Design Trends in Healthcare Technology

Many hospitals are opting for new bed towers or are building replacement facilities to accommodate the demand for private patient rooms and to meet the service changes that have come about since the last hospital building boom in the 1950s. Hospitals are feeling pressure for increased technology in these new structures and the design trends are reflecting a response to these pressures. Across the country, hospitals are asking "can technology support the goals of today as well as the goals on the horizon for tomorrow?" such as increased patient safety, patient satisfaction, productivity and real-time clinical information availability. The answer is YES!

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the trends and applications of technology in hospitals today along with those being planned for tomorrow.
• Review multiple technologies that can provide support for hospital goals and consumer demands.
• Identify specific applications of technology that can be integrated to provide the efficiency required for health care in the future.
• Discuss a case study from the initial design to the delivery of technology for a total replacement facility - Thompson Peak Hospital, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Presented By:

JoAnn Chapple
Senior Clinical Consultant
Smith Seckman Reid, Inc.

JoAnn Chapple is an RN and a Senior Clinical Consultant with Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. (SSR), an engineering design and facility consulting firm. She has over 40 years of experience in the health care industry including nursing, communications technology and information systems for healthcare. She has worked on projects for The John Hopkins Hospital, Children's National Medical Center and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Prior to joining SSR Chapple was CIO for Life Point Hospitals, managing Information Systems and Telecommunications for 27 acute care hospitals.

Amy Raber
Medical Communications Consultant
Smith Seckman Reid, Inc.

Amy Raber is a medical communications consultant for Smith Seckman Reid, Inc., an engineering design and facility consulting firm. She has over eight years of experience in health care telecommunications and technology design for commercial, industrial and institutional buildings. She was the project manager for the communications and technology design for Lake Hospital, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Thompson Peak Hospital. Raber has written articles for Health Facilities Management and Maintenance Solutions.

Jim Cramer
Vice President & CIO
Scottsdale Healthcare

Jim Cramer has been in the healthcare information management field for over 25 years. His professional career has included 14 years of information technology consulting and 15 years as a CIO. Jim's experience includes numerous strategic planning projects, system selections, contract negotiations and a wide variety of financial and clinical system installations.

As Vice President & CIO at Scottsdale Healthcare in Scottsdale, AZ since 1991, he has multi campus responsibility for information services, telecommunications, health information management and medical transcription. Scottsdale Healthcare was named a "Most Wired" Hospital in 2001 and 2003 by Hospitals and Networks magazine. Prior to joining Scottsdale Healthcare, he was employed with Ernst & Young for four years. During that time he became a Partner and had responsibility for the Healthcare IS practice in the West region. Previous to that Jim was employed for 10 years by Andersen Consulting as a manager and consultant.

He has presented at the annual and local HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society) conferences as well as a variety of user group conferences. He co-authored a chapter titled "Adapting to consumer-driven health care" in the 1999 HIMSS Book of the Year, Agility in Health Care. Jim has served on McKesson's Strategic Advisory Council for more than ten years. He is actively involved in InSight (McKesson User Group) and has served as President, as well as a Charter Member of CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives).

Jim obtained both his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and his Master of Science in Industrial Administration from Purdue University.

Continuing Education:

• This program meets the requirements for CHSP Continuing Education.