A restorative patient experience requires close attention to environmental design.

Patients whose attentionis not only engaged with a positive representation of nature, but a physiological experience of open skies, are less prone to claustrophobia, requiring less medication and reducing retakes.

Relaxed patients maximizeimaging workflow and assure more patient referrals and greater patient loyalty.

iophilia is the science behind nature’s power to calm and heal human beings. Biophilia is our genetically encoded predisposition

to engage with nature for psycho-physiological wellbeing. Biophilic engagement triggers the “Relaxation Response,” the opposite of, and antidote to, the primordial Fight-or-Flight Response.

Several-decades of evidence-based design research have established the benefits of views to nature in healthcare. Views to nature encourage biophilic engagement, which reduces mental activity and relaxes the physiology, alleviating stress and improving healing outcomes.

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ot all representations of nature promote biophilic engagement with equal effectiveness. Award-winning, peer-reviewed research

indicate that biophilic illusions engage areas of the brain involved in spatial cognition, successfully leveraging the observer’s underlying habits of perception to effectively deepen biophilic engagement.

Biophilic Design strategies, such as using biophilic illusions, are recognized as a ‘best practice’ in healthcare environments, especially in imaging suites where the benefits have a clear and positive impact on the patient experience and the bottom-line.

uminous SkyCeilings are modular and compatible with suspended ceiling systems worldwide; are custom-tailored to each space; and offer an

unmatched library of proprietary and customizable images. They are easy to install in new or retrofit installations, and are 100% MRI compatible.

Over a decade of product innovation and excellence, and thousands of installations around the world, has made Sky Factory the only provider of truly biophilic illusions of sky (and nature) verified by f MRI research.

ky Factory Luminous SkyCeilings reproduce the subtle visual stimuli of real skies and create remarkable experiences of natural open

space. Confined imaging suites are transformed into comforting, restorative environments for mind and body.

f MRI research on Sky Factory’s sky image compositions at Texas Tech University’s Neuroimaging Institute revealed unique and positive neural activations in the viewers, indicating the effectiveness of Sky Factory’s biophilic illusions. Clinical research in the hospital environment has clearly documented reduction in acute stress by over 50% and anxiety by over 33% while improving indicators of patient satisfaction.

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Unlike positive representational images of nature, Sky Factory’s Open Sky Compositions uniquely engage areas of the brain involved in depth percep-tion, including the cerebellum.

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