Gallery: What Would the Ideal Hospital Look Like in 2020?
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Integrating screens into the architecture makes it easy to put vital information into contextually appropriate locations, rather than being confined to tiny monitors or lo-res printouts. *Image: NXT Health*
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While the concept is inherently futuristic this full-sized prototype shows that many of its elements are feasible today. *Photo: NXT Health*
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In the NXT proposal, the patient's dinner table would flip over allowing them to control the lights, review their progress, call for help, and maybe pass the time playing a few games of *Angry Birds*. *Image: NXT Health*
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The hospital room of the future embeds sensors and displays into the furniture and walls reducing the need for manual record keeping, minimizing errors, and optimizing quality of care. *Photo: NXT Health*
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In addition to traditional lifesaving equipment, the hospital room of the future also addresses a patient's mental state by altering colors of light to improve moods. *Photo: NXT Health*
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The shower has two doors that can open wide enough to accomodate a patient in a wheelchair, but look like they belong in a trendy townhouse. *Photo: NXT Health*
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The vision of touchscreens surface mounted into the walls was beyond the scope of the prototype room, but the clever folding mechanism keeps them out of sight until needed. *Photo: NXT Health*
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Integrated sensors in the bathroom can collect and display vital biometric data that is difficult, or just gross, to capture conventionally. *Image: NXT Health*
