{
  "id": 14949766,
  "title": "This one factor will define the hospital of the future",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/this-one-factor-will-define-the-hospital-of-the-future",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-16T12:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91624036/this-one-factor-will-define-the-hospital-of-the-future"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In the evolving landscape of healthcare, the hospital of the future hinges on seamless coordination around patient needs, not just the latest technologies. In 1960, Lord Taylor first proposed this concept, advocating for infrastructure and care organization around patients. Today, hospitals grapple with fragmented systems built over decades, each purchased for specific purposes, resulting in siloed technologies like electronic health records, staffing platforms, and financial systems. Despite an explosion of data, translating it into actionable insights remains a challenge, as only 42% of clinicians routinely use the critical clinical information available at the point of care. However, artificial intelligence has emerged as a potential solution to bridge this gap by detecting patterns in data, reducing costs, and providing timely care. To fully embrace this vision, AI must help hospitals move from prediction to coordination, adjusting various aspects such as staffing, supplies, patient preparation, and recovery capacity in response to changes like operating room schedule shifts or emergency demand surges. The key lies in creating an operational layer that maintains human oversight, ensuring that technology enhances care quality efficiently by measuring the impact of interventions on waiting times, capacity utilization, and delays. Ultimately, the hospital of the future, as championed by Lord Taylor, will prioritize the patient at the center, integrating technologies that coordinate future actions effectively.",
  "summary": "In 1960, British physician Lord Taylor published an essay in The British Medical Journal titled “Hospitals of the Future,” in in which he predicted that the hospital of the future would need to adapt its infrastructure to changing medical needs and organize care around patients. Since then, discussions about the hospital of the future have tended to focus on a wide array of technologies, such as…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}