Carle Foundation Hospital Launches App to Enhance Patient Experience with Indoor Navigation
Digital Wayfinding and Blue Dot Indoor Navigation Powered by Connexient's MediNav™
URBANA, Ill. and NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Carle Foundation Hospital announced today it launched Carle Map powered by Connexient's MediNav™ solution for Digital Wayfinding and Indoor Navigation. Based in Urbana, Illinois, Carle is an integrated system of healthcare services including Carle Foundation Hospital, Carle Physician Group and Health Alliance Medical Plans.
Connexient's MediNav™ is the market leading Digital Wayfinding and Indoor Navigation solution for Healthcare, with over 40 hospitals. MediNavTM solves the challenges of patient and visitor wayfinding with comprehensive directories and rich indoor maps, true turn-by-turn indoor navigation, "All Screens" support across Kiosk, Web and Mobile, and outdoor + indoor wayfinding that powers popular features like Parking Planner and My Car location saver.
Carle's deployment will include the integration of their Epic appointment scheduling solution and MediNav's end-to-end digital wayfinding and navigation to reduce missed or late appointments and drive an innovative new "Airline Check-in Model" personalized patient user experience.
"This tool will help us enhance the experience for our patients. It can be a challenge for patients or visitors to find their way through an unfamiliar hospital. By collaborating with Connexient, we can help make a trip to the hospital a little easier. The Carle Map is an important step forward for an even better patient experience," said Michael Sutter, Chief Innovation Officer for Carle.
"We are delighted to announce the launch of MediNav at Carle Foundation Hospital," commented Mark Green, Connexient's CEO and Co-Founder. "Carle has a deep commitment to innovation and healthcare transformation, and we are excited to move forward now on implementing advanced-use cases and integrations that will deliver not only a world-class patient experience, but also enterprise efficiencies and ROI."
About Carle
Based in Urbana, Illinois, The Carle Foundation is a vertically integrated health system with more than 7,000 employees in its hospitals, physician group and health plan. The 413-bed Carle Foundation Hospital is a Level I Trauma Center and offers Level III perinatal services. Carle is ranked in 2017 as one of America's 50 Best Hospitals by HealthGrades, a Best Hospital by U.S. News and World Report and has achieved Magnet® designation, the nation's highest honor for nursing care. Carle serves people through high-quality care, medical research and education.
About Connexient
Connexient (www.connexient.com) provides innovative Indoor Mapping, Navigation and Location-based Services hospitals and healthcare networks with large, complex buildings and campuses. The MediNav™ Navigator Edition Patient Experience solution helps to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, reduce missed or late appointments and improve HCAHPS scores.
More than just a mobile app, Connexient's mission and vision is to navigation-enable Enterprise IT. The Connexient Mobile Application SDKs and Web APIs enable its clients to integrate its rich, navigation quality indoor maps and location-based services across Enterprise IT in areas such as asset tracking, staff and patient flow, facility management, safety and security and more, with use cases that bring compelling value to users and direct ROI in capturing lost revenue, reducing costs and increasing operational efficiency and intelligence.
CONNEXIENT CONTACT:
Geoff Halstead
(212) 763-6604 ext. 701
[email protected]
CARLE CONTACT:
Laura Mabry
(217) 326-8501
[email protected]
SOURCE Connexient
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