The ergonomic design methodology intends to make the construction of hospitals of the future anthropocentric or to plan improvements in currently existing ones and this by placing doctors and patients at the center of the design activity. Specifically, it involves carrying out a detailed examination of the safety, quality and ergonomic usability criteria to which these hospitals will have to comply. The multidisciplinary working group will be led by an ergonomist, with the aim of preparing precise guidelines to be provided to the designers, who will thus be facilitated in their work. Almost all current hospital facilities are inadequate to accommodate modern analysis, imaging and treatment technologies and to meet the needs of users and healthcare personnel. The design of new hospitals, with a forecast of use for at least twenty years, must absolutely take into consideration both the environment in which they will be inserted, both the internal and external spaces, both their usability by users and the needs which derive from the continuous development of advanced technological systems in medicine. The hospitals of the future will have to be “green”, “smart” and “mild”.
