For 2012 we focus on monitoring infection control in the healthcare and facility management sector, with successfully running installations in five major german hospitals (e.g. Charité Berlin and Universitätsklinikum Greifswald).
With reliable industrial partners like Lysoform, we always look for safe and cost effective solutions, thus enabling hospitals to concentrate on their main purpose.

Non-contact actuation, movement detectors and hermetically sealing doors also ensure optimum hygiene – in the theatre or intensive care. Safety aspects also play a crucial role, such as monitoring access to specific areas, controlling exit routes in cases of emergency, and preventive fire protection.

The design of all GEZE products is, moreover, modern and attractive, blending perfectly into the overall architecture of the building. GEZE offers innovative, sustainable and eye catching specific solutions encompassing door, window and safety technology that are tailored to the respective function or area of application in clinics and nursing homes, irrespective of whether they are being newly built or renovated.

GEZE is presenting a selection of extremely convenient and safe automatic and manual barrier-free swing and sliding door solutions at HOSPITAL BUILD EUROPE 2012. Come and visit us at Messe Berlin: Hall 1.1 booth D17!

more information: http://www.geze.com

For this project, VK designers and the client imposed themselves high ambitions. The result can be considered as a pilot project, as well architectural as on medical engineering plan. With open minds, innovative solutions were sought to combine and streamline various disciplines within the small space of an operating room. Therefore, new functional principles were applied: flexible preparation, ‘Grossraum “and plenary assembly in the hall will generate a specific workflow.

Revolution in the design of operating rooms
In terms of material VK choose for sustainable applications that have already proven to be sound in an international context. All this is supported by the latest medical technology developments. The combination of full laminar flow in temperature zones, wall heating and the use of ‘medical bridge’, together with the development of a number of specific innovations, lend its unique character to this project.

This realization means simply a revolution in the design of operating rooms. Firstly, the basic principles are unique, both from the users’ viewpoint as well as with regard to the technical program requirements. Moreover, technological advances have been used for the first time in this challenging environment, with the conviction that they will contribute to a better control and quality in operating rooms.

VK Healthcare
VK offers more than 60 years of experience in the design of hospitals, senior living facilities and mental healthcare. As a multidisciplinary design and consultancy office, VK integrates architecture, structural engineering and building services from the initial phase of a design on. Years of experience have taught us that an integrated concept guarantees the best results in the long term. An integrated design results in a building that not only uses less energy, it offers greater comfort and user-friendliness. A sustainable healthcare design can then enhance health and well-being. An integrated design offers value through progressive architecture and the focus on quality, safety and efficiency.

More info on: www.vkgroup.be/en/healthcare/project/operating-block-gh-saint-john-bruges

We propose to transform the citizen into a customer, for a new type of hospital, which in addition to assist with the proven effectiveness of our healthcare system, can feel at all times the center of all care, giving them all attention. This new hospital model is configured in three basic elements: efficiency, light and silence. The best about hospital architecture and the best in residential architecture.

Conceptually, the new hospital is arranged on base that gives structure to the health care units, outpatient diagnosis and treatment. Structured in three modules or parallel buildings that reflect the best hospital main structures: flexibility, expansion, functional clarity and horizontal circulations.

On this structure are arranged two units of hospitalization, two oval crown with gentle curves drawn give a different view from the depressive sensory residential forms of the rationalist “block bar”, and draw on the best of recent residential architecture: the elimination of corridors and in consequence the elimination of annoying noise, concentric circulation, light and silence around a common atrium.

Two functional concepts space: base and crown, which are linked to form a new architecture, a model that offers to the professionals the opportunity to treat and to the citizens to be treated in an environment where the natural light and the silence resulting therapeutics.

OVERALL CONCEPT
The overall concept is based on the architectural proposal for a hospital of this nature; it should allow adaptation to the requirements of the program needs, and expected financial requirements.

It has also sought to respond to the complex functional program with contemporary and attractive architecture. It has had particular regard to the human scale, solar protection and above all to distinct the patients spaces through the hospital.

The build is the result of a different point of view against to the simples and common spaces in hospital architecture. Our purpose is also give therapeutics spaces, provide and architecture that serves to he rest and recovery of the patient. “To use the architecture as a medical treatment”

DESIGN APPROACH
The design is structured on a large base, which encompasses various medical areas of the hospital, holding two volumes of glass where the ward is developed. This approach develops to a complex system of articulated spaces within three prisms that make up the base, geared to each other as if it were a machine, a “healing machine”.

In addition to the functional treatment of the base, a symbolic treatment was essential to remark the towers. The space of the patients is planned only thinking in the needs and in the best way to them to feel better with harmony and light.

From the first moment, it was determinate to have different spaces between the area of the patients and the other functional areas of the hospital, allowing in this area the relation between the green roof garden and the views from each room.

Such empowerment increases patient’s willingness to adopt actions and lifestyles that promote health, as well as improve follow-up and compliance with treatment in cases of chronic illness.

Calit Health Services (CHS) is the largest Health Maintenance Organization in Israel and second largest coordinated care organization world-wide. Through its 14 hospitals, 1300 primary and specialized clinics, and 650 pharmacies, CHS provides comprehensive medical care to the majority of Israel’s population (above 4 million members).

Three years post launch, the CHS Hybrid e-Health suite created a dramatic change both at patient’s and national levels, influencing clinical quality, efficiency, availability, accessibility and transparency of healthcare services. As of December 2011, more than 1.56 million patients use our Hybrid e-Health and mobile Health services monthly, with over 2.4 million interactions every month. From financial aspects CHS Hybrid e-Health suite yielded an ROI of 415%.

Successful implementation of an Hybrid e-Health and m-Health suite (vs. current health apps hype) is a result of exact mapping of target population needs, matched to best of breed technology means and combined with healthcare services. Successful large scale deployments of end-to-end e-Health solutions are very scarce as this tailored-fit suite demands expertise in integrating multidisciplinary knowledge – clinical, ethical, legal, technological, data security and privacy, liability, innovation, change management and more. This is exactly where our unique advantage is – we walked the talk.

The presentation will review the core components of CHS Hybrid e-Health and m-Health services, emphasizing a scalable and implementable vision, end-to-end solution and practical execution strategy.

our people
Based in our offices in Eko Park, Warsaw we are a group of architects, interior designers and graphic artists working on projects throughout Europe. As an independent studio, without stock answers, we value working with clients and other designers looking for a fresh approach to each project.

our experience
Our staff have over thirty years experience working on healthcare, commercial and residential projects in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia & UK.

our focus
Each project for 4105.eu / Plan B is viewed as an opportunity, to create something beautiful whilst resol-ving the many issues created by the building process. From the first sketch through to the final handover we are firmly committed to producing architecture that is of value – value to the investor, value to the user and value to the community. This value is measured not only in the return on capital but also in the power of architecture to lift the spirit and to enrich people’s lives. 4105.eu / Plan B approaches each architectural project with the aim of clearly understanding the client, the challenge and the context. There are no standard solutions. Each new building is the result of specific circumstances, ranging from function or location or cost, formed through a ‘co-creative’ process involving the client, architect, engineers, contractors and agents, each delivering their own expertise.

our services
4105.eu / Plan B provide a comprehensive and coordinated range of skills and services including :-
Architecture
Interior Design
Environmental Graphics
Wayfinding Signage
Product & Amenity Design

healthcare capability
Although started in the UK our more recent healthcare experience and activity has taken place in Germany and Poland. In Poland our office in Warsaw is capable of all aspects of the planning and construction procedures in Poland, with licensed local architects to carry out all legal responsibilities as required by Polish building laws. Unlike most of Europe, where healthcare planning standards are controlled and issued by the Departments of Health, in Poland the space standards and detailed layouts of departments and individual rooms are set by the hospital itself, through the use of medical consultants. This requires far greater involvement from the design team as each space and even relationships of rooms have to be agreed on an individual basis, rather than referring to national standards. These solutions are then carried forward through the standard procedures of Outline Building Permit / Environmental Impact Assessment (Raport o wpływie inwestycji na stan środowiska), Building Permit – (Pozwolenie na Budowe), Construction Project – (Projekt Wykonawczy) and Site Inspection – (Nadzór Autorski). We combine with local services engineers and statutory consultants (Sanitary, Health & Safety and Fire) to provide a full and comprehensive design service for all healthcare projects, including full interior design and signage, from concept through to handover. Our office in Poland has twelve staff, all bilingual in Polish and English. Other languages spoken are Dutch, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Contacts:
Polski – Michal Reduta  0048 691 505474
English – Simon Gregson  0048 601 265390

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Experience
The local heritage center “DIEP” and several museums help to create a responsible view of the Dordrecht themes. The renovation includes all central areas and hallways, all outpatient clinics and the newly built departments.

KuiperCompagnons was commissioned with the so-called midlife-renovation of the hospital location. With an overall quality plan, the hospital wants to improve the experience of the hospital by patients and staff, by creating a pleasant atmosphere on a human scale. The different themes of the inner city are also used for orientation. Every separate building in the complex is given a special inner city theme, like the “Van Gijn” museum, library, writers, painters and harbor relinquishing the need for using numbers and letters for orientation purposes.

Quality plan
With this renovation approach the unity, tranquility and atmosphere are brought back into the building.  And there is room for diversity, for example with the use of different furniture in the different  departments, different styles of lighting and for the Dordrecht themes. The closer the visitor approaches his destination the more playful the décor becomes. Even in the rooms for treatments and operating rooms pictures, poems and artifacts continue the story of the city center.

The corridors are shaped like alleys, while the main hallways are like streets and avenues. Patios between the buildings are decorated with green and cane, thus symbolizing the close by Biesbosch moorlands.

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The competition won in December 2011 confirms AIA’s breakthrough on the international scene and more particularly in China. AIA is the only French group which gathers all expertise of the general contracting industry in one company.
The Shenyang project follows a first hospital project won in Yantai. Its construction will start beginning of 2012.

To better answer these new projects’ requirements, AIA has opened an office in Beijing that will support the group’s future developments in China.
“The Chinese government launched a major modernization plan of its health facilities. This is a real opportunity for AIA’s Chinese development and will surely become one of our major international references. The University Hospital of Shenyang will become the first health center in Northern China by its size – eventually 1,800 beds on 320,000 m² – and its technical capacities,” says Christian Bougeard, CEO of AIA.

Gathering human, technical and medical resources within the same environment is an ambitious project that will allow the Shenyang Hospital to respond to major challenges:

• territorial challenges: the hospital will actively participate in the development of  the new town of Hunnan as it will be a facility dedicated to the collectivity;
• health challenges: the future hospital will be set in a national network of major health centers. Its services will position it as the first health center in the Liaoning region;
• social challenges: the project will have to reach today’s functional objectives and anticipate tomorrow’s evolutions in terms of care and hospital management. The new facility will have to be able to reflect and perpetuate its social dimension through its medical offer. 

The hospital is organized in distinct units with separate addresses for each specialty which are directly accessible from the street. To improve the quality of these exchanges and maintain the human scale that must be its main characteristic, the hospital immerses itself in the city’s environmental landscape, offering the town a new urban park.

All specialized clinics and major services are connected to a technical & medical platform. Its location, in the heart of the structure, shortens distances and enables direct connections with:

• the international hospital,
• the general consultations,
• the cancer research hospital,
• the cardiology hospital and the neurology hospital,
• the emergencies,
• the technical & medical platform,
• the general hospital,
• the R & D. 

“We are very proud to have won the development of the Shenyang University Hospital. This project settles us not only on the Chinese market but gives us the opportunity to be engaged in a real social challenge. We have designed this structure as a place dedicated to life, the hospital’s internal life and the external life that surrounds it. It was important for us to combine the two in a town where everything is to be created,” says Frédéric Nantois, architect at AIA in charge of international projects.

Contracting authority: Hospital #1 of the Medical School of China
Lead architect: Architectes Ingénieurs Associés
Executive Architect / Executive Design & Technical Office: CSCECNEI (China Northeast Architectural Design & Research Institute)
Surface: Phase 1: 180,000 sq.m., 1,200 beds / Phase 1+2: 320,000 sq.m., 1,800 beds.
Delivery date: summer 2013 (Phase 1)

About AIA (www.a-i-a.fr/en/)
    
AIA – Architectes Ingénieurs Associés – is a French group founded in 1971. The company combines all the expertise of the general contracting industry. AIA’s 500 employees, architects, engineers, and project managers work hand in hand in a holistic approach from the first sketches to the final delivery of a project.
From its different offices around France and China, AIA offers a wide range of competence and experiences: major projects in the service sector and urban development, healthcare facilities, environmental equipment…
AIA developed specialized studios in major and innovative urban projects (Intens-Cité), environmental architecture (AA’E) and the engineering of wood (ICM).
AIA launched in 2011 its corporate foundation, the AIA Foundation – architecture, health and environment.

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Evaluation of telemedicine services
The aim of modern telemedicine projects is to develop technologically innovative infrastructure that enables healthcare systems to offer modular and individual services, which is essential for remote care services. This high level of integration raises the requirements for the transparency of costs; for the consumers as well as for the
participating service providers.

Telemedicine also means an increasing number of participants and consequently increasing challenges to future financing and payment systems in health environments, especially for “connected hospitals”. It is necessary to connect earning models from the different health care markets, and consolidate medical, as well as non-medical – but still health related – services.

The Challenge
The implementation of billing and accounting platforms for medical services in complex health organizations requires the conceptual design and development of an integrated, automated billing of comprehensive services. This includes billing for all external contractual relations, as well as all partial services within the internal relationships of
hospitals. In accordance to the experience of other industries (e.g. the telecommunications industry) an automated and therefore cost-efficient accounting is a must for an economical composition of reimbursement processes. Additionally only this allows evaluating integrated telemedicine services in a very efficient way.

The Solution
Through the telemedicine platform the billing system allows an automatic collection of services and supports convergent charging for complex earning and payment models. It therefore allows the billing of hybrid service offerings provided within diverse cooperation business models. The flexible configuration of the comprehensive billing and accounting solution offers the possibility to charge virtually any unit. The system engine is the functional survey, the central part of the clearing engine. It is possible to handle large numbers of transactions in real-time, which allows the billing system to offer an immediate feedback. The transaction value calculation is based on a high performance mapping. This mapping uses the details of the incoming events, the identification of e.g. a patient’s card, the codes of the patient’s disease and the identification of the applied treatment and/or medications. Every mapping results in journal entries with bookings on at least two accounts (credit and debit) to exactly document such a transaction. With a normal medical treatment ticket, for example, one of the operator’s accounts will receive a credit entry, while one of the patient’s accounts will receive a debit entry. Our billing system allows an unlimited number of such double-entry bookings to be performed for one single event to smoothly account for more complex business processes, e.g. bonus points gathered due to that event. To keep track of the billing and accounting transactions in real-time an integrated Management Information System provides special accounts with aggregated bookings. These comprehensive accounts can represent different billing structures to analyze alternative business models simultaneously.