THIS AIN’T YOUR GRANDMA’S HOSPITAL

Stanford Medicine X, September 17, 2016Joan Saba, Healthcare Partner, NBBJ

John SanGiovanni, Co-Founder, Visual Vocal

Each year….

Average annual out of pocket spending per family for insurance

Average annual spending per hospital

Total amount spent each year on hospital construction

The total costs for healthcare in America

$6,200$164 million

$97 billion

$3.2 trillion

How do we know we’re spending the

right amount?

How do we know we’re getting

the best value?

Patients want a healthcare system that is:

Humane

Integrated

Communicative

Responsive

Clinicians want a work environment that is:

Personalized

Flexible

High-Performance

Healthy

Many healthcare organizations are trying to improve care and reduce costs and help deliver better and more targeted care

$97 billion

Why?

Hospitals are complex.

Offices Hospitals

Supplies Employees Customers Patients Families Providers Medication

Supplies Information Equipment Instruments

Regulatory Discoveries 24/7Technology

Cantilever

Parametric

Generative

Negative space

Diagrammatic

Banal

Charrette

Architecture has its own language

and it can be confusing

Architects deal with complex visual data sets such as renderings and drawings.

But getting those files into the hands of clients is difficult not only because of their size, but also because they are not often legible to people outside the profession.

Design Hospitals

COMPLEXITIES

Enter VR

Productive

Collaborative

-BUT-

LimitedParticipants

Time zoneConsiderations

BroaderParticipation

Responses areDocumented

-BUT-

LowerFidelity

Meeting Email

more inclusiveand efficient

than a MEETING

more immersiveand enjoyablethan an EMAIL

We are focused on filling the massive gap between meetings and email…

Current Design Process

Schedule internal meeting

Internal design meeting

Finalize preliminary drawings

Schedule design review meeting with stakeholders, meet and provide edits and repeat

Schedule internal meeting

Internal design meeting

Finalize preliminary drawings

Upload to Visual Vocal, stakeholders can review at their convenience and provide feedback to inform future drawings

Visual VocalDesign Process

1-2 User Groups of providers and

patients

Virtually endless user group

Distributed to any location and any

time zone

Benefits

Makes the design process more inclusive and fun

Increases collaboration between the architecture firm and its clients

Saves time & money by reducing the number of meetings required to come to a design consensus

THANK YOU!Stanford Medicine X, September 17, 2016

Joan Saba, Healthcare Partner, NBBJ

John SanGiovanni, Co-Founder, Visual Vocal