Report: Building a smarter healthcare facility

There’s nothing simple about running a healthcare facility. With complex moving parts creating an operationally challenging environment, hospitals can’t afford to be inefficient or lag behind. How healthcare organizations use resources today is key to how they will evolve into the future.

The industry is undergoing a sea change. Healthcare was already working toward integrating systems for better interconnectivity and interoperability, and the COVID-19 pandemic amplified this initiative. Facilities old and new are striving to be more agile, tightly woven, and efficient. Organizations are looking to improve not just medical records, but physical operations as well, from HVAC to physical security and beyond.

But how can facility managers influence the monitoring, alignment, and management of these disparate systems? The pressure is on to move fast and increase efficiency as priorities shift during a global pandemic, even while backlogs of less-urgent procedures have slowed revenue.

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