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Advanced Technology:
Enhancing Patient Experience
By Massoud Safaee
Would you rather spend a day in the hospital or on an airplane? Given the amenities patients enjoy in today’s high-tech hospitals— and the trials and tribulations of travelers held hostage on the runway without food or water—this perhaps is no longer just a rhetorical question. At least from the perspective of creature comfort, hospitals have become rather pleasant places. Wireless IV systems now allow mobile patients to walk hospital corridors relatively unencumbered. They may even be allowed to congregate in the aisles! And interactive entertainment with video on-demand, interactive television and Internet access as well as video games, make time in the hospital bed fly quickly, and with more legroom than on your average trip overseas. Needless to say, the primary goal of hospital technology is not to show patients a good time. Aside from the marketing bonus it provides in Advanced Technology: Enhancing Patient Experience an increasingly competitive healthcare environment, state-of-the-art medical technology is designed to reduce in-patient and staff cost as well as the risk of medical error. Just like the ultimate goal of air travel is to get the passenger quickly and safely to his desired destination— with in-flight entertainment only an added bonus—the use of advanced technology in the medical field serves the purpose of getting the patient from the scene of the accident to the emergency room, and ultimately back home as quickly and with as few complications as possible.
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The Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati
Designing a Center to Meet Advances in Medical Care
By John D. Blignaut, AIA, ACHA
Fetal surgery is a relatively new and exciting field in practical medicine. The first open fetal surgery took place in 1981 at the University of California at San Francisco. It has progressed from a select group of pioneers to the more mainstream medical therapy that it is today. Providing facilities to house such advances in medical care challenges medical planners and designers to meet their special needs.
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A Good Move
Effectively Transitioning to a New Hospital Helps Maximize the Investment in a State-of-the-Art Facility
By Virginia Schneider, RN, MSN & Alice Wainwright, RN, MSN, CNNA, FACHE
Building a new hospital today requires a substantially larger financial investment than in past decades. Nevertheless, we are in the midst of an unprecedented healthcare building boom. Health systems are willing to make the financial commitment to replace aging, outdated hospitals. The new consumer-focused facilities are transforming healthcare and giving their owners an edge in a highly competitive marketplace. Simply shelling out money for the latest amenities, equipment and technology does not ensure transformational results. For a new hospital to function at its full potential, people will need to work in new ways— creating new care processes and using new technologies. That’s why those moving into a new hospital can benefit from transitioning services that go beyond managing the physical move to the new building.
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