Bill Crounse, MD, is responsible for working with industry partners and healthcare organizations to help them benefit from using Microsoft technologies and solutions as an essential platform for line-of-business applications in the healthcare industry. Dr. Crounse travels nationally and internationally to evangelize the use of information technology as a way to improve care quality and safety, and the satisfaction of those who provide and receive it.
Dr. Crounse is known locally and nationally for his work in medical communications. He has written dozens of articles Microsoft Healthcare and Life Sciences and is the primary contributor to Microsoft's Health Blog. Dr. Crounse wrote Healthscape, a weekly column on medicine and information technology, for the Eastside and South County Journal newspapers. He has been a medical writer/editor for the Microsoft Corporation's employee Intranetsite, and was Medical Editor for KIRO-TV, Channel 7 (CBS) in Seattle. He has also served as a physician broadcaster and medical editor for KOMO-TV (ABC Seattle), ABC Network News (The Health Show), Lifetime Medical Television (Physicians Journal Update), The Discovery Channel, and Medical News Network.

Topic:
Five Healthcare Trends and the Impact within the Built Environment

Content:
Hospitals of the future will live or die by their adoption and integration of technology. The healthcare industry will attempt to leap frog 25-years into the future from their current state in only 10 short years. This has a huge impact on the success of healthcare facilities projects that will be constructed anytime within the next 10 years. As architects of these facilities, it is important to understand the implications of technology on the built environment and how to best create beautiful spaces that also enable the delivery of exceptional care in a new era ushered in by the technology revolution.

Dr. Bill Crounse will present and explore the five major trends within healthcare that are driving changes within the built environment, which include increasing personal responsibility, the "retailization" of healthcare, commoditization, information everywhere movement, and globalization. Dr. Bill Crounse will then translate this transformation within healthcare to meaningful counsel to the architectural community. Dr. Bill Crounse will articulate how these trends alter the design and need for space within MOBs, hospitals, and long-term care facilities. He will also discuss the shift in design within facilities that will include concepts such as Command Centers, and the fully electronic OR, ICU, and immersive patient experience. Lastly, Dr. Crounse will describe the anticipated results delivered to both the patient and caregiver through the creation of healing environments enabled through technology, created by the architect.
This is a very unique speaker and topic to explore. We at TEECOM Design Group are extremely confident that this speaking engagement will be highly attended and of great interest and relevancy to the architectural, engineering, and owner community. Please forgive our inability to provide some of the data requested, as the healthcare trends of future are not yet measurable.