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The Tradeline BLOG is an online exchange of quick bits of breaking information, intelligent “briefs”, promising technologies, emerging trends, HOT concepts “overheard” at Tradeline conferences, and some rare, practical stats that will help you keep tuned to the capital projects and facility management profession.
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A trend in academic medical centers.
Some leading-edge projects are going with plans that are putting research, education, and care all together on one floor. It is a trans-discipline, collaborative thing, especially where the program calls for team consultations on test-based decision-makin...
| | 12.15.07
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Factors that influence space needs.
Two big building-shaping program issues for academic medical center buildings are vibration-free areas and outside light. Imaging will be a very big deal for health research, teaching and clinical care – plan for power, IT, and space accordingly. Be...
| | 12.14.07
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Marketing is key.
Build medical teaching buildings with a marketing eye to impress students, parents, and donors. This means investing in a high degree of curb appeal (including landscaping) and first impact when entering the building (front door and lobby).
- From ...
| | 12.13.07
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Strategies for success.
To make a new additional remote campus successful, take a leadership stance by putting your strongest program at that site first. Also, in forging transportation linkages for the distributed campus problem, work on all options – vans, bikes, ride-sh...
| | 12.12.07
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An efficiency tip.
You can cut a lot of time out of otherwise lengthy capital project decision-making by posting the results of project meetings on a local Web network to the larger project constituency. Then if you don’t hear anything back from anyone, assume you can...
| | 12.11.07
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Implementing a morning stretch.
You can actually create a positive team spirit among site construction workers and at the same time reduce job-site injuries by instituting a short daily morning “stretch and flex” exercise program. It works, and it is totally consistent with ...
| | 12.11.07
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A management perspective.
As AMC programs become less departmental and more collaborative, the question of who “owns” buildings with respect to operations and maintenance becomes a real management issue. No clear “owner” who has financial control will ...
| | 12.10.07
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A business management perspective.
To create a truly integrated enterprise, it needs to operate on an integrated financial and business model. That includes having the major entities report to a single head; having open, transparent financial planning; and training department chairs, vice ...
| | 12.10.07
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Plan for a robust infrastructure with desktop video conferencing.
The almost universal forecast is for more IT and data systems for data generation, data transmission and handling, modeling, scientific computing, and remote video access. Plan for a big investment in a robust IT infrastructure. For technology planning fo...
| | 12.9.07
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New programs for new sciences.
One view of how medicine will be practiced in the future leads to the elimination of medical education courses in the classic disciplines in favor of genomics, cell biology, organ physiology, and even social, community, and family environments. Many new m...
| | 12.8.07
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Academic medical science building planning.
A “universal grid” theory seems to be emerging for academic medical science building planning that says that an optimal planning cube is an 18ft floor-to-floor height and a 30’ x 30’, or 31’6” x 31’6”,...
| | 12.7.07
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Create momentum for initiatives by partnering with other institutions.
To overcome potential town-gown pushback on institutional initiatives, form alliances with other health-related groups to avoid being a one-institution voice and to create an overwhelming force for change.
- From Tradeline’s Academic Medical Cente...
| | 12.6.07
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Options for medical education.
Academic medical centers are being tasked to move from medical teaching to competence testing. This requires significantly more data collection and simulation functionality. There is a great deal of interest in re-thinking, updating, and expanding simulat...
| | 12.6.07
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Aim for the results that count.
For performance metrics of success for AMC initiatives, think big – the numbers of lives saved and the number of people whose health has been improved. These are the results boards, the public, and donors are looking for. Make them part of...
| | 12.5.07
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Recruiting and performance.
Leading academic medical centers are changing the way they recruit – now recruiting teams instead of individuals. This also has a big facilities and space planning impact. With your existing staff, encourage professionals in each of the th...
| | 12.4.07
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The demand for connectivity.
Almost all medical schools either are, or soon will be, building a distributed health infrastructure, and firms like Microsoft are very interested in this market for the electronic connectivity that distributed campuses will require.
- From Tradeline&rs...
| | 12.4.07
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The forces that will shape the future.
A good way to get key people to start thinking and talking about a long range plan is to start a dialog on four types of forces that will shape the future: 1) the demand for health services, 2) the technologies that will be available, 3) the nature of the...
| | 12.3.07
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Pandemic planning is under way.
The CDC solicited public input via a Web-based dialogue on the issue of vaccination prioritization in the event of a flu pandemic. Experts say chances of a deadly worldwide outbreak of flu are increasing. The United States Department of Health and Human S...
| | 12.3.07
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Create real estate value with academic medical center initiatives.
Intellectual property has become a big deal. There are many examples of academic medical center-spawned patents being spun out into new company creation. If AMCs are getting financial payoff from Intellectual Property spin-offs, why not get a share ...
| | 12.3.07
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A new sustainability standard for existing buildings.
The U.S. Green Building Council unveiled the LEED-EB Operations and Maintenance standard in October of 2007. A sustainable certification system for existing buildings, LEED-EB Operations and Maintenance features a decrease in program prerequisites,&n...
| | 12.2.07
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