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Hospital Emergency Preparedness Must Cover the Basics of Infrastructure...
When hospitals are confronted with a health emergency episode, the capacity, availability and resilience of physical infrastructure systems are often assumed as ready and with unlimited capacity....
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5 Reasons Hospital Emergency Resilience Extends to Facility Systems Preparedness
The mission-critical nature of hospitals and healthcare facilities requires that stakeholders build their business around a philosophy of high availability of services. At the physical level this...
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How Building Automation Systems Help Deter the Spread of Infection in...
Jeff is the Executive Vice President of Wadsworth Solutions, a Master-level BMS EcoXpert In U.S. hospitals, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that healthcare acquired infections (HAIs)...
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How Smart Environmental Controls Become a Critical Success Factor for...
Within hospitals and healthcare clinics, a built environment that is designed to maintain safety and comfort plays an important role in aiding patient recovery. The controls that regulate environmental...
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4 Ways Digitization Helps Healthcare Facilities Adapt to the New Normal
The coronavirus pandemic is fundamentally changing how we all live, work, and play. From socializing to education to work, every major realm of life is going digital, in some cases, indefinitely. In...
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Partnerships helped us fight COVID-19. They can help in the climate battle, too
As we emerge from this unprecedented global crisis, it is useful to reflect upon how we can build a more resilient and sustainable future for our planet. During this pandemic, I have noted the...
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Hospital Resilience: 7 Ways Smart Systems Can Help
As the recent pandemic that has gripped the world in the past several months makes strikingly clear, hospital resilience—its flexibility and adaptability in trying circumstances—matters as never...
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Connectivity Ecosystem marks two years of innovation amid pandemic
The coronavirus has turned the world upside down. As the World Economic Forum recently pointed out to major hospitality brands, “Prior to COVID-19, you were a hotel company that had safety protocols....
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Think Remote Operations to Build Hospital Resilience
In the last blog post of this series, we explored the notion of hospital resilience as a core strength in preparing health systems to meet future extreme demands — the current pandemic serving as a...
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Building a future-ready, resilient healthcare ecosystem
Uncertain situations and crises highlight the importance of using emerging technologies and innovations in healthcare systems. To build a future-ready healthcare ecosystem, it is crucial to ensure a...
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Hospital Resilience and Power Reliability: What Health Systems Need to Know
Vital in every sector, power reliability is literally a matter of life and death in medicine. As healthcare providers know, a power outage or interruption affecting an ICU, surgical theater, procedure...
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A vision for sustainable, resilient, pandemic-era buildings: Here’s how we do...
These days, I’ve been thinking about what our chairman and CEO, Jean-Pascal Tricoire, often says: “When it comes to climate change, I’m neither an optimist nor a pessimist: I’m an activist.” I think...
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Pandemic Highlights Need for Holistic Hospital IT-OT Cybersecurity
A cyberattack that shut down critical systems at Brno University Hospital, a large COVID-19 testing facility in the Czech Republic, was one of the earlier and more visible instances of healthcare...
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Co-work in India: What is expected to change
As the world adapts to the new normal in almost every aspect of life, buildings especially the commercial buildings are no exception. Smart and connected building technologies were already buzzing in...
View ArticleHow Building Automation Systems Help Deter the Spread of Infection in...
Across the world, healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) remain the common adverse outcome in health-care delivery. Hundreds of millions of inpatients are affected, with 7% in developed countries and...
View ArticleHospital resiliency during a pandemic—Expert Insights
Healthcare providers have always been concerned about resiliency and preparedness for when disaster strikes and technology disrupts. But the global pandemic has created some unprecedented challenges...
View ArticleSchneider Electric and Planon’s extended partnership is a key step towards...
Schneider Electric and Planon will jointly invest in research and development to deliver a suite of smart services to digitalize the building lifecycle for both existing and new buildings. This... Read...
View ArticleHealthcare at the Edge: Reduce your spending and improve patient satisfaction...
In the midst of a global pandemic, government spending on healthcare has skyrocketed; the Australian Government budget recently set aside a record $115.5 billion for essential health services. But,...
View ArticleHow to boost hospital building safety and asset maintenance
In recent blog articles, we’ve been exploring facets of hospital resilience as they relate to facility management systems and infrastructure. In our view, these aspects of resilience are the most......
View ArticleHow Digital Solutions Help Hospitals Create Flexible Building Spaces
The coronavirus pandemic has globally opened the eyes of healthcare organizations to the need for greater flexibility in how their facilities are designed and configured to utilize space–not only to......
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