http://www.smohanty.org/Publications_Journals/2016/Mohanty_IEEE-CEM_2016-July_Smart-Cities.pdf

This paper referred to smart healthcare and smart hospitals (page 6)

Thank you for sharing Nesreen Hassan. Have you seen hospitals with all or some of those characteristics?

All the characteristics, personally not! there is a huge technology resistance from the managers/professional doctors. But NHS in UK applied several services electronically which facilitate the smart healthcare concept for example: choose and book system for outpatient clinic appointments, electronic health record, patient centered-care, smart phones app., e-prescription and e-referral.

Yes, agree Nesreen Hassaan. Gradually, shall move towards that direction (at least partially).

I think that one of the features of such a hospital may be specialization in the treatment of a given disease. Often hospitals associate us with large and crowded places. Meanwhile, a specialized hospital may or may not occupy a large area.

You can also rely on prof. R. Herzlinger from Harvard University:

"Can there be a workable market for expensive, curative services—with patients paying the bill? In some places there already is. Managed care advocates often point to the Mayo clinic as an example of cost-effective medicine. They ignore the fact that most of Mayo’s customers are fee-for-service patients. What Harvard University professor Regina Herzlinger calls “focused factories,” providing highly efficient, specialized care, are becoming a reality. These health care businesses deliver lower prices, lower mortality rates, shorter stays and higher patient satisfaction. For example, the Johns Hopkins Breast Center is a focused factory for mastectomies. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, is a focused factory for heart surgery. The Pediatrix Medical Group, which manages neonatal units and provides pediatric services in twenty-one states, is another example. Focused factories also are cropping up around the country to provide cancer, gynecological and orthopedic services. One spectacular success story is Dr. Bernard Salick, a kidney specialist who has become a millionaire by pioneering a national chain of round-theclock cancer clinics. Patients on their own can already take advantage of these emerging markets. Indeed, some focused factories are advertising directly to patients. In a New York Times Magazine advertisement, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center boasted “the best cancer care anywhere” and described how its specialists saved a life after doctors at other hospitals had given up hope”. (J.C. Goodman, G.L. Musgrave, D.M. Herrick, Live at risk, p. 248).

In addition, according to my opinion, such a hospital will be very open to cooperation with private entities financing access to medical services: insurers, medical networks or charitable institutions. It can also be an important center on the map of medical tourism. The range of such a center should be international.

It is not only about technological issues, but also about economic and institutional issues.

Thank you for the sharing. An interesting perspective. I agree that it shouldn't be about technology alone, but it is far beyond that.

important feature of a smart hospital also are that the machines can communicate with each other and with human, digitization of information/data and machines store it. From there it can produce insight through big data.

Its a hospital where everything should be smartly operated !!!

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Dr Kamath Madhusudhana

A smart hospital is not always the one with recogize people, instead, it is the one that know-how to manage the financial aspects of a hospital.

In my humble opinion, a smart hospital is a hospital that acts or becoming an assistant to its practitioners and its patient

Smart hospitals address the increasing complexity of managing today’s healthcare environments. On the one hand, healthcare organizations are under pressure to deliver quality patient care while improving clinical outcomes and operational efficiency. Not forgetting that a typical “healthcare facility” comprises many buildings and a variety of systems including data, networks and building technologies (such as heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, lights, and lifts, amongst others). Specialized systems such as video surveillance, card readers, emergency power source monitoring add to the complexity.

A smart hospital should be built with an accurate understating of the needs of its medical staff and patients. Also, a smart hospital needs to adequately handle different challenging scenarios including pandemics. Characteristics of a smart hospital include people, technology and space. For example:

• Digitalizating processes to optimize workflows within the hospital and enhance collaboration across different departments. Smart technology could help ensure the right teams are activated quickly and operating theaters are ready immediately, thereby improving patient survival rates.

• Using smart technology to better manage a hospital’s resources. Smart washrooms solution, which tracks usage and replenishment of consumables and monitors air quality, could be implemented to ensure high standards of hygiene within the facility.

• Improving time and space management with smart solutions to ensure public safety in hospitals. Intelligent logistics robots could handle and process medical waste, thus reducing exposure and risk of transmission to humans.

For smart hospitals to work, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. It takes a complex integration of myriad technologies — that is, having systems “speak” to one another while absorbing and reacting to data. Disparate clinical, IT and facility technologies including heating, ventilation, cooling, energy, fire prevention, nurse call, patient wards, operating theaters, security, telephony and others have to come together for smart hospitals to work.

Finding the right systems integrator partner is key to realizing the full potential of smart hospitals. For example, Johnson Controls, a global provider of building solutions and technologies, has supported the building of smart hospitals around the world. For more information, please visit:

https://www.johnsoncontrols.com/en_sg/solutions-by-industry/healthcare