Health care Industry

In this series, Healthcare Design asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject. Chuck Richmond is the senior vice president and operations director for Lendlease’s healthcare group (New York). Here he shares his thoughts on futureproofing infrastructure, advancements in construction technology,…

An unknown author commented that “if necessity is the mother of invention, desperation is its father.” As I reflect upon the year 2020, it is unequivocally highlighted and underscored as the most significant year in my lifetime thus far regarding the healthcare industry’s response to the desperation generated by the coronavirus. In terms of the…

Reenita Das is partner and senior vice president for transformational health at Frost & Sullivan. This article was co-authored with Chandni Mathur, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan. The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history. It has impacted the fabric of our society and life – but…

The Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.) and healthcare system RWJBarnabas Health are planning a new cancer treatment pavilion in New Brunswick, N.J., to significantly expand service offerings to people living in a state with one of the highest rates of cancer. In New Jersey, approximately 50,000 new cases of cancer are…

Cedars-Sinai wanted to relocate its flagship Samuel Oschin Cancer Center (Los Angeles) from the basement of its main hospital and create a more soothing space with a sense of community for its cancer patients. That goal was realized when the center was moved to a spacious, light-filled setting on the seventh floor of its Advanced…

Elliot Health System (Manchester, N.H.) was looking to create a comprehensive cancer center that incorporates the existing radiation oncology services housed at Elliot Hospital in Manchester, in an environment inspired by the healing effects of nature. The 22,000-square-foot Solinsky Center for Cancer opened in August 2020 on the Elliot Hospital campus and consolidates chemotherapy, radiation…

The recent SolarWinds breach presents a range of critical security issues for government agencies, healthcare organizations, government agencies and major companies in other industry verticals. SolarWinds produces a variety of popular IT infrastructure monitoring solutions and the breach it suffered resulted in compromised files being introduced into updates of these monitoring solutions. These monitoring solutions…

At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% drop in hospital admissions and an average annual savings of nearly $8,000 per patient. The future will see chronic disease being…

The pandemic has given us, among other things, a new buzzword: the “next normal.”  As health systems adjusted to dramatic increases in virtual visits, they experienced a steep learning curve in a very short time. Some of this shift to virtual care will be permanent. A significant percentage of ambulatory care will never return to…

2020 was a year like no other and the first signs of impending trouble were in December 2019 which is when the first reports of a new pandemic emanating in Wuhan, China, became public. The rest is history and indelibly etched in every human on earth as we have witnessed a year of disruption and change…