Some Happenings in Digital Healthcare Design   (published in Digital Healthcare Design)

February 16, 2010 by Brendan   Comments (0)

For those interested in exploring this field I thought I would do a bit of a summary of the key sites active in this area.  There are few activities dedicated to the application of health IT in healthcare design, however, the X3 Summit is a major conference in the US on the subject.  On the event website at www.x3summit.com  you can see  the program for this year's conference (Duke University May 5-7) and past programs.  It gives you a good idea of what is happening in this field.

 

While there is not a single site dedicated to issues around Digital Healthcare Design (if I am wrong please leave a comment on the blog...I would love to know the details)  there is a large amount of acitivity around healthcare design issues in general.  One of  the leading Australian centres active in this area is CHAA (Centre for Health Assets Australia). Associate Professor Jane Carthey is Director of the Centre and it is part of the Built Enviroment Faculty at the UNSW. They are responsible for producing the Health Facility Guidelines.  This is the publication that we want to supplement with a set of Health IT guidelines.  You can find CHAA at www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/chaa/.

 

Internationally, the major site is probably from the Health Design Technology Institute, which was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in the US.  This group has a focus on evidense based design and has some fantastic papers on the subject that can be downloaded from their site (see www.healthdesign.org ).  All this is an important foundation to the work for developing the focus on Digital Healthcare Design in Australia.

Some other intesting sites are

 

 

I will get back to you soon with some details about an event we are organising in Australia on digital healthcare design, looking at how to design a digital hospital for 2020

 

Best regards

 

Brendan