ORLANDO, FL – The high-tech Disney Children’s Hospital at Florida Hospital will be the first hospital to bear the Disney name and officials are touting it as the “Children’s Hospital of the Future.”

The 200-bed facility is slated for completion by 2010.

“The partnership between Florida Hospital and Disney demonstrates that Central Florida is quickly becoming known just as much for medicine and science as it is for its thriving tourism industry,” said Lars Houmann, president of Florida Hospital and chairman of bioOrlando, which promotes life science and biotechnoloigy industry in Central, Fla. “We believe Disney Children’s Hospital will provide the blueprint for other children’s hospitals in the future.”

The hospital’s emergency department will feature Philips Ambient Experience Design, which integrates architecture and technology – lighting, sound, vision and RFID – to create spaces that the patient can personalize.

“Philips is delivering a captivating and comforting child-friendly space. We’re incorporating the latest in clinical design and technologies, as well as elements, to provide calming, positive assurances to patients and their families,” said Brent Shafer, executive vice president and CEO, North America, for Philips Healthcare.

Technology will extend to the in-room experience as well, where Interactive Patient Care technology will allow bedside access to GetWellNetwork’s Patient-Life System. The Bethesda, Md.-based technology provider will give patients access to video and Internet and parents access to the latest information on childhood obesity, asthma, diabetes and other educational topics.