Morris A. Stein BArch, Moderator: Nothing to Disclose

Carlos L. Amato, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Katherine Margaret Richman MD, Presenter: Spouse, Employee, Agfa-Gevaert Group

John T. McGarry, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

1) Identify strategic master planning initiatives to address ACA impacts as well as innovative future delivery of care models. 2) Describe how technology trends such as mobile health, cloud computing, big data, inteligent patient models, intelligent infrastructure and patient empowerment will affect future physical radiology department designs. 3) Demonstrate the benefits of parametric master planning and why it will radically change the traditional design process commonly used today. 4) Understand parametric planning and simulation modeling to objectively evaluate and compare department functional organizations, staffing models, efficiency and patient throughput.

Every hospital and outpatient center faces several common and overlapping challenges: limited space, growing demands for efficiency, finite resources and increased patient volume.  Master planning for Radiology is more than simply technology change or squeezing more inside existing space.  This refresher course will describe how using strategtic planning, physical design and functional organization all best contribute for a modern reinvention of master planning.  The same clues that large institutions are using globally are valuable for radiology specific planning. 

Stein, M, Amato, C, Richman, K, McGarry, J, Think Inside the Box: Combining Strategy and Design to Re-invent Radiology Master Planning (Sponsored by the Associated Sciences Consortium) (An Interactive Session).  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14000883.html