Comments on: Rethinking the Waiting Room by Fuelfor http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/29/rethinking-the-waiting-room-by-fuelfor/ architecture and design magazine Fri, 24 May 2013 16:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Patient Pagers http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/29/rethinking-the-waiting-room-by-fuelfor/comment-page-1/#comment-999577 Patient Pagers Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=150616#comment-999577 Hospital waiting-room design is important, but a better option is to remove the need for patients to have to wait in a congested uncomfortable area. We work with many hospitals to improve the patients waiting experience by using patient paging systems. This lets the patients wait in a a hospitals cafe or restaurant or even move outside to make a phone call. But importantly patients can be called back to the department when their appointment is ready. Hospital waiting-room design is important, but a better option is to remove the need for patients to have to wait in a congested uncomfortable area. We work with many hospitals to improve the patients waiting experience by using patient paging systems. This lets the patients wait in a a hospitals cafe or restaurant or even move outside to make a phone call. But importantly patients can be called back to the department when their appointment is ready.

]]> By: Il Davide Scarpa http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/29/rethinking-the-waiting-room-by-fuelfor/comment-page-1/#comment-850719 Il Davide Scarpa Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:29:27 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=150616#comment-850719 IMHO this is a wrong solution that follows the wrong approach, that maybe it lacks identification/empathy with hospital visitors and patients. Hospitals and related behaviours should be designed as if they were taking place somewhere else, because nobody wants to be in a hospital. People just want to feel sense of safety and guarantee that they'd leave the place in a better condition. IMHO this is a wrong solution that follows the wrong approach, that maybe it lacks identification/empathy with hospital visitors and patients. Hospitals and related behaviours should be designed as if they were taking place somewhere else, because nobody wants to be in a hospital. People just want to feel sense of safety and guarantee that they'd leave the place in a better condition.

]]> By: G Welch http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/29/rethinking-the-waiting-room-by-fuelfor/comment-page-1/#comment-850182 G Welch Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:57:51 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=150616#comment-850182 I just love how they have combated the problem of hospital waiting rooms by using huge amounts of plain white and all those plastic forms, much better than those sterile and unhomely Maggie Centres with their excess in warm and soft furnishings. I just love how they have combated the problem of hospital waiting rooms by using huge amounts of plain white and all those plastic forms, much better than those sterile and unhomely Maggie Centres with their excess in warm and soft furnishings.

]]> By: Meadows http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/29/rethinking-the-waiting-room-by-fuelfor/comment-page-1/#comment-850021 Meadows Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:51:23 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=150616#comment-850021 The furniture design looks like a 'vitra office' adapted into a waiting area and the large table concept is reminiscent of the Bouroullec 'joyn' project. I don't see how the concept of sitting around a corian table on DSW chairs makes a medical appointment with the family a 'better' experience. It seems to lack sensitivity, comfort and intimicy. The furniture design looks like a 'vitra office' adapted into a waiting area and the large table concept is reminiscent of the Bouroullec 'joyn' project.

I don't see how the concept of sitting around a corian table on DSW chairs makes a medical appointment with the family a 'better' experience.

It seems to lack sensitivity, comfort and intimicy.

]]> By: Alexander Moreno http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/29/rethinking-the-waiting-room-by-fuelfor/comment-page-1/#comment-849761 Alexander Moreno Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:08:17 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=150616#comment-849761 Having the phone app so that you can go somewhere else while waiting is actually incredibly useful, probably more so than all those other improvements. Having the phone app so that you can go somewhere else while waiting is actually incredibly useful, probably more so than all those other improvements.

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