Healthcare Design - December 2014 - 10

MONITOR
Top 5 takeaways of 2014
Healthcare Design regularly checks the pulse of the industry by inviting

fect healthcare quality.-Sheila Bosch, director
of healthcare research at Gresham, Smith and
Partners (Tampa)

healthcare design professionals to share what's on their minds and why, via
our Take 5 column. This year, we heard from healthcare planners, CEOs,
designers, architects, and more on a range of topics, from branding and
population health to technology and building resiliency.
As we head into a new year, we offer some of the most intriguing ideas and
issues that were top of mind for our Take 5 subjects in 2014.
1. Big data and healthcare design
research
Clients routinely ask us to demonstrate
that our designs have been associated
with improvements in efficiency or effectiveness. But a design firm can conduct
only a small number of rigorous studies in
any given year. If we could extract facilityspecific benchmarking data from building
information models and performance data
from health systems, perhaps we could
apply analytic techniques to increase our
understanding of how design decisions af-

2. Getting registration right
The first three to five minutes of the patient
experience are critical to the overall impression
of a health system. For this reason, patient
registration is becoming an increasingly important topic. This process requires solutions
that accommodate technological challenges,
operational implications, staffing requirements,
and experiential considerations in order to
create the unique experience that each health
system strives to achieve.-Michael Lied,
principal and director of healthcare for GBBN
Architects (Cincinnati)
3. Using monitoring technology to improve service
All the monitoring technology used in a healthcare environment provides limitless potential to

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