Hospitales sustentables: partidas críticas para su construcción y el rol de la inspección técnica

Currently, the public health infrastructure in Chile, at its different scales, has made important advances in determining sustainability design criteria. However, it is possible to see that, during its construction, there are no standardized verification processes on sustainability aspects, and that the work of technical inspection focuses on the administrative compliance of construction contracts, rather than on checking technical aspects. This research proposes a list of critical items and activities to supervise hospital construction, to guarantee sustainable criteria in their operation. A survey was also made to professionals involved in the design, construction, and supervision of hospital construction, ranking the results with a multi-criteria methodology (AHP), which showed a preference in the thermal envelope (20%) and thermal and ventilation installations (17%). Finally, based on the weaknesses stated by the professionals, a control and monitoring process of these items and activities is proposed, redesigning the work of the Worksite’ Technical Inspector.

Analysis of the Functional Space Area Configuration of a Large General Hospital in the Preliminary Planning Stage

The area configuration of different functional spaces has an important impact on the preliminary planning of large general hospitals. This paper takes a 2000-bed hospital in Zhejiang Province as an example to introduce the area configuration of hospital’s functional space in detail, including the main functional rooms on the ground and the underground buildings, and the area configuration is analyzed. The results show that the average construction area of hospital beds is 191 square meters, and the total area of buildings for seven facilities, underground garage, medical research rooms and rooms for medical equipment accounts for 92.4%. In the decision-making stage of hospital construction, the area configuration of these four functional spaces should be focused to meet the needs of the hospital’s operation and development.

Assessing compliance of infection prevention mitigation strategies in hospital construction and renovation

Hospital-associated fungal infections from construction and renovation activities can be mitigated using an infection control risk assessment (ICRA) and implementation of infection prevention measures. The effectiveness of these measures depends on proper installation and maintenance. Consistent infection prevention construction rounding with feedback is key to ongoing compliance.

Building the hospital Intelligent Twins for all-scenario intelligence health care (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the trend of smart hospital construction that has been cooking for years. However, there is no consistent conceptualization of what a smart hospital truly entails. A few hospitals have truly reached the status of being ‘smart’ so far, primarily failing to bring systems together and consider implications from all perspectives. Hospital Intelligent Twins, a new technology integration was first introduced by Huawei at HUAWEI CONNECT 2020, that powered by IoT, AI and cloud computing, as well as 5G application to create all-scenario intelligence for health care and hospital management.This article presents a smart hospital for all-scenario intelligence by creating the hospital Intelligent Twins.

“Let’s Go, Baby Forklift!”: Fandom Governance and the Political Power of Cuteness in China

This article describes how the Chinese state borrows from the culture of celebrity fandom to implement a novel strategy of governing that we term “fandom governance.” We illustrate how state-run social media employed fandom governance early in the COVID-19 pandemic when the country was convulsed with anxiety. As the state faced a crisis of confidence, state social media responded with a propagandistic display of state efficacy, broadcasting a round-the-clock livestream of a massive emergency hospital construction project. Chinese internet users playfully embellished imagery from the livestream. They unexpectedly transformed the construction vehicles into cute personified memes, with Baby Forklift and Baby Mud Barfer (a cement mixer) among the most popular. In turn, state social media strategically channeled this playful engagement in politically productive directions by resignifying the personified vehicles as celebrity idols. Combining social media studies with cultural and linguistic anthropology, we offer a processual account of the semiotic mediations involved in turning vehicles into memes, memes into idols, and citizens into fans. We show how, by embedding cute memes within modules of fandom management such as celebrity ranking lists, state social media rendered them artificially vulnerable to a fall in status. Fans, in turn, rallied around to “protect” these cute idols with small but significant acts of digital devotion and care, organizing themselves into fan circles and exhorting each other to vote. In elevating the memes to the status of celebrity idols, state social media thereby created a disposable pantheon of virtual avatars for the state, and consolidated state power by exploiting citizens’ voluntary response to vulnerability. We analyze fandom governance as a new development in the Chinese state’s long history of governing citizens through the management of emotion.

Using Logic Model and Key Performance Indicators to Construct A Field Hospital for Coronavirus Pandemic Cases

Background. Field hospitals have been established as part of the COVID-19 pandemic response in a range of countries including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Assess input, monitor activities and track output can be used to identify whether field hospitals are meeting their intended targets. Method. Based on a case study approach, the reported results include field hospital construction project performance outcomes, a description of the design process and the development and application of key performance indicators to assess field hospital efficacy.Result. Each of the logic model component (i.e. input, activities and output) has tailored indicators that address different aspects of field hospital; from the infrastructure work to the wider impacts on services.Conclusion. The logic model components and related KPIs can be extremely important in terms of providing insights into how to achieve the field hospital’s objectives.