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How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love My Robot Doctor
October 2017 ∘ Webinar

This webinar highlights the macro factors shaping these realities, along with an in-depth exploration of the various impacts of and opportunities for design. Remember doctor’s visits when you were growing up? The wooden tongue depressor. The well-worn stethoscope. As design harnesses digital, materials, and networking technologies, a very new health experience is just over the horizon. Proactive, lifestyle design, tracking real-time health data, non-invasive tools and custom “just for you” treatments based on your actual genome, are here. 
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Analysis and Simulation: Improving Team-Based Primary Care Design
October 2017 ∘ Webinar

This webinar will summarize the newest research evidence about how design can improve the delivery of team-based ambulatory care, discusses new metrics being delivered jointly between the Military Health System and Georgia Tech, and discusses how to design for a system with a wide spectrum of purpose-designed healthcare buildings and retrofits of older medical facilities.
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Life Cycle Thinking: Energy and Human Health
September 2017 ∘ Webinar

This webinar provides an overview of global green building trends, including benchmarks such as LEED v3 + v4 and BREEAM. The presenter delves into the building product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and product transparency via a variety of market based tools, all with a focus on energy and the impact on human health. Participants also hear about global green building trends in three different countries and various case studies.
EBD Journal Club

Toward a Framework for Designing Person-Centered Mental Health Interiors for Veterans
October 2017 ∘ EBD Journal Club

Toward a Framework for Designing Person-Centered Mental Health Interiors for Veterans, Journal of Interior Design, DOI: 10.1111/joid.12095
Tool

Design for Behavioral and Mental Health: A Universal Approach & Benefit Analysis
February 2018 ∘ Tool

Design interventions to improve well-being for patients with behavioral and mental health (BMH) conditions will often have impacts on other populations, as well (e.g., staff, visitors, non-BMH patients who use the same facility). This tool will help you consider those broader impacts and incorporate them into an evidence-based process for a universal design approach.  
Interview

Understanding the Unique Design Needs of Behavioral Health Facilities, an interview with James Hunt, AIA, NCARB
February 2018 ∘ Interview

Inside you will learn about: why behavioral health facilities have very different design requirements than general hospitals; how different areas of a behavioral health unit have different safety needs that influence design choices; and which types of safety measures and products should be incorporated into behavioral health units.
Interview

Using the Design Process to Create Safe and Comfortable Behavioral Health Environments, an interview with Francis Murdock Pitts
February 2018 ∘ Interview

Inside you will learn about: why relationships are at the heart of successful psychiatric treatment strategies; how effective designs can facilitate positive interactions between clinicians and patients; and the benefits of using a community treatment model that allows patients to access services in carefully designed “neighborhood treatment malls.”
Interview

Exploring the Relationship Between the Built Environment and Behavioral Health, an interview with Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, M.Arch, D.Arch, EDAC
February 2018 ∘ Interview

Inside you will learn about: the challenges in identifying best practices in the built environment for behavioral healthcare; where architects and designers can start when working on projects for behavioral health facilities; and the differences between behavioral health and medical settings.
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How Can a Design Firm Launch an EBD Initiative?

September 2017 ∘ Webinar

This webinar will share strategies for getting started, sustaining, and growing EBD within a firm. Design Researchers from a small and medium sized firm will share opportunities and challenges they encountered to describe lessons learned while launching an EBD initiative within their respective firms.  
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Safety Risk Assessment
September 2017 ∘ Tool

The Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) Toolkit is:

a proactive process that can mitigate risk a discussion prompt for a multidisciplinary team an evidence-based design (EBD) approach to identify solutions.

The SRA targets six areas of safety (infections, falls, medication errors, security, injuries of behavioral health, and patient handling) as required in the FGI Guidelines.

WHY USE THIS SRA?