HealthTech September 11, 2020
Reimagining clinical environments is a key part of handling the pandemic — and any hurdles that come next.
Hospitals have always been places of healing, and the challenges of COVID-19 further underscore the value of evidence-based design to ensure care and continuity. This practice relies on empirical data to inform changes that better position physical and technological infrastructures to handle an evolving pandemic.
Simply put, buildings can protect our health.
A focus on design as a determinant of health has emerged in recent months — with insights and action plans moving beyond architects who conceive these spaces. Increasingly, people working in public health, health IT and clinical care delivery acknowledge and want these measures in place.
The scale of the...