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Beddenkamers Amsterdam UMC

Academic Medical Center Amsterdam will reconstruct its patients rooms on a large scale during the coming years.

To provide a better stay and increase experience level of patients AMC has chosen a reversed design-partner to design these rooms from the perspective of patients and care takers alike.
After winning a competition the assignment for this redevelopment project has gone to MMEK’

MMEK’ worked with all stakeholders involved to develop a new and integrated design concept which will improve patient’s experience. In the process we will use various insights both on a technology level and changing population.

The AMC offered us every opportunity to talk to as many people as possible within the organization right at the start of the process. This gave them the opportunity to immediately provide insight into what they encountered with the existing bed rooms. It gave us the opportunity to quickly deepen our practical knowledge of the work processes in healthcare and thus gain the substantive experience that can come in handy in subsequent assignments within the healthcare sector.

A mock-up of the new bed room proved to be a valuable tool: care staff can walk through it and employees can maneuver the beds into it. But a mock-up with MDF walls of one and a half meters high does not give a very realistic impression of what it is like to work in a real bed room after delivery. A professionally developed mock-up gives a much more reliable picture.

And that impression was further enhanced by virtual reality, which helped people to actually move through such a space and experience whether, for example, that button is in a logical place. Virtual reality comes very close to reality. It helps enormously in the decision-making process to show people exactly what they are deciding on

Only by proceeding in this careful way an end product can be created that users not only can use, but also want to use. They can do this from the end of 2019, when the first phase of the project is delivered. The second and third phase will follow in early 2020.

Only by proceeding in this careful way an end product can be created that users not only can use, but also want to use. They can do this from the end of 2019, when the first phase of the project is delivered. The second and third phase will follow in early 2020.

This approach leads to an end result that is truly forward-looking. Given the fact that we are talking about one of the largest investments since the completion of the building, this is certainly relevant in the communication to the board of directors. We have therefore decided to work in this way for all major projects.
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