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Articles by Patricia Nobre
Designing Better Patient Experiences in the Age of AI
As AI reshapes healthcare, listening to patients and communities keeps the focus on the human experience of care. Community of Hope Family Health & Birth Center, Washington, D.C. Photo by Todd Mason. I keep thinking about something a labor and delivery nurse told me during a visit to Methodist Dallas Medical Center. She was describing how she builds trust with Black patients: pulling the curtain for privacy, adjusting the lighting, positioning the bassinet just so.
Test, Don’t Guess: A New Approach for Healthcare Design
Healthcare leaders are modeling multiple futures before breaking ground — shifting from fixed bets to flexible strategies. For decades, healthcare facility planning meant investing millions in a single “best” design and hoping it worked. But what happens when your best guess is wrong? Today’s reality is sobering: inpatient stays have dropped 19% while outpatient visits have surged 31%.
Leveraging Predictive Analytics to Navigate Uncertainty in Campus Workplaces
Predictive analytics is rewriting traditional campus planning rules, allowing institutions to design spaces that expand and contract with actual demand patterns. Universities face a critical space equation: how do you design for departments that need 40 workstations one month and 15 the next? How do you serve teams that experience 250% enrollment-period spikes without wasteful over-capacity during quiet times?
Designing for the Convergence of Science at The Engine
The Engine enables scientists, engineers, academics, and business leaders to collaborate under one roof. In contrast to the older model of compartmentalized specialization, today’s science is interdisciplinary. Advances in science, technology, and funding models over the past 50 years have created an opportunity for a blended approach to discovery. This postmodern model has led to a number of innovations that are greater than the sum of their parts.
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