Green hospital - A necessity and not option

Kumari, Shipra; Kumar, Rajeev

doi:10.18231/j.jmra.2020.010

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“…In addition, biobanks continuously demand improved efficiency in storage and sustainability [61,62]. To accomplish these requirements, next-generation biobanking will face the green hospital revolution, as a response to the growing concern over resource wasting and environmental damage [63,64]. Digital biobanks will decrease resource usage with the dematerialization of data and samples and reduce energy use by digitalizing data storage and tracking, still providing patients with the best service.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biobanking in the digital pathology era

Bonizzi¹,

Zattoni²,

Fusco³

2021

Oncology Research

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Digital Pathology is becoming more and more important to achieve the goal of precision medicine. Advances in whole-slide imaging, software integration, and the accessibility of storage solutions have changed the pathologists' clinical practice, not only in terms of laboratory workflow but also for diagnosis and biomarkers analysis. In parallel with the pathology setting advancement, translational medicine is approaching the unprecedented opportunities unrevealed by artificial intelligence (AI). Indeed, the increased usage of biobanks' datasets in research provided new challenges for AI applications, such as advanced algorithms, and computer-aided techniques. In this scenario, machine learningbased approaches are being propose in order to improve biobanks from biospecimens collection repositories to computational datasets. To date, evidence on how to implement digital biobanks in translational medicine is still lacking. This viewpoint article summarizes the currently available literature that supports the biobanks' role in the digital pathology era, and to provide possible practical applications of digital biobanks.

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Biobanking in the digital pathology era

Bonizzi¹,

Zattoni²,

Fusco³

2021

Oncology Research

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“…The first challenge involves finding ways to identify appropriate strategies and measure their effectiveness more than just optimizing any one component, Sustainable design and construction represent the integration of materials and methods that together create the physical appearance of a building. The entire life cycle of building materials and products, as well as the building as a whole, must therefore be evaluated concerning its physical, ecological, and human contexts at the local, regional and global levels, for environmental and health considerations [18]. Since the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 identified health as one of five big priorities for the future [19], Healthcare has measurable goals and objectives that support sustainability and the ability of the healthcare system to thrive in its social, economic and environmental environment [20].…”

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Principles for the Sustainable Design of Hospital Buildings

Alsawaf¹,

Albadry²

2022

IJSDP

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Technological progress has had negative effects as well as positive effects if it affects the life industry and the entire ecosystem significantly through the great consumption of natural resources, and here the construction sector in general and the health sector, in particular, have a role in this. From the perspective of keeping pace with technological development, responding to environmental changes, and paying attention to hospital environments (especially since the emergence of modern epidemics), and because the construction sector is the largest consumer of energy in the world, which made international organizations move towards creating a sustainable environment in the construction of hospital buildings by reducing energy consumption. This research focused on studying the components and principles of sustainable design for hospital buildings and the environmental, economic, health, and social benefits of sustainable development in the healthcare industry. In addition to the research objective, which is to build a model as a guide to guide health care officials interested in applying sustainable design principles in hospital design, to achieve an ideal sustainable hospital environment. To achieve this goal, a comprehensive theoretical framework was built by adopting a descriptive and analytical approach and extracting the most important vocabulary and effective indicators for sustainable design in hospitals.

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“…For example, VOC have great negative impact on staff as well as patients. The insufficient ventilation in hospitals leads to poor quality of indoor air as well as pollution (Kumari and Kumar, 2020). People having ill-health must have the greenest surroundings/ buildings of all as within the hospitals the environmental impact on users is much more important than in any other building because it's a place that provide healing along with recovery.…”

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confidence: 99%

Evaluating Energy Efficiency in a Hospital Building with Reference to GRIHA: Case of Trauma Centre at Aligarh, India

Dubey¹,

Kamal²

2022

Archit. Eng. Sci.

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With the rise in problems mainly ecological as well as energy crises that are intensifying today, the concept of green has become essential concerning sustainable development. The hospital building consumes much more energy and generates more waste, as compared to the other types of buildings. The climate change, contamination of chemicals, and use of unsustainable resources are all making health worse day by day over the world. The health sectors are themselves causing these problems on a broad scale. So, hospitals, health sectors must be green, there must be proper management of resources, waste etc., which means that it must have a minimum negative impact on the environment. The term Green Hospital has evolved as a way of addressing environmental issues, overcoming them and meeting society’s need. In India, Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) is one of the tools that provides green building certification to hospital buildings also. This paper aims at analyzing and investigating a hospital building (Trauma centre), Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh, based on major criteria of the GRIHA variant for existing buildings. This hospital building had been provisionally-rated by GRIHA in the year 2016 as 3 stars. This paper includes the analysis of building based on various calculations and in depth study of how this 3 star rating was provisionally achieved. This paper involves two main calculations, one regarding peak heat gain and the other is EPI.

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Green hospital - A necessity and not option

Cited by 14 publications

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Biobanking in the digital pathology era

Biobanking in the digital pathology era

Principles for the Sustainable Design of Hospital Buildings

Evaluating Energy Efficiency in a Hospital Building with Reference to GRIHA: Case of Trauma Centre at Aligarh, India

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