The Autonomous Hotel Model for Hospitals
April 14, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
This summer, when the 72 room Henn-na Hotel opens in Sasebo, Japan, a double will cost $76 per night. For Japan, this is an exceedingly inexpensive rate, but the hotel has been able to cut costs by not having any of a hotel’s traditional employees. It functions with robots. Hospitals believe the hospitality industry has models healthcare can adopt—quite so, and Henn-na may show how concierge medicine can also be autonomous. MORE
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