Periodically in history, significant changes occur within an industry.  These leapfrog events create long-lasting step changes which dramatically shape future direction.  For healthcare, NOW is one of those times, and a powerful movement is underway!

LongWave Group™ is a self-assembled multi-disciplinary organization of industry leaders who have come together with the purpose of addressing the unsustainable model of healthcare by integrating advances in care concepts, built environment and technology.

The Care Studio Project^TM and conference exhibit created by the LongWave Group^TM will provide an interactive experience where your thoughtful questions are vital inputs to the process of innovating towards the ideal future state, characterized by dramatic  improvements. Together, we will discover and identify synergies that will inspire business and help deliver the best solution to the key problem faced in healthcare.  The exhibit will be featured during the Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo Exhibit Hall, September 15, 2010.  For more information on the exhibit, click here.

Those participating in this effort will be contributing members to the change that will become our tomorrow.  We invite you to register online for HFSE, view the exhibit and be a part of the few who will be able to experience what the future holds.  Plan to attend now. 

Key Problem at Hand:
The current healthcare delivery system is fragmented and inefficient.  Results and outcomes are influenced by constituents motivated to behave in their own self interest, to the detriment of the overall system itself.  This misaligned model is currently unsustainable and must be changed.

Big Ideas™ that Deliver the Solution:
We address this problem by harmonizing the following principles:

• Improved operational effectiveness
• Enhanced technologies integration
• Customized built environments using efficiently standardized configurable parts 

Achievable Benefits to the Industry and its Participants:
Big Ideas™ will provide the foundation for a flexible continuum of solutions within healthcare that delivers:

• Significantly reduced operation costs
• Flexibility/adaptability over time
• Increased standardization
• Reduced waste
• Improved safety and quality
• New ways of working in unison that maximize collaboration and cooperation