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Upcoming Live Webcasts
Now more than ever,
your staff has to know the latest trends and strategies that the top healthcare
organizations are using to get projects done on time and on budget. And you
need to make this strategic learning cost effective. This live webinar
series from HEALTHCARE DESIGN magazine offers you the chance to earn one hour of
CE in the AIA’s HSW category right from your desk. No travel and no time
lost from your work. The first of our series of 2009 programs is on
Thursday. Join Curtis Skolnick of KLMK and learn how to avoid costly
mistakes in the preliminary phases of your projects.
Evidence-based
Design Meets Patient Safety
Thursday, February
26, 2009
1 p.m. Eastern; Noon Central; 11 a.m. Mountain; 10 a.m. Pacific
Description
This session will present innovative and practical facility
design concepts that incorporate significant patient safety and
quality-of-care improvements. Participants will understand and learn Safe
by Design principles as developed by the National Learning Lab in 2002. The
four areas of recommendation that we will address include:
1.
Latent Conditions
2.
Active Failures
3.
Facility Process Recommendations
4.
Safety Culture Recommendations
Multiple case studies will be presented, including St.
Joseph’s Community Hospital, Boca Raton Community Hospital, University of
Minnesota-Fairview Children’s Hospital, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Outcomes of these applications on quality and safety will be discussed,
including data from St. Joseph Community Hospital’s AHRQ grant.
Learning
Objectives
- Understand the critical background for safe
design
- Apply safe by design principles to facility
development.
- Understand the process recommendations and their
impact.
- Understand and apply safety science to facility
design, culture and process compared to evidence-based design.
About
the Speaker
John
Reiling, MBA, MHA, PhD
President/CEO
Safe by Design
Dr. Reiling has a 30 year career in health care
administration. He has been recognized as one of the “50 Health Care
Leaders for the 21st Century” by American Hospital Association. He consults
with hospitals and health systems across the country regarding facility and
patient care designs that emphasize safety, error reduction and quality.
Trends in Health
Care IT: Digital Clinical Systems & the Impact on Data Center
Management
Thursday, March 5,
2009
1 p.m. Eastern; Noon Central; 11 a.m. Mountain; 10 a.m. Pacific
Description
Join us for this unique session that looks at the
scientific research and healthcare industry demands on the mission critical
infrastructure.
Today’s healthcare and research organizations require a mission critical
infrastructure that satisfies the needs of professionals who rely
increasingly on fast and secure access to information and communications.
In the modern hospital, virtually all clinical functions are supported in
the data center. From PAC’s (digital radiology), digital pharmacy, digital
medical records, digital pathology, to doctors with wireless tablet PC’s at
the bedside, the health of the patient is tied to the reliability of the
data center. Loss of life is always at the forefront of everyone’s mind,
but downtime has other impacts as well.
Convergence of technology and tighter integrations have forced today’s
hospital data center to support non-typical application and data servers
for systems such as nurse call, infant protection, security, and clinical
messaging engines.
Planning the space and support requirements in the data center as well as
determining the correct infrastructure for delivery and access to the
information is critical.
Learning
Objectives
- The rapid deployment of digital clinical systems
is having a huge impact on the data center. What are the issues, and
how can they be addressed.
- Virtualization in the data center can help, but
how much? Projected savings can be quantified.
- There are different levels of risk related to
disaster recovery. Developing a plan for levels of DR can result big
savings.
About
the Speaker
R.
Stephen Spinazzola
Vice President and
Firwide Director, MEP Engineering Studio
RTKL
As Vice President and firmwide Director of RTKL’s MEP
Engineering Studio, Steve Spinazzola offers more than 27 years of
experience in both mechanical design and project management on corporate,
mission-critical, educational, health and science, retail, and
institutional projects. Steve holds a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering
degree from Pennsylvania State University.
Steve is a registered professional engineer in more than 30
states, and is co-inventor of an advanced data center cooling technology
that has six patents and is currently being deployed in data centers all
over the world.
If you have
questions, contact Richard Jarvis at Vendome Group 212-812-1413 for more
information
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