A H E A LT H Y I N T E R S E CT I O N :
T E C H N O LO GY A N D M E P
D ES I G N I N H E A LT H CA R E
MEP and Technology design for healthcare facilities
were some of our fastest growing services of 2017 and
we expect 2018 to be no different. The U.S. healthcare
market is rapidly expanding and continuously
transforming, which means that designing flexible,
care-enhancing and energy efficient systems with the
latest technology, is more important now than ever. We
spoke with P2S Senior Technology System Designer, John
Kacperski, and Healthcare Engineering Group Leader,
Mikhail Fuks, to get their thoughts on current and future
MEPT design trends and the areas in which MEP and
Technology design overlap in the healthcare market.
What types of technology systems do you design for
healthcare facilities?
JK: I design voice, data and wireless networks, patient
and guest Wi-Fi, PA systems, media displays and patient
entertainment systems. We also design IP backbone that
ties to radiology system interfaces, system monitoring for
gases, environmental monitoring and controls security
surveillance, doctor’s dictation systems, nurse-call
systems and telemetry interfaces.
Have healthcare facilities followed the same trend of
IP converged systems and analytics as other facilities
have?
JK: Healthcare facilities actually set the trend of
adopting IP converged systems and that’s because of the
government mandate to adopt Electronic Health Records
(EHR) to create interoperability between healthcare
facilities.
MF: A system like Kaiser has hundreds of medical
facilities. You may live near one location, but also visit
another location because it’s closer to work. Or you
may have an emergency and need to go to the closest
facility to you at that moment. Before electronic records,
medical records were pieces of paper kept safe by
providers. A practitioner would have to call to get those
records faxed and it would take some time. During that
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