Category: Healthcare

The US healthcare system has been deeply affected by the pandemic, accelerating the pace of moving people from hospitals to outpatient settings. Moving the treatment of less critical or severe conditions off the hospital campus can help reduce exposure and transmission and allow the hospital to focus on long-term and highly specific care. In hospital […]

The past 12 months have allowed the state and our healthcare organizations to work towards a new normal in terms of delivering patient care and managing our information services teams. The two most significant trends in 2022 were the transition of COVID-19 to endemic status and the impact of the “great resignation” – especially in […]

The Seattle-based managing director of HDR talks about his effort to create meaningful change through architecture, address climate change through regenerative design, and share his love of nature with his children. What drew you to a career in healthcare design? The dedication and focus that healthcare clients—nurses, doctors, and administrators—bring to their patient care spaces […]

I’ve been thinking as 2022 approaches, realizing that as healthcare IT leaders prepare for the new year, there will be many obstacles in our future path. Although nearly three years have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic, leading healthcare IT organizations have never been more challenged. What has worked for many years in terms of leading […]

At the end of every Healthcare Design Conference + Expo, I have the same thought: “This was our best year ever.” The 2022 event in San Antonio was no exception and I am not alone in my feelings. In the following days, I saw countless posts on social media echoing the same response. This year […]

As the temperatures finally drop here in the Midwest and we get our first dusting of snow on the ground, I can’t help but be thankful to stay inside and enjoy the quiet moments – for a few good reasons. It was a dizzying late summer/early fall, like here Healthcare Design the team also produced […]

The principal of Champlin Architecture in Cincinnati talks about his parents’ influence on his career, his appreciation of teamwork in everything from project teams to TV shows, and new work habits inspired by the pandemic. What drew you to a career in healthcare design? My father works in architectural design, so I started developing a […]

Imagine you had $14 billion, but you couldn’t give it away. The Federal Communications Commission has a similar problem with a key broadband grant program — but telehealth could help save the day. For better or worse, the Internet is embedded in everything people do, from educating our youth to practicing medicine. Enabling telehealth is […]

Earlier this fall, the center held the first in-person meeting for its new Pediatric Environmental Network (PEN). A group of nearly 40 design professionals, hospital executives and product manufacturers gathered at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to participate in two days of hands-on conversations about the future of the pediatric healthcare environment. One of the […]

dr. Prashila Dullabh is vice president and senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago and director of NORC’s Science Center for Health Implementation. She serves as the Principal Investigator of the Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative Project. She co-authored this article with Dean Sittig, NORC Senior Fellow and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at […]