Acoustic Management in Medical
There are many sounds specific to medical and healthcare environments. These range from patient/ doctor interactions, equipment functions and visitor conversations just to name a few. While these noises correlate with beneficial activities, noise transfer in medical and healthcare facilities is an unwanted side effect and an issue commonly overlooked during the planning and development […]
Four Steps to Your New Animal Hospital
Most animal owners say that their pet is part of their family. Taking a cosy spot on the couch or on their very own bed in their favourite spot, endless fetches for the ball or cuddles on your lap; they eagerly demand all the love and affection that any other member of the family needs. […]
Funding Your Healthcare Fitout
Your ambitions are to begin your own healthcare practice or to refurbish your existing; we find the number one question amongst our clients is “how much will it cost?” and secondly, “how do I access the funds to make it happen?”. Keeping your space on-trend with the latest designs and technological advances can aid in […]
Does Good Design Affect Patient Experience?
A patient can experience differing outcomes of their recovery due to the environment around them. There is no difference between a new medical space that provides all the flexibility of a blank canvas or an existing space that needs some revitalisation and additional functionality. From a design perspective, the common denominator here is the application […]
Concierge for Healthcare?
The next big thing is coming to healthcare design and that is the introduction of concierge desks to work alongside the main reception space in your clinic. According to Best Upon Request, hospital concierge can help raise satisfaction scores, streamline patient flow, elevate clinical efficacy, and decrease clinician burnout. To determine if this might work for your […]
Healthcare and the Rise of Digital Disruption
Healthcare and the Rise of Digital Disruption Many contemporary challenges face healthcare systems, including the rise of technological and digital disruption. With this exponential rise and evolution of modern healthcare technologies, it is essential that health facilities incorporate a design and construct approach which prepares for, and embraces, the change. With that being said, there […]
Trends in Practice Design
What Trends can be Beneficial to Your Practice? In today’s day and age, healthcare professionals are increasingly becoming more aware of the importance of design and how the physical environment can contribute to healing and improved recovery times. Because of this, Interite Healthcare Interiors predict an exponentially greater adoption of multidisciplinary designs when designing healthcare […]
Challenges of Practice Ownership: Staffing
Challenges of Practice Ownership: Staffing Over the past two weeks we have explored various challenges that practice owners are faced with. The challenges we have discussed so far have been the industry competition and compliance, with this three-part series wrapping up with the common challenge of staffing. Staffing “Staffing” itself is a very broad challenge […]
Challenges of Practice Ownership: Compliance
Challenges of Practice Ownership: Compliance Medical practices and centres face many different challenges, like any small business. Some of these challenges are common throughout each industry, and others are industry specific. Compliance and Accreditation Healthcare centres and practices come with a long list of compliance requirements. In a highly regulated and high-risk industry, such as […]
Challenges of Practice Ownership: Competition
Challenges of Practice Ownership: Competition No matter whether you are a small business owner or a practice owner and operator, there are issues that can be faced if there is no appropriate planning. Medical businesses are not exempt from the issues other businesses face, and with some insight into the three main types of issues, […]