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The hospital of the future
How digital technologies can
change hospitals globally
Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 2
The hospital of the future may look quite different than
the hospital of today. Rapidly-evolving technologies,
along with demographic and economic changes, are
expected to alter hospitals worldwide.
To learn what the hospital of the future may look like,
the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions conducted a
crowdsourcing simulation with 33 experts from across
the globe including health care CXOs, physician and
nurse leaders, public policy leaders, technologists, and
futurists.
The crowdsourcing simulation identified five use cases
for the design of digital hospitals globally in 10 years,
which are outlined in this deck.
Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 3
Refined care delivery
Clinical command centers
What is it? Benefits?
“Air traffic control” - like command
centers
Provides real-time data to manage
patient capacity and other
operational processes
Analytics, machine learning, and
artificial intelligence
Patient harm can be predicted and
suggested interventions fed to
caregivers
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Refined care delivery
Personal and portable care
What is it? Benefits?
3-D printing, robotics,
nanotechnology, genetic coding,
and therapeutic options
More personalized and accessible
patient care
Small and portable devices and
equipment
Patient harm can be predicted and
suggested interventions fed to
caregivers
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Cloud-based, interoperable electronic health records (EHRs)
What is it? Benefits?
AI and EHRs populated by
interoperable data from different
sources
Process efficiencies and improved
decision-making necessary to boost
quality
Cognitive analytics
Sort through and find the most
important personalized data points
Big data Secured on the cloud
Refined care delivery
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Digital and AI technologies
•	 Simplifying admission, discharge, and other processes
What is it? Benefits?
Digital technology
Improve the patient experience
by providing real-time access to
medical knowledge
AI
Reduce processes and
redundancies for patients
Reduce amount of forms patients
need to fill out, or data that needs
to be provided
Digital patient experience
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Intelligent staff recruitment and scheduling
What is it? Benefits?
Cognitive analytics and RPA
Automate the candidate-selection
process for hospital recruitment
Acuity-based staffing analytics
Study patient data and
requirements to match patients
with the appropriate staffing
competencies
Enhance talent development
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Virtual learning and development
What is it? Benefits?
Training/virtual reality
Help surgeons map out their
surgeries before conducting them
Share footage of actual surgeries
with students and colleagues
Increase specialized expertise
available to a larger audience, which
can be particularly important when
geography and costs are factors
Enhance talent development
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Automation and robotics for care and ancillary services
What is it? Benefits?
Robotics to automate hospital
ancillary and back-office services
Generate considerable cost and
time efficiencies, and improve
reliability
Reduce burdens on nurses
Operational efficiencies through technology
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Blockchain and secure contracting through next-gen
technologies
What is it? Benefits?
Data interoperability 	
Help health information exchanges (HIEs) alleviate security
concerns
Supply chain management
Create efficiencies and improve safety across the supply chain
for planning, purchasing, and tracking inventory of goods
Trace the process via a blockchain ledger over a peer-to-peer
network
Revenue cycle management
Improve the validity and efficiency of the hospital revenue cycle
Eliminate the need for intermediaries between providers,
insurers, and customers
Reduce administrative costs and automate calculations that
are now done manually
Operational efficiencies through technology
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Hospitals will likely have prosocial designs for patient and
staff well-being
What is it? Benefits?
Customized patient rooms
Promote good physical, spiritual,
and mental health, and contribute
to quicker patient recovery
Smart, ergonomic premises
Reduce patient anxiety and expedite
healing
Modular lighting and noise
management
Improve the patient experience,
particularly in terms of mood and
perception of pain
Reduce noise to lessen sleep
disruption, stress
Healing and well-being designs
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Many hospitals will focus on safety and security—by design
What is it? Benefits?
Tagged patient wristbands and
employee and visitor badges with
RFID tags
Allow appropriate levels of access
Reduce patient anxiety and expedite
healing
Security cameras monitored by
AI—using facial recognition and
empathic expression detection
Identify dangerous situations as, or
even before, they occur
Healing and well-being designs
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Building a digital hospital of the future can require
investments in people, technology, processes, and
premises.
In the short term, hospital leadership may not see
immediate returns on these investments. In the longer
term, however—as digital technologies improve care
delivery, create operational efficiencies, and enhance
patient and staff experience—the return result can be in
higher quality care, improved operational efficiencies and
increased patient satisfaction.
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Learn more
To read the full report, as well as strategies to prepare for the hospital of
the future, please visit www.deloitte.com/us/global-hospital-of-the-future
To learn more about the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, its projects
and events, please visit:
www.deloitte.com/centerforhealthsolutions
@DeloitteHealth
www.blogs.deloitte.com/centerforhealthsolutions/	
Randolph Gordon, MD MPH
Managing Director
Deloitte Consulting LLP
ragordon@deloitte.com
Marc Perlman
Managing Director
Deloitte Consulting LLP
mperlman@deloitte.com
Maulesh Shukla, MBA
Assistant Manager
Deloitte Center for Health
Solutions
Deloitte Services LP
mshukla@deloitte.com
About Deloitte Center for Health Solutions
The source for health care insights: The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions
(DCHS) is the research division of Deloitte LLP’s Life Sciences and Health
Care practice. The goal of DCHS is to inform stakeholders across the health
care system about emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities. Using
primary research and rigorous analysis, and providing unique perspectives,
DCHS seeks to be a trusted source for relevant, timely, and reliable insights.
To learn more about the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions and our
research, please visit www.deloitte.com/centerforhealthsolutions.
This publication contains general information only and Deloitte is not, by means of this publication, rendering accounting, business, financial, investment, legal, tax, or
other professional advice or services. This publication is not a substitute for such professional advice or services, nor should it be used as a basis for any decision or
action that may affect your business. Before making any decision or taking any action that may affect your business, you should consult a qualified professional advisor.
Deloitte shall not be responsible for any loss sustained by any person who relies on this publication.
About Deloitte
Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee (“DTTL”), its network of member firms, and their related
entities. DTTL and each of its member firms are legally separate and independent entities. DTTL (also referred to as “Deloitte Global”) does not provide services to
clients. In the United States, Deloitte refers to one or more of the US member firms of DTTL, their related entities that operate using the “Deloitte” name in the United
States and their respective affiliates. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting. Please see www.
deloitte.com/about to learn more about our global network of member firms.
Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved.

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  • 2. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 2 The hospital of the future may look quite different than the hospital of today. Rapidly-evolving technologies, along with demographic and economic changes, are expected to alter hospitals worldwide. To learn what the hospital of the future may look like, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions conducted a crowdsourcing simulation with 33 experts from across the globe including health care CXOs, physician and nurse leaders, public policy leaders, technologists, and futurists. The crowdsourcing simulation identified five use cases for the design of digital hospitals globally in 10 years, which are outlined in this deck.
  • 3. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 3 Refined care delivery Clinical command centers What is it? Benefits? “Air traffic control” - like command centers Provides real-time data to manage patient capacity and other operational processes Analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence Patient harm can be predicted and suggested interventions fed to caregivers
  • 4. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 4 Refined care delivery Personal and portable care What is it? Benefits? 3-D printing, robotics, nanotechnology, genetic coding, and therapeutic options More personalized and accessible patient care Small and portable devices and equipment Patient harm can be predicted and suggested interventions fed to caregivers
  • 5. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 5 Cloud-based, interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) What is it? Benefits? AI and EHRs populated by interoperable data from different sources Process efficiencies and improved decision-making necessary to boost quality Cognitive analytics Sort through and find the most important personalized data points Big data Secured on the cloud Refined care delivery
  • 6. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 6 Digital and AI technologies • Simplifying admission, discharge, and other processes What is it? Benefits? Digital technology Improve the patient experience by providing real-time access to medical knowledge AI Reduce processes and redundancies for patients Reduce amount of forms patients need to fill out, or data that needs to be provided Digital patient experience
  • 7. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 7 Intelligent staff recruitment and scheduling What is it? Benefits? Cognitive analytics and RPA Automate the candidate-selection process for hospital recruitment Acuity-based staffing analytics Study patient data and requirements to match patients with the appropriate staffing competencies Enhance talent development
  • 8. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 8 Virtual learning and development What is it? Benefits? Training/virtual reality Help surgeons map out their surgeries before conducting them Share footage of actual surgeries with students and colleagues Increase specialized expertise available to a larger audience, which can be particularly important when geography and costs are factors Enhance talent development
  • 9. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 9 Automation and robotics for care and ancillary services What is it? Benefits? Robotics to automate hospital ancillary and back-office services Generate considerable cost and time efficiencies, and improve reliability Reduce burdens on nurses Operational efficiencies through technology
  • 10. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 10 Blockchain and secure contracting through next-gen technologies What is it? Benefits? Data interoperability Help health information exchanges (HIEs) alleviate security concerns Supply chain management Create efficiencies and improve safety across the supply chain for planning, purchasing, and tracking inventory of goods Trace the process via a blockchain ledger over a peer-to-peer network Revenue cycle management Improve the validity and efficiency of the hospital revenue cycle Eliminate the need for intermediaries between providers, insurers, and customers Reduce administrative costs and automate calculations that are now done manually Operational efficiencies through technology
  • 11. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 11 Hospitals will likely have prosocial designs for patient and staff well-being What is it? Benefits? Customized patient rooms Promote good physical, spiritual, and mental health, and contribute to quicker patient recovery Smart, ergonomic premises Reduce patient anxiety and expedite healing Modular lighting and noise management Improve the patient experience, particularly in terms of mood and perception of pain Reduce noise to lessen sleep disruption, stress Healing and well-being designs
  • 12. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 12 Many hospitals will focus on safety and security—by design What is it? Benefits? Tagged patient wristbands and employee and visitor badges with RFID tags Allow appropriate levels of access Reduce patient anxiety and expedite healing Security cameras monitored by AI—using facial recognition and empathic expression detection Identify dangerous situations as, or even before, they occur Healing and well-being designs
  • 13. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 13 Building a digital hospital of the future can require investments in people, technology, processes, and premises. In the short term, hospital leadership may not see immediate returns on these investments. In the longer term, however—as digital technologies improve care delivery, create operational efficiencies, and enhance patient and staff experience—the return result can be in higher quality care, improved operational efficiencies and increased patient satisfaction.
  • 14. Copyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 14 Learn more To read the full report, as well as strategies to prepare for the hospital of the future, please visit www.deloitte.com/us/global-hospital-of-the-future To learn more about the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, its projects and events, please visit: www.deloitte.com/centerforhealthsolutions @DeloitteHealth www.blogs.deloitte.com/centerforhealthsolutions/ Randolph Gordon, MD MPH Managing Director Deloitte Consulting LLP ragordon@deloitte.com Marc Perlman Managing Director Deloitte Consulting LLP mperlman@deloitte.com Maulesh Shukla, MBA Assistant Manager Deloitte Center for Health Solutions Deloitte Services LP mshukla@deloitte.com
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