Plenary V - Sustainable Healthcare Facilities

通过对超大医院现状研究发现超大医院出入口容易出现"难找、难走、难用"三大典型问题，并分析了超大医院出入口种类和关联性。为提升医院出入口设计质量，提出超大医院出入口设计需要遵循"三高原则"：高识别性、高可达性、高连通性。结合国内外案例深入探讨出入口设计的三高原则，旨在构建城市、医院与人文的深度关联。
To address the three typical accessibility challenges revealed by our previous studies on super-large hospitals - poor orientation, poor navigation and poor experience - we conduct analysis on access typologies and their interconnections, and, based on such efforts, propose the "Three Highs Principles" for access design of super-large hospitals: high recognizability, high accessibility, and high connectivity, to enhance the hospital access design. We also explore and discuss such "Three-highs Principles" through project cases in and outside China, aiming to establish profound connections among urbanism, healthcare facilities, and humanity.

The presentation will explore the evolution and current state of medical surgical robots and AI technologies. Surgical robots have progressed from ancient practices and open surgeries to minimally invasive operations and, more recently, embodied AI-driven robot-assisted procedures, enhancing precision while reducing invasiveness. Similarly, AI has evolved from performing basic recognition tasks to enabling complex understanding, significantly improving the autonomy and efficiency of surgical robots.


In addition to examining these advancements, the presentation will focus on the integration of AI and Robotics, Embodied AI, highlighting the latest international breakthroughs and cutting-edge technologies in this field. It will also introduce key scientific challenges being addressed by Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with its most recent research achievements. 


Finally, the presentation will offer a forward-looking perspective on emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges in this rapidly evolving field, providing valuable insights into its development and transformative potential.

Most of the latest international scientific publications demonstrate that Healthcare systems represent, at the international level, between 4 and 5% of the global emissions balance of greenhouse gases. The non-governmental organization, the Shift Project, has even estimated the environmental cost of the French healthcare system at nearly 8% of the overall carbon national impact.
Hospitals play a major role and occupy a prominent place in this balance, and in particular university hospitals. As far as France is concerned, they have both a healthcare, teaching, and research mission. They are also often the largest employers and the leading economic players in their region. For all of these reasons, their commitment to the ecological transition and their conversion to green hospitals is absolutely essential to controlling and reducing the environmental footprint of the healthcare system. All public and private hospitals have long been committed to this transition, but often with changing priorities and therefore an impact who needs now to be re-examined. The carbon footprint is not everything and the environmental footprint represents, more generally, the ecological footprint in the broad sense. 
Beyond the efforts already made by hospitals in terms of ecological transition, there is still much to do, but many solutions exist in this area.
At the times at the level of each establishment, by the deployment of a structured low-carbon strategy. Taking action in terms of eco care, sobriety, relevance must be better rewarded. 

At the local level with partners of university hospitals to promote on scope 3 a proactive policy of sustainable purchasing and industrial partnership. 

And finally, as shown by the example of the commitment pact in the ecological transition of the 33 French university hospitals, a major challenge at the national and international level in the proper coordination of actions.