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2025: Top Trends in Medical Clinic and Healthcare Centre Designs

Happy New Year!

As we welcome the year 2025, it might be a good idea to pause and consider the future of Healthcare and medical clinic Design in Australia.

 

During the later months in 2024 we could feel the landscape changing. With continual advancements in technology, the importance of client centred design, staff well-being and retention together with balancing the elusive bottom line, the healthcare industry is in for a wild ride.

 

Combine this with global workforce shortages, aging populations, increase patient expectations we get the feeling that medical clinic design is facing a pivotal moment.

AI boom

Most clinics are using or at least thinking about using AI in shaping their strategies and growth forecasts. Data and security protection together with patient privacy is a huge area that AI will be instrumental in future medical clinic design.

Areas where AI can benefit healthcare:

  • Patient engagement
  • Clinic productivity
  • Service delivery
  • Research
  • Technology
  • Strategy and Growth

Global workforce shortages and patients living busy lives is creating a new area of healthcare. AI powered systems are being designed all around the world to accommodate these aspects. Medical fit outs will have areas designed to accommodate the AI future in healthcare. This might involve dedicated rooms that enable doctors/specialists to liaise with patients from a remote location.

 

Closer to the heart of patient care, AI can streamline. track and monitor patient results and can create intelligent correlations that can predict and highlight relevant information for doctors to use. Medical Centre design ideas combined with forward thinking designers will see 2025 medical centre designs proposing may AI initiatives.

Sustainability

Medical Clinic Builders with a strong conscience are opting to ensure their medical centre design ideas are environmentally friendly. These ideas that consider the environment can also help the bottom line. Healthcare facilities consume significant energy and medical centre designs can benefit using suitable passive energy ideas. The idea of maintaining a comfortable interior that leaves a small footprint that traditional building techniques often overlook. Intelligent use of Insulation, solar, windows and doors to promote natural light etc are all areas of sustainable design that will also contribute to the medical clinics bottom line.

 

The reduction in operating costs when designing new medical construction is a by-product of smart design.

Expansion of Mental Health Fitness

Some practitioners are planning for Mental Health Fitness for their patients and staff. We feel this will be a huge area for growth in 2025.

 

We would expect to see specialised mental healthcare hospitals and treatment centres being built to accommodate these needs.

 

Medical Clinic builders are also combining medical centre designs to incorporate Behavioural health and mental health fitness. This could be medical fit outs that contain well planned staff areas, break rooms and greenery centred areas. These wellness focused environments are instrumental in staff wellbeing and retention. Healthcare workers are benefiting from these ideas in particular in dealing with workplace stresses. In turn job satisfaction is higher.

 

Further to staff wellbeing – we are finding many clinics are now considering renting rooms to allied healthcare providers like psychologist and nutritional specialist to compliment traditional healthcare in one location. The wellbeing of the patient is the new focus. In the long run the patient experience guides medical design.

Consider Phygital solutions

As the healthcare industry makes progress in the digital and technological environment we need not miss the need for human connection. The Healthcare future lies in Phygital solutions – to bridge the physical world and the digital world through interactive experiences.

 

Examples of Phygital solutions in Heatlhcare might be a medical skin testing kiosk. A pop-up medical solution that engages the patient using latest skin scanning equipment.

 

Larger medical clinic designs may wish to have dedicated spaces for transient phygital solutions.

 

Thinking about Healthcare design in 2025 provides great thrill for designers who are forward thinking. New design ideas and initiatives that consider
new age challenges sees 2025 being a pivotal time in Healthcare design. 

 

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