What Would The Ideal Hospital Look Like?

If your imagination could run wild, how would you envision the future of hospitals? Hi-tech big machines, physicians analysing data obtained from patients’ devices, LED screens greeting visitors by their names using facial recognition, virtual patient visits, and robots leading operations… Well, experts have pretty much the same idea. Recently we wrote a lot about the future of hospitals. We emphasised the importance of good design both inside and outside the point of care. We imagined that these institutions will become “health centres for patients for preventing diseases, for acute care patients and for patients who need surgical procedures or large radiology machines.”  The following points about the ideal hospital might sound utopistic or even naive; however, each one has already been implemented in a hospital somewhere in the world, proving it’s indeed not some dreamy speculation. The need for speed On The Medical Futurist Patreon channel, Kimberly Powell, VP of NVIDIA talked about how NVIDIA could build hospitals in a matter of days. Ms. Powell went on about how NVIDIA envisions hospitals. She added, “hospitals will use A.I. cameras to automatically screen for elevated body temperature, use genomics sequencing to predict how lethal a virus or suspected condition could be for each patient, use A.I. in medical imaging for detection and predicting clinical outcomes, incorporate A.I. into everyday cameras and microphones to monitor and i...
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