Telemedicine is the process of using technology to bridge a physical distance between patient and caregiver to achieve wellness. And for a couple years, I have been eagerly reading and peppering telemedicine practitioners with questions in an effort to find out the physical design requirements for successful telemedicine implementation. What does the ideal telemedicine space… [Read more…]
January 20, 2012
Every once in a while I read something that really makes me think about my stance on a core belief, and then totally change my own outlook. It is not often. I read a smart piece on healthcare in the Wall Street Journal this week on the future of personalized healthcare called “A Doctor in… [Read more…]
December 23, 2011
In a blog post earlier this year for Healthcare Building Ideas, I looked at how automation appears to be the last great hope for efficiency innovation in construction, that is, in the field where the work is being done on each project. And not long ago the da Vinci robot was taking some surgery departments… [Read more…]
August 31, 2011
With any leading medical technology, four constraints limit how successful the technology will be. The constraints are efficacy / applicability, target patient population, advancing technology, and cost of production. For example, the constraints on a 128-slice CT scan would be: its efficacy in its function toward its output, the patient population that can derive benefit from it,… [Read more…]
August 12, 2011
Reading about the technology and buzz behind proton treatment reminds me a lot about the scene from It’s a Wonderful Life when Jimmy Stewart’s character is offered an exciting new job—’in at the ground floor with plastics’. At the time, it was a new industry and people had no way of knowing how ubiquitous plastics… [Read more…]
February 21, 2011
I think most architects would admit evidence-based design is just starting to build some serious momentum. Sometime in the future, hopefully the near future, healthcare design will be based primarily on evidence-based research—and not just by the large, international practices who have their own R&D departments. This notion was reinforced when I blogged about an excellent… [Read more…]
October 18, 2010
For me, the two most rewarding aspects of healthcare design are 1) being able to learn about and design for leading medical technologies, and 2) designing projects that have a positive impact in the lives of others. Haskell’s most technologically-advanced project, which satisfies both of the healthcare design rewards, broke ground two months ago: the California Proton Treatment… [Read more…]
October 12, 2010
In August I wrote a piece on how designer healthcare was under-delivering in that the promises from the genomics field years ago had not had the positive effect on human health as expected. Even with the human genome mapped ten years ago, lingering health puzzles remain unsolved; the human genome is simply far more complex… [Read more…]
August 4, 2010
When Craig Venter’s Human Genome Project research successfully mapped the human genome, genetic engineering officially went mainstream. That was the turn of the millennium. The achievement appeared to be the beginning of healthcare optimized on a new plane. Understanding the body on the molecular level of DNA, the control panel that drives each of our individual biological destinies,… [Read more…]
April 20, 2012
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