Beyond Efficiencies: Guiding Artificial Intelligence in the Planning and Design of Healthcare Facilities

Artificial intelligence for health holds enormous transformative potential. It has already proven successful in enhancing patient outcomes, facilitating the duties of professional caregivers, and their organizations. Its potential applications in the field of healthcare architecture are similarly being explored. This article discusses the role and function of generative artificial intelligence with respect to the professionals who work in close collaboration with healthcare organizational clients and their direct-care constituencies in decision framing the planning, design, construction, and management of healthcare facilities. Opportunities and challenges associated with generative artificial intelligence in the facility procurement process are discussed, including the role of ethics and societal responsibility at this critical juncture.