DESIGN CONCEPTS Alvaro Gonzalez Embry – Architect
Taking a look at hospitals of the future
While there are many possible issues to discuss relating to medicines of the future, from the point of view of science, the most important one is the further development of knowledge and biomedical engineering. Today companies have the slogan ‘sell more intelligence and less matter’, encouraging the development of imagination.
In the short-term, the development that is already bringing new technology advances to medical equipment is a revolution in the use of robotics and medical telemetry. The range of robots already developed include master/slave robots intended for applications in radiosurgery. These are able to self- assemble inside the human body. They include nano robots that are able to navigate the human body to facilitate diagnosis and surgical treatment. This was unimaginable just 20 years ago. Today these interventions are minimally invasive, high-precision, safe and fast.
Undoubtedly, the next generation of
robots will be even more precise, allowing diagnosis, procedure and rehabilitation to become even more efficient, further increasing the life expectancy of the population. Research centers, clinical laboratories and pharmaceutical companies will not be left behind in the search for drugs to develop antidotes to fight infectious agents that are becoming increasingly rebellious and immune to treatment, as well as to help improve the quality of people’s lives. Medicine will have new challenges – not only because of the emergence of new diseases but also due to the problems of looking after an ageing population. Our increasingly ageing population will generate increased clinical demands to look after an increasing number of patients with chronic conditions.
Telemetry clinics Telemetry clinics are currently the subject of cautious development. Remote surgeries supported by virtual pavillions. Although there is a clinical responsibility regarding interventions to resolve some complex issues
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‘Our increasingly ageing population will generate increased clinical demands to look after an increasing number of patients with chronic conditions.’
regarding the use of telemetry clinics, in the medium-term these problems will be resolved and such clinics will become an integrated part of the development processes of the hospital of the future. However, it is important to note that any medical or
Alvaro Gonzalez Embry
Alvaro Gonzalez Embry took Architectural Studies at the School of Architecture and Planning at the Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile, gaining an Architectural degree in 1974.
He has over 20 years’ experience in the development of hospital projects. He joined ABWB in 2001 as Associate Architect. For the past 10 years he has designed around 400,000 m2 Chile and internationally.
clinic, both in
He was a founding partner of the Chilean Association of Architecture and Hospital Specialties AG (AARQHOS).
surgical intervention directed by remote specialists will imply a high cost. It will be a facility that will allow interventions directed by medical specislists, without the need for the patient to travel to the specialist, who could be anywhere in the world.
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