are younger than 30 Grueling workload Average day shift patient ratio 1:6 Average night shift patient ration 1:7 Day shift – average walking distance i

Designing for Healthcare Technology In recent years there has been a decrease in total percentage of healthcare investment for facility construction and design and a shift to information technology investments incentivized by the Affordable Care Act. In spite of this, the total dollars spent on design and construction will still rise in the coming years. And one of the greatest challenges healthcare will face is integrating medical technology. According to a recent article in

Designing for healthcare We are starting a series of articles on designing for healthcare. They will examine designing for patients, their families, medical staff, doctors, and healthcare administrators. Design will increasingly address patient and employee satisfaction as well as community relations. Focusing on ethnography will lead to more effective healthcare designs. You must know your end users to design for them. Branding will play more of a role in healthcare design a