Jamie Beyer

About Me:

• I am from New Jersey and really stink at pumping my own gas.

• I live on campus in the GLC.

• I am currently working for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta on a Revenue Cycle project.

• I worked for a year as a business analyst for JPMorgan Chase in Manhattan.

8/21/07

Apparently I'm not very good at oragami!

8/23/07

Julia Jones's Interesting points:

• A certificate of need is required for a regulatory review process of the state to build a hospital.
• Evidence based design to impact experience

- Center for healthcare design
- designing for efficiency
- patient focused
- philanthropic
- "universal room"
- Flexible for future expansion
- Centers of Excellence

• Most doctors not employed by the hospitals, and have poor handwriting!
• self propelled beds
• COW - Computer on Wheels
• Abulatory = outpatient treatment
• General Inpatient = diagnostic

For more clarification: What are we doing for Hughes Spaulding? What have they not planned yet?

8/28/07

Craig Zimring - Environments of Healing

Evidence based medicine -> evidence based practive -> EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN physical design variables that support decision making www.healthdesign.org/research/reports Principles:

• Improve quality and saftey
• Patient and Family centered

Hospitals are too noisy!

3 zones in a room: 1. family zone 2. patient zone 3. care giver zone

hospital contruction costs ~ $300 per sq. ft

• incorporate nature, art, music
• moving control from the institution to the individual
• decentralized nurses stations
• sound absorbing ceiling tiles
• acuity adaptable rooms
• flexible spaces
• oversized, windowed single rooms
• computerized order entry
• PDAs
• HAND WASHING

= fewer falls, fewer patient transferes, less infections, reduced nurse turnover, reduced drug costs