PHOENIX—Wellness spaces still need to be done, but there are so many other solutions to promote wellness than bricks and sticks. That is according to Jeff Land, VP of corporate real estate at Dignity Health.
Land served as a panelist at the recent RealShare National Healthcare Real Estate 2015 conference."It will be very short term for us to build wellness centers before we reach the point where I can monitor your cholesterol every day from the smart phone in your pocket and say, 'hey, maybe you should have a banana or sit down for a few minutes,'" says Land. "That interactivity is coming… the technology is there and it is being tested."
Other panelists agreed that the big piece of the puzzle is technology. But Tom Urina, corporate real estate director at Intermountain Healthcare, said that insurance providers have to keep up with it. "The whole goal is to engage the patient in their own care," he said.
Land added that "the private insurers are doing a better job adopting tech and being in front of it."
When panelists look at what healthcare is going to look like in five years, Andrew Fogg, a partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, said there are some opportunities for some urban development that has previously been constrained by environmental laws in parts of California. Parking and traffic are the big issues, he said.
Land said that he expects healthcare to be more integrated, friendlier, and more personal. "It will be more of everything we have started now."
Urina added that "Continuity of care is going to take on a whole new meaning that will have to occur to mitigate cost increases over the spectrum."
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