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Editorial
. 2017 Oct;24(5):1-6.
doi: 10.21315/mjms2017.24.5.1. Epub 2017 Oct 26.

The Future Hospital: A Business Architecture View

Ariffin Marzuki Mokhtar  1
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Editorial

The Future Hospital: A Business Architecture View

Ariffin Marzuki Mokhtar. Malays J Med Sci. 2017 Oct.

Abstract

The future hospital is a resilient, physical learning facility featuring digital enhancement and leveraging an ecosystem of platforms for the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytics, achieving patient-centric care delivery via multidisciplinary healthcare provider teams coordinated to meet patients' medical, psychological, social and economic needs. It exists in a just ecosystem that assimilates the care spectrum from healthy living, the prevention of disease to acute care and the rehabilitation of patients recuperating from illnesses. It will take some time for these future hospitals to be built or for current hospitals to evolve and/or transform, but efforts to spread wisdom among the stakeholders, healthcare providers and patients must start now. The development of the digital components can also begin today, as can competency building for the healthcare providers who will be staffing these future hospitals, ensuring that they are equipped with competent staff employing patient-centric care processes that cater to patients' current and future needs.

Keywords: business architecture; future hospital; information communication technology; information system; patient safety; technology.

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