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Strategies for Healthcare Real Estate Development

Posted by Guest Contributor on Feb 17, 2015

As the medical and healthcare industries continue to evolve, there are strategies that a Health System's developer/real estate representative and architect can utilize to help the System remain on an.....READ MORE

Topics: developer, Medical Office Building (MOB), Ambulatory Care

Data Visualization - Informing and Influencing Healthcare Architecture

Posted by Guest Contributor on Feb 13, 2015

Within the architecture profession, creating, receiving and generating data is a daily task. Ambulatory Surgery Facility Assessments, for instance, have the potential to generate large sets of data...

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Topics: data analysis, Healthcare

The Evolving Processes of Lean Design and Construction

Posted by Guest Contributor on Feb 10, 2015

Concurrent with completing the largest Ambulatory Surgery Center on the East Coast, I had the opportunity to present our success with Building Information Modeling at the 16th Annual Lean...

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Topics: Knowledge Sharing, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Lean Design

Simulation in Healthcare Architecture Series #2

Posted by Laura Moran on Feb 05, 2015

What do you need for a high-quality simulation model?

In my previous post, “What can simulation do for your health system?” I highlighted some of the merits of performing discrete event simulations......READ MORE

Topics: Discrete Event Simulation, Healthcare Planning

Teaching Architecture at Pratt - Rewarding for Students and Professor

Posted by Guest Contributor on Feb 02, 2015

As an architect, leader and managing director of Array’s Northeast practice, I find myself in a daily position of teaching and sharing my knowledge & experience with others. In fact, at the end of...

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Topics: Knowledge Sharing

Healthcare Change is Here and It Is Happening Rapidly

Posted by Noah Tolson on Jan 27, 2015

At Array, we focus exclusively on the design of environments to support healthcare. This specificity presents interesting challenges these days – as the world of healthcare continues to change in.....READ MORE

Topics: Continuous Improvement, Management Series

Simulation in Healthcare Architecture Series #1

Posted by Laura Moran on Jan 20, 2015

Recently featured in the Society for Health Systems' March 2015 Newsletter

What can simulation do for your health system?

Discrete event simulation is a powerful analysis tool that allows users to.....READ MORE

Topics: Discrete Event Simulation, Healthcare Planning

Ambulatory Surgical Centers Assessments

Posted by Guest Contributor on Jan 15, 2015

Health Systems looking to lease space in office buildings for Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASC) cannot assume all buildings will comply with the zoning and healthcare codes and use requirements. A...

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Topics: Ambulatory Care, building codes, Facility Design

Keeping Respect at the Forefront - A Lesson in Lean Healthcare

Posted by Guest Contributor on Jan 11, 2015

Respect.

That’s my key takeaway from the one-week Lean Healthcare West green belt training I attended in Greenville, South Carolina. Specifically, respect for the patient, their family and all the.....READ MORE

Topics: Lean, Green Belt, Continuous Improvement

Environmental Graphic Design: Transforming a Space into an Experience

Posted by Guest Contributor on Jan 06, 2015

Environmental Graphic Design (EGD): What is it exactly?

Wikipedia defines EGD as a design profession embracing many design disciplines including graphic design, architecture, industrial design and...

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Topics: Design Approach, Environmental Graphic Design

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