Individuals undergoing imaging and radiation therapy procedures at the San Joaquin Community Hospital in Southern California will benefit from Philips Electronics’ Ambient Experience technology, which uses ‘dynamic’ light, video, and sound, ‘to place patients in a calming, reassuring, and relaxing environment’.
This is the 500th Ambient Experience order since the ‘hospital solution’ first went on the market in 2006. The San Joaquin Community Hospital, in Bakersfield, has ordered a Big Bore CT treatment planning room with Ambient Experience for its new Cancer Center, due to open this month. Two of the Center’s radiation therapy treatment rooms will also incorporate the technology. Philips says Ambient Experience solutions give patients ‘personalised control over the theme selection that defines the colour and intensity of the ambient lighting and the audiovideo content in the room’. It adds: “Through specialised design strategies, examination and treatment rooms are de-cluttered, so that patients feel less overwhelmed by technologically complex medical equipment and procedures.”
