The Modern Hospital

This book provides a comprehensive review of the modern hospital and serves as a valuable resource for hospital administrators, clinicians, surgeons, nurses, researchers, and the public who has an interest in the hospital as an industry. Early sections discuss the transformation of hospitals over the centuries, the new medical world order, the concept of the modern hospital, the academic mission of the modern hospital, and the economics of modern healthcare. The text also addresses the nine specific elements of hospital modernization, including the organization of new emergency departments, the trauma room, hybrid operating rooms, intensive care units, radiology, pharmaceutical, nutritional and, finally, patient and public relation services as essential aspects of every modern hospital. These nine elements reflect the most important and most visible indicators of modernization and transformation of the modern hospital. Lastly, this book examines the team approach as an essential component of embracing the new hospital transformation as well as specific perspectives on the modern hospital, such as perspectives of nurses, physicians, surgeons, and hospital administrators. All chapters are written by practicing experts in their fields and include the most current scientific and clinical information. The Modern Hospital: Patients Centered, Disease Based, Research Oriented, Technology Driven provides an all-inclusive review of the hospital industry and is a valuable resource for administrators, clinicians, surgeons, nurses, and researchers.

Rifat Latifi, MD, FACS, FICSProfessor and Chairman of SurgeryNew York Medical College, School of Medicine Director, Department of Surgery Chief, General Surgery Westchester Medical Center Valhalla, NY USA

The New Medical World Order: Not so flat.- Five Transformative Episodes in the History of the American Hospital.- Hospital and Healthcare Transformation over the Last few Decades.- Navigating and Rebuilding Academic Health Systems (AHS).- Academic Mission of the New Hospital: More Than Just the Bottom Line.- The Role of the Hospital in the Healthcare System.- Can Hospitals Advance Health Equity in the United States? The Influence of Technology, Economics and Policy.- The Tall Order of the Modern Hospital: Balancing Patient Care with Economics and Academic Missions. Administrator's Perspective.- The Modern Hospital: Patient Centered, Science Based.- Modern Hospitals, Airports, Surgeons, and Pilots: What do they have in Common?.- Disease-oriented Regionalization Approach: Quality of Care and Volume Above All.- Volume, Quality and Research of the Modern Hospital: The Survivable Strategy.- Precision Medicine: Disruptive Technology in the Modern Hospital.- Nanotechnology: Managing Moleculesfor Modern Medicine.- Advanced Technologies: Paperless Hospital, the Cost and the Benefits.- Newer does not Necessarily Mean Better.- The Winning Team: Science, Knowledge, Industry and Information.- Modern Hospital training Grounds- Dealing with Resident Issues in New Era.- Healthcare Provider-centered: Ergonomics of Movement and Functionality.- Ergonomics in Minimal Access Surgery.- Emergency Department of the New Era.- Trauma Room: "A minute Man" Operating room- Managing the Chaos Using Technologies.- Acute Care Surgical Services: return to Traditional Surgery as Back Bone of the Modern Hospital.- Ambulatory Surgery Services: Changing the Paradigm of Surgical Practice.- Cardiac Surgery in the Modern Hospital.- Transplant Services - The Surgery is the Least of It.- The Imaging Department of the Modern Hospital.- Intensive Care Unit Model of Modern Hospital: Genomically Oriented, Biology Based.- Surgeon of the Modern Hospital.- The Solo Surgeon in the Modern Hospital.- The Role of Hospitalists in a New Hospital: Physician's Perspective.- The Nurse in the Modern Hospital.- Wound Healing: Proof-of-Principle Model for the Modern Hospital- Patient Stratification, Prediction, Prevention and Personalisation of Treatment.- Home Healthcare Services as an Extension of Intensive Care Unit.- The Hospital of the Future-Evidence Based, Data Driven.- Embracing the New Transformation Through Team Approach.- Patient-Centered Care: Making the Modern Hospital Truly Modern.- The Architecture of New Hospitals: Complex, Yet Simple and Beautiful.- Patient's Perception is the New Reality: The intersection of multiple stakeholders and their experience and perception of your organization and why it matters.- Surgical Volunteerism as an Extension of Modern Hospital: Serving one Patient at a time and Building Bridges.- The Human Cost of Modern Hospital and Healthcare.