JHD Editorial – Widening the lens: Clinical perspectives on design thinking for public health

November 25, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff, Design for Patient Safety, Design for Resiliency

Peer-reviewed publication

Publication: The Journal of Health Design
Publication Reference: Vol 5, No 3 (2020): The Year Like No Other
Authors: Bassin BS, Nagappan B, Sozener CB, Kota SS, Anderson DC

Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has created opportunities for innovation, ingenuity, and system reengineering. The next big investment in health care should be intentional and embedded partnerships between clinicians, designers, and architects who can collaborate to help solve health care’s greatest challenges.

“We think it is time to support a paradigm change and advocate for healthcare’s next big investment: intentional and embedded partnerships between clinicians, designers, and architects with dedicated resources to ensure an effective collaborative environment to help solve healthcare’s greatest challenges.”

Read the full editorial HERE.

Listen to the podcast with the authors HERE.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

A New Peace of Mind – a podcast episode on the changing meaning of security in 2020, including our health

September 22, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff, Design for Patient Safety, Design for Resiliency

Presentations

Title: A New Peace of Mind
Podcast: Pacific Content
Date: September 22, 2020

Episode Summary

2020 has been a year of instability and upheaval, so it’s no surprise many of us have been especially focused on our security. And that comes in many forms – securing our health, our homes, our finances, and even our digital lives. We used to talk about ‘safety in numbers’ – but during the pandemic as we’ve been in quarantine and isolation, we’ve had to rethink what security looks and feels like today. In this episode, hosts Shannon Murphy and Erin Shea explore how this need for fortification has been accelerated by work-from-home orders and lockdowns, and how this year has changed our idea of security for good.

Episode Notes

In this episode, hosts Shannon Murphy and Erin Shea explore how this need for fortification has been accelerated by work-from-home orders and lockdowns, and how this year has changed our idea of security for good.

Featuring Dominic Lester, Jefferies’ European Head of Investment Banking, and Ramin Safai, Jefferies’ Global Head of Information Security.

Also featuring:

Christian Cerda is the CEO of Simplisafe.
Thomas Smyth is the founder and CEO of Trim.
Diana Anderson is a “dochitect,” a MD and M.Arch who specializes in the design of healthcare spaces.

Listen to the full podcast HERE.

Podcasts

JHD Podcast – Widening the Lens: Clinical Perspectives on Design Thinking in Public Health

August 20, 2020 / Dochitect / Design for Clinical Staff, Design for Patient Safety, Design for Resiliency, Evidence-Based Design

Presentations

Title: “Widening the Lens: Clinical Perspectives on Design Thinking in Public Health”
Podcast: The Journal of Health Design
Date: August 20, 2020

The Health Design Podcast · Benjamin Bassin, MD, EDAC

The COVID-19 pandemic has created many stressors and challenges across all levels of low to highly resourced health systems. However, it has also shown the incredible number of opportunities for innovation, ingenuity and system re-engineering. This team believe it is time to support a paradigm change and advocate for healthcare’s next big investment: intentional and embedded partnerships between clinicians, designers, and architects with dedicated resources to ensure an effective collaborative environment to help solve healthcare’s greatest challenges.

Read the full editorial article HERE.

Podcasts

The Intersection of Architecture/Medicine/Quality and the Clinical Nurse Specialist: Designing for the Prevention of Delirium

December 2, 2019 / Dochitect / Design for Geriatrics, Design for Patient Safety, Evidence-Based Design

Peer-reviewed publication

Publication: Clinical Nurse Specialist (The International Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice)
Publication Reference: 34(1):5-7, January/February 2020
Author: Anderson, Diana C.; Jacoby, Sonya R.; Scruth, Elizabeth Ann

Excerpt:

“We call it the delirium room,” my colleagues would say about a hospital room where, anecdotally, it was noticed that more patients tended to become delirious. I went to visit it—the door squeaked with each swing, there was minimal daylight with the window view being a neighboring wall, and the room faced the constantly noisy nursing station.What insights can architectural design provide toward our understanding of delirium and models of care?

What if “the delirium room” did not incite delirium but instead prevented and even treated it?

Read more about Delirium and Design HERE.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Architectural Armor: Preventive Biocidal Surfaces

October 23, 2017 / Dochitect / Design for Patient Safety, Evidence-Based Design

Letters to the Editor

Publication: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, Letter to the Editor
Publication Reference: 2017, Vol. 10(5) 162-164
Author: Diana C. Anderson, MD, MArch, Ken Trinder, Kate Mitchell, and Erica Mitchell
View Article

Excerpt: Currently, there are two materials that qualify as preventive biocidal surfaces. Copper and copper alloys are one material. There is now an additional material that suspends cuprous oxide in a polymer, resulting in an equally efficacious substance that can be used both as a slab and as injection-molded shapes. Distinguishing itself from copper alloys, the cuprous oxide in a polymer looks and feels like any other synthetic quartz surface with a smooth, natural stone appearance, without rusting or oxidizing, and fabricates like any other hard surface, with lower cost implication.

For more information, read more about EOS Surfaces here.

Click here to read this Letter to the Editor, in which the evidence of Preventive Biocidal Surfaces is explored.

Letters to the Editor, Peer-Reviewed Publications

Designing for Patient Safety: Best Practices to Reduce Medical Errors

September 27, 2016 / Dochitect / Design for Patient Safety

In The News

Event: C3 US-Arab Business & Healthcare Summit
Location: Union League Club, New York, New York
Date: September 27, 2016

About: The C3 U.S.-Arab Healthcare Summit is an annual event with the goal of developing bilateral solutions to address global healthcare challenges.

Excerpt: National and regional quality and safety strategies regarding patient treatment, patient safety and costs include actions for building knowledge about quality problems and solutions, and actions for planning and implementing solutions at different levels of the health system in order to deliver effective healthcare services. These strategies must target the needs of the population at large, with emphasis on poor and marginalized (vulnerable) populations, which have poorer access to care. Effective quality and safety improvement is the result of many activities using systematic methods over a period of time. The development of tailored strategic plans and interventions plays an important role in creating conditions to stimulate and guide the various stakeholders to improve quality of performance and resource use.

Patient Safety Panel:
Designing for Patient Safety: Best Practices to Reduce Medical Errors
Dochitect participated in a panel discussion in order to speak about healthcare design as it relates to patient safety, infection control practices (for example sink design) and imagining the hospital of the future.

Can architecture affect our health?

Can we prevent disease using architecture?

“The architect is like the physician… he must simply see to it that what he does makes everyone feel better.” – Herman Hertzberger, Dutch Architect

Click here for more information on the agenda and overview of the speaking panel on patient safety.

Panel Discussions