Tag: health

Reasons To Celebrate – HCD Magazine

Debra LevinAt 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’m not alone in my sentiments. In the days following, I saw countless social media posts echoing the same response.

This year felt extra special for many reasons. Though we were able to gather together last year in Cleveland, we were fewer, and people were still being very cautious. There were more fist bumps than hugs, and many friends and colleagues I saw only from the eyes up.

From day one of this year’s conference, the energy was tangible. People were excited to be together to learn and celebrate our accomplishments as a community. And celebrate we did.

There was a packed house when A. Ray Pentecost III, director of The Center for Health Systems and Design, was

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PHOTO TOUR: Friend Health Center

Friend Health wanted to establish a project that serves medically underserved areas within Chicago’s neighborhoods, particularly in the city’s South Side area.

The resulting Friend Family Health Center in the Woodlawn neighborhood is certified as a Federally Qualified Health Center that provides low-cost services to residents in need, regardless of insurance, financial status, or immigration status.

Designed by Moody Nolan (Columbus) and built by construction firm Powers and Sons (Chicago), the project spans two stories and displays a welcoming facade to the neighborhood. The building entrances are aligned with public transportation routes to encourage accessibility.

A mural on the exterior of the facility celebrates the history and diversity of the Woodlawn community, as well. Painted by local muralist Rahmaan Statik Barnes, the piece uses warmth, color, and connectedness to feature “living legends” from Woodlawn, including  Pemon Rami, Takalayah Barnes, Atiyah RunTings, Afrika Porter, Lesle Honore, Rahmaan Statik, and Masequa Myers.

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Cause And Effect – HCD Magazine

As the temperatures finally dip here in the Midwest and we have our first dusting of snow on the ground, I can’t help but be grateful to stay inside and enjoy some quiet moments—for a couple of good reasons.

It was a dizzying late summer/early fall, as our Healthcare Design team produced both our HCD Forum event in September and then just three weeks later our Healthcare Design Conference + Expo in October. In between the two, my family and I moved to a new house. (I’d say thankfully it’s just one mile from our previous house, but we’ve come to realize moving is a nightmare regardless of distance.)

And as we’ve settled into our new place and work to make it our own—and are repeatedly exasperated by the laundry list of to-dos that come with loving a century-old home—I’m reminded of why we ended up here in the first

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How crowdsourcing can advance precision medicine programs

Sarah Prezek is a lead associate and project manager at Booz Allen Hamilton. This blog was coauthored with Vishal Thovarai, lead scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Elaine Johanson, director of the health informatics staff under FDA’s Office of Data, Analytics, and Research, and program manager of precisionFDA.

Healthcare organizations understand the enormous potential of precision medicine. The current one-size-fits-all medical treatments deliver non-uniform results and often perform poorly for those who do not fit the “average patient” health profile.

By considering an individual’s specific health attributes, including genomic, environmental and lifestyle information, medical professionals can better tailor specific treatments that will deliver more successful outcomes.

What if, for example, doctors could better understand which COVID-19 vaccine would perform best on a particular patient based on their unique health profile, or gain insights into how to address the multitude of symptoms associated with long-term COVID?

Enter precision medicine. Advances

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Breaking Through 2022 Finalist: A.R.O.M.A.

Breaking Through 2022 Finalist

Now in its third installment, Healthcare Design’s Breaking Through is a conceptual design competition that encourages industry members to forget the traditional rules and restrictions of healthcare design to answer the challenges anticipated for the future of healthcare delivery. Four finalists made it to the finale that took place at the 2022 HCD Conference + Expo in San Antonio and presented their concepts to the audience during a keynote session.

Concept: A.R.O.M.A.
Team: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Team representatives: Erica Parker, product designer; Christopher Brause, product designer; and Pulkit Jain, senior data engineer

The premise: Most healthcare data is collected via slow, expensive research projects that are reactive to long-existing health concerns, meaning communities might experience a huge toll before anything is learned or action taken.

A.R.O.M.A. (Ambient Robotic Olfactory Monitoring Apparatus) proposes a preventive health tool that leverages sensors and artificial intelligence

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Face Time: Mike Anderson At Champlin Architecture

The principal at Champlin Architecture in Cincinnati talks about his parents’ influence on his career path, appreciation for teamwork in everything from project teams to TV shows, and new pandemic-inspired work habits.

What drew you to a career in healthcare design?

My father works in architectural design, so at a very early age I started developing a passion for architecture. At just three years old, I remember sitting next to my dad at his drafting table, drawing up houses for all of my family members. My mother was a nurse for many years, so I also grew up hearing and seeing a lot about the healthcare world. My siblings and I all followed our parents’ footsteps, with me in architecture and my two brothers in healthcare.

During my first healthcare project at Champlin Architecture in 2004, I knew right away it was a project type that I would enjoy focusing

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Grand challenges and opportunities for patient-centered CDS

Dr. Prashila Dullabh is vice president and senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago, and Director of NORC’s Health Implementation Science Center. 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 the University of Texas Health Sciences Center and a co-investigator of the CDSiC Project; Dr. David Lobach, vice president of health informatics research at Elimu Informatics and a co-investigator of the CDSiC Project; James Swiger, health scientist administrator in the division of digital healthcare research in the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; and Dr. Edwin Lomotan, chief of clinical informatics for the Division of Digital Healthcare Research in the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement at AHRQ. 

Providing patient-centered, equitable and evidence-based health care is increasingly recognized

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Breaking Through 2022 Finalist: M.O.O.D. Space

Breaking Through 2022 Finalist

Now in its third installment, Healthcare Design’s Breaking Through is a conceptual design competition that encourages industry members to forget the traditional rules and restrictions of healthcare design to answer the challenges anticipated for the future of healthcare delivery. Four finalists made it to the finale that took place at the 2022 HCD Conference + Expo in San Antonio and presented their concepts to the audience during a keynote session.

Concept: M.O.O.D. (Multisensory Oasis On-Demand) Space
Team: Perkins Eastman
Team representatives: Shayne Piltz, architectural designer, and Bhavishya Venkitaraman, architectural designer

The premise: Almost one-quarter of adults with a mental illness report they can’t access the treatment they need. And while virtual platforms have gained popularity, they don’t solve for the spatial design problem of where care is received.

Most patients don’t have the expertise or resources to design a personalized therapeutic space and, more likely,

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Breaking Through 2022 Finalist: Radius

Breaking Through 2022 Finalist

Now in its third installment, Healthcare Design’s Breaking Through is a conceptual design competition that encourages industry members to forget the traditional rules and restrictions of healthcare design to answer the challenges anticipated for the future of healthcare delivery. Four finalists made it to the finale that took place at the 2022 HCD Conference + Expo in San Antonio and presented their concepts to the audience during a keynote session.

Concept: Radius
Team: CRTKL
On-stage representatives: Jim Henry, principal, director of healthcare; Darren Chen, healthcare designer; and Maria Sanchez, senior technology consultant

The premise: By 2030, there will be 133 million people over the age of 50 in the U.S. and 2.1 billion over age 60 worldwide by 2050. Add to that a shortage of 15 million healthcare workers anticipated by 2030, and the industry is facing a severe supply and demand challenge.

Meanwhile, three

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Breaking Through 2022 Winner: Bionica

Breaking Through 2022 Winner

Concept: Bionica
Team: HDR
Team representatives: Yunnan Allen, senior project architect; Brian Schaller, project designer; Adeline Morin, senior project designer

The premise: Healthcare today is rife with challenges including fixed resources, a high carbon footprint, secondary infections, stressful wayfinding, and an environment that often isn’t healing.

Recognizing this, Bionica works to avoid a narrow approach that solves a single healthcare delivery challenge by instead thinking more broadly and using advancements in modularity and mobility to solve many challenges.

It simultaneously addresses another key issue: If patients of the future were to design their own hospitals, they’d ask for healthcare services to be delivered to them.

The concept: Bionica consists of depositories of pods that connect services to patients. A patient’s healing journey begins and ends at home, with patient pods where care takes place and designed to be peaceful and infused with nature.

At the hospital,

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