Healthcare Design - August 2018 - 11

EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

Hank Adams

SMART DESIGN

The opportunities for artificial intelligence in care
delivery are enormous-but couldn't healthcare
design benefit, too? By Jennifer Kovacs Silvis

Carolyn BaRoss
Jody Barry

PERKINS+WILL

ADVENTIST CARE CENTERS

Jeffrey Brand
Sam Burnette

HDR

PERKINS EASTMAN

EARL S WENSSON ASSOCIATES

Sheila F. Cahnman
JUMPG ARDEN CONSULTING LLC

Thomas W. Chessum

CO ARCHITECTS

James Crispino
G ENSLER

Christine Hester Devens
THIS SPRING I attended a new healthcare confer-

ence, HLTH, in Las Vegas. There, various players
from sectors including payers, providers, pharmaceutical companies, and lots of tech providers gathered to talk disruptive innovations, all with the goal
of reducing healthcare costs and increasing quality.
One major takeaway for me is that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will most definitely be part of the solution.
Healthcare is a data-rich industry, as organizations implement electronic medical records
(EMRs) and collect countless details about who we are, the conditions we
have, the care we receive, and the outcomes we experience. That data can,
theoretically, be crunched by a computer to determine what course of treatment might be most effective for a 38-year-old Caucasian woman from the
Midwest with one child and a family history of heart disease (i.e., me). The opportunities are vast and exciting-for all of us.
Any look toward the future of healthcare and the built environments necessary to support it must keep emerging technologies like AI in mind. The entire
healthcare interface could-will-change because of them. And after taking a
sneak peek at the projects currently being evaluated by the jury for our new
conceptual design competition, Breaking Through, I can see some of you are
already considering this. (Finalists will present their ideas at the 2018 Healthcare Design Expo & Conference, HCDexpo.com).
But what about healthcare design? I can't help but think of the possibilities that may exist in this realm, too. Right now, post-occupancy evaluations
(POEs), if even conducted, yield limited results. They may inform future projects for the associated organizations or firms, or be disseminated to the industry at large via a scholarly journal or an article in this magazine.
What if we could push that further? What if every research result on the efficacy of built environment solutions could also be analyzed by computer to
determine the square footage, finishes, building systems, etc., necessary to
achieve an owner's prescribed goals for a project? In other words, similar to
my example above, could AI be used to take demographic details of a facility
and determine the design treatment most likely to achieve the best outcome
for that unique project? Why not?
I'd argue the opportunity is there. But without a "design EMR" to collect
data, we'll likely be seeing personalized medicine long before custom healthcare design. However, if there was ever a time to recognize the value of conducting research and sharing results, it's now. 

Mary Frazier

AECOM

EWINGCOLE

Jocelyn Lum Frederick
H C TANG RAM DESIGN

Catherine L. Gow

F RANCIS CAUFFMAN

Natalie Miovski Hagerty
THE CHILDRE N'S HOS PITAL OF PHILADELPHIA

Laurel Harrison

STANTEC

Suzen L. Heeley
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER

Scott Holmes
Walter Jones

BWBR

METROHEALTH SYSTEM

Julie Kent

TRINITY HEALTH

Bryan Langlands
Michael Lied
Jain Malkin

G BBN ARCHITECTS
J AIN MALKIN INC.

Mike McKay
Victoria Navarro
Don Orndoff

ERDMAN

ADVOCATE HEALTH CARE
KAISER PERMANENTE

Diane R.K. Osan

FKP ARCHITECTS

Chris Powers HCA
Andrew Quirk

NBBJ

HEALTHCARE

S KANSKA USA BUILDING

Pamela H. Redden
HKS INC.

William D. Repichowskyj
E4H ARCHITECTURE

Kim Shinn
TLC ENGINEERING FOR ARCHITECTURE

Janet H. Sisolak
UT MD ANDERS ON CANCER CENTER

Karl R. Sonnenberg
ZIMMER GUNS UL F RASCA ARCHITECTS LLP

Kurt Spiering

HGA

Steve Stokes CALLISONRTKL
Jeffrey C. Stouffer
Joseph Strauss

HKS INC.

CLEVELAND CLINIC

Paul E. Strohm
Jocelyn Stroupe

HOK

CANNONDESIGN

Joshua A. Theodore

LEO A DALY

Roger S. Ulrich
CHALMERS UNIVERS ITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Gary L. Vance

VANCE CONSULTING

AUGUST 2018

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