SMART HOSPITALS
Case Study Ankara Hospital’s path to smart transformation
Ankara City Hospital in Turkey offers a powerful demonstration of the transformative power of digitalisation in healthcare. The hospital embarked on a journey to build one of the world’s most modern smart hospitals, and with nearly 13,000 staff members supporting 100,000 patients and visitors weekly, its infrastructure demands are immense. The hospital’s floorspace covers
1.3 million square metres, housing nearly 4,000 patient beds, 700 intensive care units, and 131 operating theatres. The transformation project took a comprehensive approach to digital transformation, addressing critical infrastructure systems such as energy supply, fire protection, HVAC, lighting, access controls, and CCTV.
Using Siemens’ Desigo CC
platform, the hospital achieved seamless integration of these critical sub-systems, ensuring optimal operational efficiency and patient experience across its vast campus. Desigo CC serves as the central nervous system, monitoring and controlling 22 sub-systems, and almost 800,000 data points. Automation implemented
throughout the hospital not only saves energy costs, but also improves staff productivity. This integrated approach to infrastructure management is scalable, offering benefits to facilities of all sizes and configurations.
Siemens Smart Infrastructure said: “Through collaborative efforts and innovative implementation of technology, hospitals can redefine the future of healthcare, and create a world where true patient- centric care is not just a goal, but a reality.”
Automation implemented throughout the Ankara City Hospital not only saves energy costs, but also improves staff productivity.
theft. Condition-based monitoring of critical plant enables foresight of potential failures, and enables routine maintenance to be prioritised.
Better monitoring and management of energy consumption Finally, better monitoring and management of energy consumption and costs can drive sustainability gains and help management teams – including in estate management – meet environmental Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). For hospitals looking to save money, improve performance, and maximise the use of limited resources, digital transformation can seem like an obvious and attainable solution. However, the journey towards building a smart
hospital is fraught with challenges, and success is far from guaranteed. According to research by Deloitte, over 70% of digital transformation initiatives fail, highlighting the multi-dimensional complexity in delivering the schemes effectively. The challenge begins with the nature of existing
hospital infrastructure, which typically consists of a patchwork of technologies accumulated over years, if not decades. Alongside this, hospitals often encompass
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a network of buildings and campuses, each with their own pre-existing systems. The difficulty of navigating these disparate systems is often compounded by the rapid pace of technological innovation, which can render today’s solutions obsolete tomorrow. As a result, digital transformation teams often find themselves grappling with underwhelming outcomes, increased costs, and missed opportunities for improvement. Taken together, these factors mean that there can be no one-size-fits- all solution. Every facility must establish its own unique transformation roadmap that takes into consideration the specific infrastructure needs of each building. However, when it comes to implementing and executing this digitalisation plan, there are three essential ingredients in achieving success.
The three drivers of digital transformation success The first vital piece of the puzzle is to develop a realistic understanding of the true scale of the challenge. The journey to creating a genuinely operational smart healthcare facility is a multi-stage process that begins with building a solid, interoperable foundation, onto which solutions can be added over time as needs change.
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