"Trends We’re Seeing in
Health Care Facilities" (c) Health Facilities.net (11/06)
 | Watch for an upsurge in construction of non-primary-care clinics and
medical facilities. The University of Alabama notes a trend where
primary care physicians are increasingly choosing to leave hospitals and
traditional medical practices to work in clinics and facilities that
offer noninvasive procedures, such as cosmetic surgery, dermatology and
radiology. Even as new hospital construction is booming nationwide, the
next trend will be to smaller, more specialized facilities operated by
entrepreneurial doctors. |
| Hospitals will soon be putting patients’ medical records online.
Miami Children’s Hospital started doing it recently for its cardiac
patients, thanks to a secure software built by a Coral Gables-based
company, Teges Corp. Patients can go online to view a summary of their
hospital stays and prescriptions. The advantage: Patients can view their
records in their most up-to-date, real-time form, as well as share them
with other doctors. Since the records contain proper medical
terminology, outside doctors can immediately understand what they are
dealing with. A separate server handles patient access. It erases the
medical records (which remain on another server) when patients are done,
thus assuring security and confidentiality. |
| Transition planning is becoming a staple in new construction and
relocations. Many hospital administrators have methodically and
conscientiously built new facilities only to find at the end of their
orderly process that they didn’t take into account how to move everybody
seamlessly from the old place to the new place. Where should nurses
park? Where will the new HR department be? Which elevators should
doctors take to reach radiology? More and more hospital planners are
turning to professional transition planners. |
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