Clicks And Bricks Design And Technology Summit

"Collaborating Today on the Challenges of Tomorrow "

Produced by The Center for Health Design and Vendome Group, LLC

A combination of market pressures, regulatory requirements and emerging technologies has spurred hospital construction across the country.   Developing and completing a compelling and financially successful project is both a major challenge, and a great opportunity. 

Healthcare innovation is happening at the intersection of technology, design and clinical care. New technologies are changing how, where and what care is delivered. Managing the ripple effect of technology on clinical care, workforce and facilities of care is essential.

Matching Business Imperatives, Technology and Buildings

Three major forces are shaping the built environment:

1. The business demands and pressures of hospitals – differentiating by quality of care and value, competing for increasingly scarce human resources, finding the capital resources in a tight economy and funding market.
2. The emergence of new technologies that reshape the delivery of care and the design of facilities, including those that support sustainable development (water and power reclamation and management), leverage valuable human resources (telemedicine) and change the site and extent of care delivered (minimally invasive surgical procedures)
3. Design innovations and approaches, including the emergence of sustainable design and the definition and creation of “healing environments”

Success comes from understanding, and matching, the requirements of all three forces.

Evidence and Collaboration – The Keys to Progress

Great progress is being made, project-by-project, across the country by leading executives, developers and designers.  One reason for that progress is the increasing adoption of the principles of evidence-based design – the conscious effort to rigorously test design hypotheses and measure the results of specific decisions.  That rigor is making it easier to document and disseminate changes across the industry.  We believe that this progress can be accelerated by bringing together leaders from all three groups on a national basis to share best practices and new ideas, and collaboratively shape an agenda for exploring, validating and disseminating them.

Immerse Yourself

The Clicks and Bricks Technology and Design Summit is designed to bring together leaders in management, technology and design in an intensive, interactive venue to shape a new future for healthcare. Participants will learn about new developments and their implications for developing, financing and operating future facilities. You will also be part of a process to identify and establish a research agenda that will help justify the investments organizations are making in technology and facilities.

Shape a New Future

The Clicks and Bricks Summit brings together three critical groups:

• Health care executives, who are envisioning and developing the built environment

• Technology developers, who are creating new platforms, integrating systems and responding to market needs, and  

• Designers, who are advancing the state of the art for facilities, reacting to and demanding new technologies, and supporting the industry.

At Clicks and Bricks you can plan on meaningful interaction in collaborative groups. In addition, you will be able to explore specific technologies and innovations one on one with a wide range of leading developers. These developers support the Clicks and Bricks Technology and Design Summit as program grantors and bring a wealth of knowledge about current and future research and development within their firms.

Accelerate Progress

As part of this 3-day summit you will help craft solutions and commit to actions that shape a new future and improve the quality of healthcare. Your contributions will provide a catalyst for innovation and positive change, setting the stage for well-designed facilities and improved delivery of clinical, social, and financially viable healthcare. Together we can collaboratively shape an agenda for change that crosses multiple facilities, settings and levels of care, and one that can be rigorously tested and based on evidence.

Location & Date

The 2008 program has been rescheduled for 2009. New dates for the event are: June 15-16, 2009 San Francisco, CA

For more information on the program, e-mail Jennifer Wilcox.