Designing a Healthcare Computer Aided Facility Management System: a New Approach

This paper presents a custom decision-support information system designed to analyze and manage healthcare buildings, estate and assets in rela- tion to the activity area of each room. The software drives its own SVG plans to retrieve structural information with a room-scale definition, built by DXF files inputted to the system itself. Each room is grouped in homogeneous areas ac- cording to the hospital’s inner organization (Departments and Operative Units) with their own assets, technologies and environmental comforts, giving quanti- tative and qualitative results. The system output can be used by the top- management to assess parameters and improve the structure and organization.