Digital healthcare services
The human and digital systems that underpin healthcare performance are evolving in tandem.
The impact of digital technologies on healthcare is increasingly profound and must therefore be a focus for healthcare planning and embedded in the design from inception, rather than ‘bolted on’ at a later stage. Healthcare leaders need to invest in technology that genuinely leads to improved access and quality of outcomes. We provide engineering services to integrate digital and smart health solutions into a centre’s operations. We prepare facilities for future automation, always prioritising long-term flexibility.
Our service begins by co-creating a digital vision that spans technology infrastructure and operational service goals. Whether it's streamlining administrative processes, enabling remote monitoring and care coordination, or enhancing patient safety and satisfaction, our engineering services for digital and smart health empower hospitals to thrive in an increasingly digital world while delivering high-quality, patient-centred care. With a focus on reliability, scalability, and security, we ensure that our digital and smart health solutions comply with industry standards and regulations, safeguarding patient privacy and data integrity.
For digitally enabled design, digital twins offer significant potential for enhancing hospital efficiency by integrating data from sources like BIM and sensor networks. They provide complex insights into hospital systems and spaces, enabling managers to optimise resource flows, capacity, and ward arrangements in real time while testing alternative scenarios with AI-driven outcome predictions. Spatial scenario modelling within digital twins can support decision-making for flexible layouts and support systems, ensuring hospitals operate efficiently and effectively.
Smart, innovative and a near-zero impact on the environment – the new San Diego Medical Center raises the bar for healthcare in California.
Determined to integrate into the new community as a good neighbour, the San Diego Medical Center is the fourth and largest healthcare facility worldwide to earn a LEED-HC Platinum certification from the United States Green Building Council.
Lighting typically accounts for 42% of the electricity used in a hospital building. We proposed 100% LED for the new hospital campus. Other sustainable features include a high-performance façade, photovoltaic panels, active chilled beams and an on-site microturbine-based, combined heat and power plant. Through a combination of water design strategies, including a zero-blowdown condenser water system and a sterile processing department void of one-pass cooling, the hospital is predicted to save an estimated 12,000,000 gallons of water every year in its desert home.
We incorporated a display into our designs that help care teams easily access patient details from outside their room, even across shift changes. A special camera system in some rooms allow nurses to draw a digital line around patients’ beds or chairs, providing “virtual bed rails” – so if an arm or leg strays across this virtual boundary for too long, a message will be sent to the smartphone of that patient’s nurse so that the caregiver can ask the patient to wait for help.
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We support healthcare clients across the public and private sector to respond to the pressures of this changing environment – helping them to embrace digitalisation, decarbonisation, automation and improving operational and clinical productivity. Our services span operational strategy and masterplanning, through to technical, engineering and design solutions.