COVID-19 disease: the hospital of the future is already here.

Abstract

A few months ago, a working group from the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI), in collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Foundation (IMAS), reflected on the characteristics that the ‘‘hospital of the future’’ should have in our healthcare system. This initiative was captured in a final document with various recommendations. Recently, a summary was published as a special article in an issue of REVISTA CLINICA ESPANOLA. In general, changes to improve the quality of healthcare systems in Western countries come slowly and are plagued by difficulties: they are care structures comprising multiple professionals whose management—human, technological, and organizational—entail a high degree of complexity.