Healthcare faces a number of major challenges. Building the hospital of the future in the right way is perhaps one of the most demanding. Cost-effective healthcare facilities that harness new technologies while meeting the needs of patients are high on the wish list in many regions. Sirona is helping to drive this development.
Building tomorrow's hospitals is one of the biggest challenges in healthcare. Sirona has extensive experience and knowledge in hospital development. Johan Hilm, Senior Manager at Sirona, shares some key lessons for success.
- In the past, there was a set approach to building hospitals. Today, we have to find new solutions and more or less reshape the role of the hospital in society. One of the biggest challenges is that the country is slowly but surely undergoing a demographic change," says Johan Hilm.
There are more and more children and elderly people in society, while the working-age population is shrinking. As a result, the need for care is increasing while the number of people who have to bear the costs is decreasing. An impossible equation without changes to the healthcare system.
- We need to find a new structure where patients can receive care at the right level. For example, many of those seeking care in emergency rooms could receive a good medical assessment remotely or through a health center.
There is a strong ambition to find ways to care for patients at home or in hospital with a simpler level of equipment. We are already seeing how digitalisation is providing new solutions for this. But it also places high demands on the functionality, speed and flexibility of healthcare providers. The public wants to recognize themselves in their fast-paced digital everyday life also in healthcare.
This has major implications for what investments in hospitals should be made and the risks of making the wrong investments. But careful analysis of citizens' needs and the consequences of changes in healthcare delivery provides the opportunity to build right. Something that should be done flexibly and in phases to follow developments.
- Sirona has supported both small and large regions in several hospital refurbishments and new builds. We are experts. By creating an understanding of how care development looks in combination with analyzing today's flows and resource utilization, it is possible to get far. Together we will build the smartest hospital of the future!
