This year the curtain will be lifted on the present to take a peek into the future of health care design. With health care technology advancing ever faster, with the onset of genetically grown organs, with robotic utilization incorporated into everyday experiences, and with life spans to increase far beyond what is presently possible, there will soon be difficult moral and ethical decisions to face that will shape the future of our existence.
To broaden thinking and lead into this "Brave New World" of health care design, Dr. Richard M. Satava will keynote the conference. Dr. Satava is an internationally recognized speaker on future trends in health care technology and currently serves as Professor-Emeritus in the Department of Surgery, University of Washington and is a former Senior Science Advisor at the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.
Other main speaker sessions will focus on the advances of 3D printing for human organs and skeletal tissue, the utilization of robotics in surgery and rehabilitation, and other technological advances in the areas of diagnostics and genetics. All of these topics will have a direct influence on the future design and operation of health care facilities.
The Breakaway Sessions will concentrate on health care design and construction issues related to fire safety, architectural and engineering design, and facility management that are important to designers, contractors, facility managers, and inspectors. The new revisions to the 6th edition of the Florida Building Code and the 2014 and 2018 editions of the FGI Guidelines, as well as other recently revised codes and standards, will also be addressed.
The AHCA Office of Plans and Construction review staff and the Fire Protection Specialists from AHCA's field offices will be in attendance to answer questions regarding AHCA's interpretations and applications of these and other codes and standards enforced by CMS and the state of Florida.