Smart Hospitals Speak Your Language
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The El Camino Hospital in Silicon Valley has opened a new facility making it possibly the most wired hospital you can find.
The $480 million, state-of-the-art facility takes full advantage of new technologies, ranging from a wall-to-wall wireless network, to patient beds with built-in translators for 22 languages, to robots that move around the hospital carrying medical supplies and patient meals. Robotic devices help doctors perform surgeries and electronic lifts help get patients into beds safely.
There is also a Genomics Center as part of the facility. The state-of-the-art, seismically sound acute care center has health care business intelligence capabilities based on the Amalga technology from Microsoft. By aggregating ambulatory and inpatient data in a common data store, the Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) delivers a cross-care continuum view of the patient without requiring clinicians to learn multiple systems or requiring IT to maintain multiple systems.
Now that is one smart hospital.
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October 24th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Ilike smart hospitals especially the ones with smart people in them but those are far and few between
October 28th, 2009 at 11:58 am
That hospital sounds phenomenal. I wish we had one like it in our area.
October 30th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Definitely a high tech place. But aren’t all those connections interfiring with hostipal aquipment??
November 1st, 2009 at 8:10 am
nice story, thx a lot, I just discovered English written blogs, to improve my English.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:05 am
This sounds like a really high tech hospital. Hopefully it will be an example for other hospitals and this high-tech trend will catch on. -Rob
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:31 am
I hate hospital personally and the smell of drugs but still it cures a lot of people so its something we should respect.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:41 am
That does sound pretty cool. The idea of translators is an excellent one, because being in hospital is bad enough but if you don’t speak the language it must be particuarly bad. Just shows how technology can be used to benefit all
November 5th, 2009 at 4:46 am
its amazing, this is new technology that can make people happier.
November 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Sounds great. My only hope is that the reliance on technology is not too great. In a real emergency situation (magnetic pulse or natural disaster) the hospital will be swamped. Surely there are emergency protocols for working in a lower power environment.