Today’s healthcare facilities are complex environments that must support many diverse functions. Understanding that diversity and aligning operations to manage it, is the key to efficiency, according to an article on the CE Report website.
In healthcare; efficiency should be related to patient census and surgical procedures. An appropriate measurement might be energy intensity per patient hour. Once the performance metrics are understood, a facility manager can start to look at ways to align building systems with the work product, patient care.
Because healthcare facilities must adapt to changing dynamics of patient care, a flexible, open system to manage infrastructure systems and data is required, the article said.
The key to managing of a fluid environment to understand who, what, when and why resources within the facility are being utilized.
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