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This paradigm shift in expectations is fuelling hospital architecture design & planning for
transforming hospital services from ‘healthcare’ to ‘human care’. Consequently,
healthcare providers must rethink the concept of care-delivery to pay utmost attention
and priority to patient needs.
Prevailing Trends
Currently some key trends are revamping the entire spectrum of hospital infrastructure
and management. Therefore, future hospitals must be thoroughly equipped for
Increase in volumes of outpatient care and decrease of in-patient volumes
Reserving hospitals for catering to needs of mostly acute-care patients
Distantly monitoring less critical patients or those with lifetime chronic ailments
with healthcare sensors, wearable diagnostic devices and telemedicine
Increasing rise of consumerism and requirement of retail clinics
Redesigning and aligning the care process proactively for enhancing patient
experience and delight
Ensuring extensive collaboration and co-ordination between all healthcare
stakeholders to improve standards
Indeed, Futuristic Hospitals are meant to be truly optimistic and life giving spaces that
facilitate ‘patient empowerment’. Though this gives a boost to healthcare industry, both
hospital architecture and hospital infrastructure planning must fully adapt itself to
accelerate this goal.