For decades, understanding how patients, visitors and staff experience clinical environments has relied on surveys, anecdotes and word of mouth. Today, that picture is becoming far more precise. Reid Cimala, AIA, Healthcare Client Principal and Nashville Healthcare Studio Design Leader at Gresham Smith, spoke with Becker’s Hospital Review about how biometric mapping technology is emerging as a powerful tool for guiding design investments—and the ethical considerations that come with it.
By capturing real‑time data on movement, stress and engagement, biometric mapping offers a deeper look at how people navigate care settings. Cimala explains how these insights can help organizations create environments that are more intuitive, supportive and evidence‑based, representing the next evolution of healthcare design.
Read the article, “A New Era in Healthcare Design: Using Biometric Data to Build Evidence-Based Environments,” here.
