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Hospital Environment Prototype Unveiled
A new prototype for a universal care environment is scheduled to be shown at this year’s Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo (HFSE) in Chicago on Sept. 14-15.
Design and manufacturing professionals that met in Chicago at the 2009 HFSE for a series of workshops explored the potential of deep collaboration to improve healthcare environments through standardization.
The group of professionals developed the objective to fundamentally change the operational care platform for patients, essentially decoupling the bed from the headboard and developing a standardized "kit of parts" for building patient environments. Implementation of these concepts presented several benefits, one of which was the minimization of technology within the architectural shell by integrating equipment solutions in self-sufficient platforms that would be able to be upgraded quickly and inexpensively. This innovative standardization also promotes flexible environments that are quicker to deliver, easily adaptable with changing technology and provide universal healthcare operations that eliminate patient handoffs where multiple touch points lead to accidents and diminished effective outcomes.
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