Posts about Healthcare

How Data Analysis and Simulation Modeling Are Improving Emergency Departments

CRTKL’s Jared Lange discusses the OPEX team’s visit to Taikang Xianlin Drum Tower Hospital With recent policy changes, China has experienced a healthcare boom and is growing at a rapid pace. The total number of hospitals has significantly increased over the last decade from approximately 18,700 in 2005 to about 27,600 in 2015.[1] That being […]

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Learning the Language of Sustainability

How to wade through the alphabet soup that is sustainability acronyms. Sustainable terms and acronyms seem to be multiplying by the day. In addition to LEED (Leadership in Energy Efficient Design), there are many other certification programs like WELL, 3Star, BREEAM, DGNB, Dubai GBRS, Estidama and SKArating that evaluate sustainability in different project types and […]

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Telemedicine: Checking In and Checking Up

CallisonRTKL’s Steve Juett explores how telemedicine brings hospitals into the future. In a day and age in which video conferencing and immediate informational transfers are the norm, telemedicine has become a buzzword that just won’t quit. Processes like gathering patient vitals, collecting symptoms and diagnosing simple problems have become increasingly automated—and they can now even […]

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Do It For The ‘Gram: How Instagram is Changing the Design Industry

The digital and physical worlds are colliding. How will social media platforms influence the way we design spaces? When planning for my upcoming trip to Europe, I did something interesting—something that betrayed exactly how much of a stereotypical Millennial I am. I googled, “most Instagrammable places in Amsterdam.” My parents would most certainly scoff at […]

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