Despite nearly two decades of quality improvement in healthcare and in evidence-based design, U.S. healthcare remains too dangerous, costly, and stressful. This session discusses a growing collaboration between the Johns Hopkins’ Armstrong Institute and Georgia Tech SimTigrate Design Lab. This collaboration focused on rigorous methods, clear metrics for patterns of care, transparent reporting of outcomes, shared sources of data and tools, and simulations and field tests of innovative solutions. Its learnings point the way toward systems approaches for patient safety in the ICU and how to effectively incorporate integrated technology, process, and physical design of spaces and devices.

• Learn the key requirements necessary for superior patient- and family-centered care in ICU and inpatient hospital rooms.
• Obtain metrics for measuring design to achieve requirements.
• Present findings in an actionable format.
• See how research can be effectively applied in a healthcare design project.

Panelists:
Adam Sapirstein, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine; Director, Division of Adult Critical Care Medicine; Co-director, Surgical Intensive Care Organization; Director, Division of Adult Critical Care Medicine; Johns Hopkins Medicine
Craig Zimring, Professor and Director, SimTigrate Design Lab, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology