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Health infrastructures and the digital revolution

Tsoukakis Evangelos, Tsarna Styliani-Eirini

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The following paper presents the impact that the evolution of technology has in the field of medicine and in particular in the field of health care in hospitals and health services and analyzes these changes in the wheel of time. This paper highlights and analyzes a new trend in healthcare, which is digital health, and may drastically affect it in the coming years. First of all, the historical development of health infrastructure over the centuries is analyzed in order to explain the transition from the non-existence of buildings specifically designed as health infrastructure to the development of health infrastructure as we know it before the digital revolution. Later, an analysis is made about how health infrastructures and their typologies have evolved from the 19th century to the present. Their architectural elements are listed in more detail. In the last chapter, an attempt is made to integrate the reader into the concept of digital health. The concept is given, its development so far and its usefulness in today's world is analyzed through explanatory material, statistics and examples. It also examines the change that can occur in the current state of both health infrastructure and the services they provide, due to the digital revolution and the spread of e-health around the world. At last, it is documented that the change in thinking from the analogue to the digital world goes beyond the boundaries of health spatially and affects the social, political, architectural and urban planning aspects of health.

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