Nurturing The Critical Interactions Between Caregivers, Technology and Information

Sync Caregiver Hub It’s day two at the 2011 NeoCon World’s Trade Fair in Chicago. Day one was... Read More

Dealer Feedback From NeoCon

We here at Nurture love receiving feedback. Comments, good or bad, help us to better understand the needs of our customers, and ultimately provide a better healthcare experience for the patients, caregivers, and partners in care who use our products. So we asked Susan Hughes, VP of Healthcare for Office Environments of New England, to give us her impression of NeoCon, and specifically, the Nurture showroom. Here are her thoughts: “Four... Read More

The Shape of Things to Come

Come and join us at Neocon this year! June 14-16th open source video, online video platform, video streaming, video solutions var kaltura_swf = new SWFObject("http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/_266072/uiconf_id/534/entry_id/0_pzndoa4n",... Read More

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Social Media Usage

Ed Bennett (@EdBennett) runs a great blog that successfully brings the worlds of social media and healthcare together. He provides social media resources to healthcare professionals, and can be counted on to provide the latest statistics on what hospitals are doing what when it comes to social media. I found some of his recent postings particularly [...]

Remodeled Waiting Room 2

CBS, Nurture and Mike Ty...

On Sunday, July 24, CBS premiered a new show called Same Name. Running for six consecutive Sunday evenings, the show features celebrities who switch places with regular people who share their name. They learn what it’s like to live the life of someone else and see the world through their eyes. The August 7th episode featured [...]

Furniture Life Cycle Model -- graphic courtesy Malone, E. B., & Dellinger, B.A. (2011). Furniture Design Features and Healthcare Outcomes. Concord, CA: The Center for Health Design, p. 35.

Creating an Evidenced-ba...

We have learned from other industries like, nuclear and aviation, that highly-reliable environments depend on understanding how the environment and the objects in the environment shape human behavior. Furniture is one of those objects.

Creating an Evidenced-ba...

We realized that people in positions like Eileen’s (CEO or Commander in the military) are usually focused on the budget, when reviewing a furniture proposal because they don’t speak the same “language” as the designer. Depending on the designer’s background, various features may or may not be pointed out as salient features. We felt that having a tool with a common language that all could use made a lot of sense.