Future of Healthcare Task Force Report

The Board of Regents of the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA) formed a Task Force to study and recommend ways to improve access to healthcare. In particular, the Board wanted to look proactively at healthcare industry paradigm shifts and the role that the built environment will play. The Task Force was comprised of ACHA Certificants and members of allied organizations. Specific questions posed to the task force were:

•  How will Healthcare be delivered in the future?

• How can we create an equitable system?

• What kinds of spaces are needed to accommodate this?

The task force met monthly for 6 months. Two deep dive workshop sessions were also scheduled with an expanded group of ACHA certificants and allied organizations around the following topics:

WORKSHOP 1 Enhancing adaptability/flexibility/portability of healthcare
environments/speed to market

WORKSHOP 2 Technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI)’s role in introducing other
disruptors/providers