"Talk about unhealthy communication: a hospital uses GE call systems for patients, Philips Emergin as an electronic interface for notifications, Cisco wireless to connect communications devices within the hospital and Siemens for its main phone system.
Enter an iPhone pilot program for nurses, which helps them monitor patients and communicate with each other quickly across all of those platforms."
So starts a brief article over at Cult of Mac that discusses a pilot program to integrate the fragmentation that has evolved in the medical space.
It's a scenerio that we're all very familiar with in the AEC industry. Revit remains the de facto standard for integrating much of the design. But the overall process seems uncomfortably fragmented. We still have to get the right information to the contractor - and then again to the owner. Along the way, we use one platform to design, another to render, others to provide critical analysis, followed by more tools to resolve construction, and then I suppose something else entirely to help manage the completed building.
Starting this week, I'll begin a series of blog posts (about one or two per week) to discuss some of the challenges we all still face after a decade of BIM. Should we really expect to overcome the fragmentation that has evolved in the AEC space? What happens if we do?
Pros? Cons?
Hopes? Fears?
Comments? Suggestions?
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