-- People Focused, Clinical Environment Optimized
HEFEI, China, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- On May 24, 2012, the “People Focused, Clinical Environment Optimized” seminar was held in the Anhui Provincial Children’s Hospital by Philips Healthcare. Delivering technologies that allow greater control of the healthcare experience, Philips Healthcare conceived Ambient Experience on the premise of providing a positive environment for patients and care providers.
Ambient Experience integrates architecture, design and enabling technologies such as dynamic lighting video projections and sound, to allow patients to personalize their environment and surround themselves in a relaxing atmosphere. This innovative, people-focused solution enables patients to select room themes and sounds, empowering them to be involved in their own care. Concurrently, designers take special care to address the needs of the clinical staff to make the workplace efficient and pleasant.
While improving patients’ satisfaction, Philips ‘Ambient Experience’ also increases hospitals’ workflow efficiency and staff’s working comfort. “We choose Philips AE because we share highly identical ‘People Focused’ concept. We look forward to seeing our children patients overcome their fears of traditional hospitals and actively follow our instructions on diagnosis and treatment. Meanwhile, I also expect that the application of Philips AE will create a better working environment for our staff, and always remind myself that it is our bounden duty to care for patients,” said Jin Yulian, President of Anhui Provincial Children’s Hospital, an early user of this people focused solution in China.
“Philips has constantly carried out scenario extensions and technical upgrades for ‘Ambient Experience’ in recent years. At the same time, we also plan to make the ‘Ambient Experience’ more suitable for local healthcare in accordance with differentiated needs in different markets. With global resource advantages and local market operations, we will continue to promote more extensive application of AE in China and make ‘people focused’ healthcare benefit the general public,” said Desmond Thio, President of Philips Healthcare Greater China.
More than 300 hospitals globally have installed the Philips Ambient Experience in a range of clinical environments, including clinic lobby and waiting areas, MR, CT, mammography, interventional cardiology (catheterization and EP ) lab suites, PET/CT, Radiography, emergency (pediatric) clinics and outpatient imaging centers.
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