Focus: New construction

Technology helps makes Stanford Hospital safer, more efficient

New facilities features lots of high-tech, but some older systems still remain


Many new technologies have been built into the replacement Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., according to an article on the Palo Alto Express website.

If a big earthquake or a pandemic strikes, staff can add a second bed in each of the emergency department's 66-single-patient rooms, and the ambulance bay can be converted into a triage center. 

The new 900-space employee garage can also be converted for triage, emergency department staff said during a recent tour.

Intensive-care unit rooms, equipped with medical gases, can be used as operating rooms so that patients in critical condition don't have to be moved.

Read the article.



September 24, 2019


Topic Area: Information Technology


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