Apple is joining HP, eBay, Intel, Oracle and other Silicon Valley companies to build a $2 billion hospital in Stanford, with $550 million of the initial cost being donated and raised by the corporate partners program that Apple has joined as member. Steve Jobs and Vice President of Retail Ron Johnson are quoted in the press release and video of the upcoming hospital, which will feature technological advancements to “change the way people interface with the hospital” with ideas contributed by the companies mentioned above.
More than just contributing resources, the partners will work with New Stanford Hospital planners to develop innovative new approaches to providing patient access, information, education and navigation, a program that “has the ability to change the face of health care,” according to Stanford Hospital president and chief executive Amir Dan Rubin.
The project balances new technical innovations with the goal of creating a healing environment “responsive to the emotional, social and psychological needs of patients, families, visitors, medical professionals and staff,” said a report by the hospital.
Steve Jobs, quoted on the project’s website:
All of us are very fortunate to have Stanford’s world-class medical center right here in Silicon Valley. We are very excited about the development of their new hospital and really want to support their plans.
Full press release is available here, check out the video below featuring Apple’s Ron Johnson below.
