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Planning and Designing Healthcare Facilities : A Lean, Innovative, and Evidence-Based Approach

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Title: Planning and Designing Healthcare Facilities : A Lean, Innovative, and Evidence-Based Approach
Author: Paul Lillrank, Vijai Kumar Singh
ISBN: 1138032263 / 9781138032262
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 246
Publisher: Productivity Press
Year: 2017
Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
     
 
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The planning and design of healthcare facilities has evolved over the previous decades from "function follows design" to "design follows function." Facilities stressed the functions of healthcare providers but patient experience was not fully considered. The design process has now crucially evolved, and currently, the impression a hospital conveys to its patients and community is the primary concern. The facilities must be welcoming, comfortable, and exude a commitment to patient well-being. Rapid changes and burgeoning technologies are now major considerations in facility design. Without flexibility, hospitals face quicker obsolescence if designs are not forward-thinking.

Planning and Designing Healthcare Facilities: A Lean, Innovative, and Evidence-Based Approach explores recent developments in hospital design. Medical facilities have been adapted to the requirements of clinical functions. Recently, the needs of patients and clinical pathways have been recognized. With the patient at the center of the process, the flow of tasks becomes the guiding principle as hospital design must employ evidence-based thinking, and process management methods such as Lean become central.

The authors explain new concepts to reduce healthcare delivery cost, but keep quality the primary consideration. Concepts such as sustainability (i.e., Green Hospitals) and the use of new tools and technologies, such as information and communication technology (ICT), Lean, and evidence-based planning and innovations are fully explained.

  • Illustrates how to effectively participate in the planning and design of healthcare facilities.
  • Defines patient-centered healthcare environments.
  • Develops a strategic vision for your organization.
  • Helps prepare a goal-oriented strategic action plan.
  • Compares current design excellence strategies with traditional approaches to change.

Preface

Chapter 1 :
Introduction
Chapter 2 : Innovative, Lean, and Evidence-Based Design
Chapter 3 : Concept of a Hospital
Chapter 4 : Patient First, Functions Next, and Design Later
Chapter 5 : Green Hospitals and Sustainable Solution to Healthcare Facility
Chapter 6 : Designing a Patient-Centric Healthcare Facility Using Lean Methodology
Chapter 7 : Creating Safer Healthcare Environments Using an Evidenced-Based Design Process
Chapter 8 : Evidence-Based Design in Hospitals : Theory to Implementation
Chapter 9 : Virtual Hospitals of the Future
Chapter 10 : Redefining Healthcare of Tomorrow in Smart City
Chapter 11 : Delivering Inclusive Intelligent Healthcare by Innovative and Comprehensive e-Health System
Chapter 12 : Planning Safe Hospitals
Chapter 13 : Designing Innovative Facilities : Contamination and Security Hazards at Hospitals
Chapter 14 : Adapt or Obsolesce : The Evolution of Singapore Health System

Index

 
 
 
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