New Facility Technology Planning at Palomar Pomerado Health

Steven Tanaka, CIO, Palomar Pomerado Health, and Todd Hollowell, Vice President, Impact Advisors, describe emerging trends, best practices, and unforeseen challenges in New Facility Technology Planning, using Palomar Pomerado Health’s expansion and new facility programs as a real-time case study. They discuss how marrying traditional facility planning methodology with advanced and emerging technology planning and the many layers of infrastructure, technical, and workflow considerations meld together. Steven covers Palomar Pomerado’s multi-year planning efforts in the context of organizational growth, economic uncertainty, and rapidly changing technology. Attendees gain an understanding for the intensity, duration and complexity of new facility technology planning and see firsthand how a healthcare organization has leveraged the process and knowledge into a cohesive new construction and renovation strategy and timeline.