Thought Leaders: HDR’s Inaugural Edition of Delta Focuses on Thriving Amid Rapid Change in Healthcare

Thought Leaders - HDRHDR introduces the premiere edition of Delta, the first of a series of ongoing publications aimed at helping organizations not only embrace the rapid change that surrounds them, but thrive in it. This first 80-page volume explores one of the biggest challenges facing our healthcare clients today: how to respond to increasing unknowns in the industry while encouraging future-focused innovation.

To answer this question, Delta’s authors—our healthcare strategists, retail strategists, lean operation experts, architects, designers, data analysts and engineers—examine four different opportunities that emerge from embracing change:

  • Changing Perspectives: Creating a foundation of innovation within healthcare organizations that helps orient problems in an approachable way.
  • Changing Behaviors: Pushing beyond retail health towards retail thinking to support better care delivery.
  • Changing Experiences: Challenging the common assumptions made about what the patient experience is and how healthcare organizations should be thinking about it.
  • Changing Paradigms: Imagining a new, more central role for nature in chronic disease management.

“Doing something as bold as reinventing how patient care is delivered doesn’t happen by chance,” notes Hank Adams, AIA, Global Director of Health for HDR.” It results from activities and behaviors designed to help individuals and groups discover concepts at the fringes of today’s practice. That’s what this first edition of Delta is all about. Delta is not an architecture monograph or a design forecast as you may expect from a firm like HDR. It’s how we view the future.”

In future editions of Delta, our thought leaders will continue to look at what’s ahead, taking a human-centered approach to exploring the major themes that will inform change in our partner industries including health, education, science, and justice.

  • For a print copy or more information, please email delta@hdrinc.com
  • For a pdf download of Delta, visit hdrinc.com/delta
  • Follow the conversation on social media through #HDRdelta and #DeltaMeansChange

About HDR

HDR has partnered with clients to shape communities and push the boundaries of what’s possible since 1917. We specialize in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. With nearly 10,000 employees in more than 225 locations around the world, we think global and act local.

Our architecture practice is committed to design excellence and innovation. By employing a highly participatory and collaborative design process, we create architecture that is both proud and humble, stays true to its purpose, and creates a sense of place that is meaningful to the society it serves.

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