Medical Futurist March 23, 2023
If your imagination could run wild, how would you envision the future of hospitals? Hi-tech big machines, physicians analysing data obtained from patients’ devices, LED screens greeting visitors by their names using facial recognition, virtual patient visits, and robots leading operations… Well, experts have pretty much the same idea. Recently, we have written a lot about the future of hospitals. We emphasised the importance of good design both inside and outside the point of care. We imagined that these institutions will become “health centres for patients for preventing diseases, for acute care patients and for patients who need surgical procedures or large radiology machines.”
The following points about the ideal hospital might sound utopistic or even naive; however, each...