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Executive Summary

Medical Technology: A Built Environment Overview
June 2016 ∘ Executive Summary

Learn about: why a systems approach is needed to successfully integrate technology into the built environment, implications of the socio-technical system framework on planning and design around medical technology, and the impact of current and future technology on the continuum of care. 
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Project Brief

Collaboration Plays a Key Role in Creating a New Hybrid Operating Room
April 2016 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: Geisinger Health System’s efforts to create a new Hybrid Operating Room that flexes to accommodate different surgical setups and storage needs, how vendors working closely together around common goals can improve efficiency and maximize results, and the need to maintain flexibility in the built environment to allow designs to meet changing circumstances and incorporate improved technologies. 
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Lessons Learned

10 Lessons Learned About Incorporating Technology Into Healthcare Settings
April 2016 ∘ Lessons Learned

The following are compiled from research literature, case studies, interviews, and other materials to provide an overview on the topic of technology. 
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Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned About Patient-Centered Medical Homes
March 2016 ∘ Lessons Learned

The following are compiled from research literature, case studies, interviews, and other materials to provide an overview on the topic of patient-centered medical homes.  
Tool

Ambulatory Care Center Design Tool

December 2015 ∘ Tool

This Ambulatory Care Center Design Tool (ACCDT), developed by Dr. Anjali Joseph and Dr. Zahra Zamani from Clemson University in collaboration with The Center for Health Design (CHD), builds upon a series of papers, best practice case studies and in-depth literature reviews conducted by CHD as well as CHD's Clinic Design Post-Occupancy Evaluation Toolkit – Tool 2 Audit of Physical Environment with additions from a thesis by Crews (2013). The tool supports design teams in making key design decisions about ambulatory care centers linked to evidence based design goals and principles.
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Project Brief

New Medical Center Takes a Comprehensive Approach to Healthcare
August 2015 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: how the Princeton HealthCare System created a comprehensive campus to meet an array of medical and wellness needs for multiple generations, evidence-based design principles that were incorporated into the built environment, and how the new facility is positioned to respond to the changing healthcare field.
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Project Brief

Acoustical Wall Treatment Helps Improve HCAHPS Scores for Patient Satisfaction in ED Pilot
August 2015 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: how one hospital’s emergency room pilot project increased patient satisfaction, the standards developed post-pilot to decrease noise transfer to other areas of the hospital, and why having design changes on paper may not be enough.
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Project Brief

Palomar Health Communicates Its Commitment to Patients Through “Hospital of the Future”
March 2015 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: how Palomar Health facilitated an improvement in patient-provider and staff communication, about the multiple benefits of the organization's new decentralized nursing stations, and how the newly designed healing environment contributed to patient comfort and satisfaction.