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HEALTHCARE REAL ESTATE, CONSTRUCTION, DESIGN & FACILITY PLANNING

The Future of Healthcare Design

The digital transformation and levels of will improve safety and reduce unintended of technology, a patient can receive the
innovation at ever increasing speeds will medical reactions from conflicts between same sophisticated medical treatment for-
continue to impact healthcare facility multiple medical providers. In the near mally required within a major medical
design throughout the United States. A future, DNA testing of individuals will facility. The difference between a free-
key question for the industry is how the improve the selection of medicines by standing ER and a micro hospital is that a
built environment will support and being able to anticipate reactions to medi- micro hospital can admit and provide
respond to these rapid changes in health- cines, based upon analytical data, in lieu of more than emergency care treatment. A
care. Healthcare will continue to be the trial and error. The business and financial micro hospital is a more comprehensive
design issue of the decade. Healthcare implications of healthcare improve ments medical treatment facility.
architects will be obligated to enhance the call for additional purchasing of the tech- Since the business of medicine is part of
patient experience and improve the clini- nologies indicated, but also for drastically every medical organizations bottom line, it
cian experience simultaneously as we adjusted medical building designs. is less expensive and less of a financial
strive to reduce construction costs without The future of healthcare also looks com- strain to construct a micro hospital for 30
impacting quality of care. pact! One such changes on the horizon are million dollars in lieu of a full-scale facility
The increased use of telehealth, robot- BY CHARLES MICHELSON, AIA, micro hospitals which could only have fif- for well in excess of 120 million dollars.
ics, and artificial intelligence in Healthcare ACHA, LEED AP teen beds in the facility. They will start to At the end of the day, micro hospitals
will help bridge the gap. emerge in rural areas and even suburban might be the medical construction dis-
There have been numerous articles writ- and urban markets. rupter as healthcare connects with
ten about the positive impact of robotics in These facilities support the larger hospi- patients and provides the appropriate level
medicine, such as those used in surgery. macists, specialists, transitional care tal facilities by providing rapid turnover of care at the appropriate cost.
The benefit to the patient is to have less teams, to even education classes, will have treatment in a hospital setting while
intrusive major surgery which becomes an the benefits of computerization and artifi- simultaneously improving the patient For more information, contact Charles A.
overnight or outpatient activity. Just a cial intelligence guide people, treatments experience. These facilities will decom- Michelson, President, Saltz Michelson
decade ago, the same procedures would and follow ups efficiently and effectively, press major medical institutions for the Architects, at (954) 266-2700 or
have required four or five days of recovery being proactive in medical treatments. most severe and elaborate cases. By virtue cmichelson@saltzmichelson.com or visit
in the hospital. Programs and apps will guide people thru of its size, the micro hospital can provide www.saltzmichelson.com.
Medical care teams, made up of every- a process and eliminate the “fell thru the lower cost care for patients when com-
one from doctors, nurses, assistants, phar- cracks” moments. Artificial intelligence pared with traditional hospitals. By virtue

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