Use research and simulation to improve medical experience and quality, patient safety and outcomes, and drive innovations.
Our Mission
The SimTigrate Design Lab explores the full ecology of designed systems that impact our health and wellbeing, including the built environment, services, devices and policy in partnership with key stakeholders. We bring our 14-year history of working with researchers, organizations, and end-users to this collaborative process to help implement evidence-based designs and solutions.
Our Beginnings
SimTigrate – combining concepts of simulation and integration – grew out of the Healthy Environments Research Group (HERG). Established around 2000, HERG was a multidisciplinary group of faculty and students at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University dedicated to improving healthcare outcomes through the design of cities and buildings.
The SimTigrate Design Lab was launched in late 2011 to focus more directly on health and healthcare and to create a lab structure focused around researchers, including Georgia Tech staff and students. Zimring and Associate Director Jennifer DuBose were instrumental in creating SimTigrate.
Inside Design
A Look Inside the SimTigrate Design Center
Approach
Look for moments of change & impact
Engage in discovery with stakeholders
Identify relevant evidence
Build long-term trusted relationships with sponsors
Involve students in everything
Settings
Home
Home Design Guidelines
Day Program Spaces
Cognitive Empowerment Program
Outpatient
Design for teamwork in outpatient settings
Exam rooms
Pediatric clinics
Acute Care
Med/Surg Patient Rooms
ICU
Biocontainment Units
Populations We Serve
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