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Digital Imageing and the Future
By Tom Leonidas Jr.
The use of digital imaging technologies in patient care is constantly
evolving as new digital equipment and modalitiesoffer increased image resolution for diagnostics,treatment and intervention. As technologies shift, healthcare facilities must make major capital investments to upgrade equipment, as well as provide new infrastructure to support it. The impacts typically seen are in power distribution and data infrastructure support, which typically need to be up-sized. There is no ‘silver bullet’ in the design of infrastructure that can totally accommodate any and all equipment changes, as each manufacturer is unique. However, it is possible to address some of the major shifts in digital equipment and build in capacities to easily accommodate those changes.
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Revolution
to evolution
LEED 2009 primed to set
new benchmarks
By John Fendley
When introduced by the United States Green Building Council in 2000,the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System sparked a revolution. Today, this green measurement system is acknowledged as having had a dramatic influence on the approach to designing, constructing, and operating buildings in the United States. As a tool to determine what constitutes a green building, LEED has become a standard measurement for rating the environmental performance of buildings using six categories: sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality and innovation, and design process.
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The Garden Hospital
Today’s cutting edge
green facilities use
natural settings to
promote healing and the
environment
By Dennis McFadden
More than simple intuition, this factis based on results confirmed by numerous academic and industry studies. Not surprisingly, evidence shows that access to nature reduces stress associated with the typical clinical environment and has a positive healing effect on patients. Perhaps what should be surprising is how far the modern hospital has diverged from the 19th century roots of the building type which supported healing through natural processes, focusing on gardens, views of nature and abundant natural light.
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