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Next-Gen Enterprise Indoor And Outdoor Wayfinding With Cartogram

Moving through the big hospitals can be challenging, as one does not know where to turn to reach their destination. The list of challenges is endless, but what if there was a way to make this journey seamless and stress-free? 

It would be like a hospital navigation app that leads you right to the destination, be it the right parking spot, your appointment, or the one particular room where you are heading to visit your loved one, just like Google Maps lets you travel from point A to point B effortlessly. 

Welcome to Cartogram, the future of end-to-end enterprise indoor and outdoor wayfinding. Our solution is uniquely designed for a rich, simple patient experience, setting us apart from other wayfinding tools. 

Combined with an Epic MyChart integration and the latest advancements in Bluetooth Low Energy technology, this hospital wayfinder harnesses the power of Google Maps to provide the user with turn-by-turn seamless outdoor-to-indoor navigation.

Let’s look closer at how Cartogram assists patients, visitors, and hospital staff with its features.

Trusted by Leading Healthcare Providers

The patient’s journey back to health can be complicated. Cartogram ensures that their visits to healthcare facilities are smooth and stress-free, providing a sense of relief to patients and staff and reassurance that they are in good hands. 

By implementing advanced wayfinding solutions, Cartogram unwinds much of the patient stress, streamlines the patient experience, and maximizes HCAHPS scores. Cartogram integrates seamlessly with any app on any screen.

Trusted 37 healthcare systems utilized by over 50 healthcare facilities nationwide, our hospital navigation app has assisted over half a million patients, turning the patient experience into patient satisfaction.

Understanding The Key Features of Cartogram

Let’s examine some amazing features that make our hospital navigation app a leading choice for healthcare systems.  

1. Blue Dot Indoor Navigation: Blue Dot technology by Cartogram provides precise live indoor positioning with an indoor routing algorithm for turn-by-turn navigation. Now, the patient can quickly and easily reach their appointment on time. It’s a win-win for the patient and the hospital, saving on the increased costs of delays for late and missed appointments. 

2. Interactive SMS Chat: Patients can conveniently request directions by sending a text message specifying their desired destination. In response, they will receive clear, easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions to their destination.

3. Seamless Indoor and Outdoor Routing: Patients who use mapping apps alone are left stranded as they arrive on campus and the navigation ends. Cartogram fills in the gaps and navigates patients from their arrival on campus to locating the designated parking area, finding the correct entrance, ensuring a timely appointment arrival, and navigating back to their parking spot. 

4. Wayfinding Hotline: This hospital wayfinder has the first-ever indoor wayfinding hotline for patients who prefer voice calls. If you’re uncomfortable using a smartphone or texting, call our hotline, and a friendly tech will guide you to your destination. This feature ensures that everyone can benefit from Cartogram’s wayfinding services regardless of technological proficiency.

5. Smart Parking Garage Selection: Patients can text message for emergency room current wait times using Cartogram’s smart parking garage selection feature, bringing about efficient parking management and reducing patient stress.

6. Epic MyChart Integration: This feature allows patients to tap a button in their MyChart appointment to receive turn-by-turn navigation from their current location to their appointment. MyChart is a patient portal that provides secure access to portions of your medical record and allows you to communicate with your healthcare provider. By integrating with MyChart, Cartogram enhances the patient experience and ensures they arrive at their appointments on time.

With its efficient, time-saving, and user-friendly design, Cartogram’s hospital navigation app platform is accessible to people of all ages, ensuring a seamless experience for everyone.  

Innovation and Accuracy at Its Core

The mission of Cartogram is to make finding your way from anywhere to anywhere easy for everyone. By marrying sophisticated navigation software with a streamlined user interface, Cartogram is revolutionizing wayfinding in healthcare.

With an average rating of 5.0 across all healthcare apps powered by Cartogram, our solution is truly shaping the future of healthcare. As we continue to scale and innovate, you can trust that Cartogram will adapt to your facility’s changing needs, making it a valuable long-term investment in patient navigation. 

Benefits of Hospital Wayfinder for Healthcare Providers

Finding one’s way through a large healthcare facility can be overwhelming. Cartogram changes the game through effective patient navigation with clear and precise directions and integration with other existing systems within facilities. Here’s how Cartogram makes a meaningful difference.

1. Reducing Patient Stress: Navigating large healthcare facilities can be stressful and overwhelming for patients. Cartogram reduces this stress with clear and precise directions that ensure patients arrive at their appointments on time. 

2. Streamlining Appointments: Cartogram minimizes late cancellations or no-show appointments by integrating with any EHR (Electronic Health Record)provider. This integration enhances the user experience and also upgrades the efficiency of healthcare services.

3. Boosting Staff Efficiency: Cartogram provides analytics to healthcare administrators to assist with patient flows, resource allocation, and operational efficiency, empowering staff to be more productive, efficient, and in control of their work.

Trusted by Healthcare Providers All Over The State! 

With services in over 30 states and 50 million square feet of indoor maps created, our hospital wayfinder assists patients from arriving on campus to locating the designated parking area, finding the correct entrance, ensuring a timely appointment arrival, and navigating back to their parking spot.

Cartogram’s native systems converge hardware, software, and content management to achieve the proprietary technology, making it efficient and easy to use instilling confidence in its implementation.

Cartogram covers every wayfinding scenario and patient population type through an app, web, kiosks, digital signage, an SMS chatbot, or a 24/7 wayfinding hotline.

The Bottom Line 

Cartogram is more than just another hospital wayfinding solution; it completely redefines patient navigation from start to finish, transforming the patient experience into patient satisfaction. It reduces stress, makes appointments more efficient, increases resource management, and improves the patient experience and efficiency of the healthcare setting.

Grounded on innovation and accuracy and trusted by leading healthcare providers, Cartogram paves its way into a future where no patient can get lost. Learn what Cartogram can do for you and your facility. 

When you integrate Cartogram into your hospital app or when Cartogram creates an app for you, we provide comprehensive support and training to ensure a smooth transition. This includes onboarding sessions, user guides, and ongoing support, instilling confidence in your staff and patients that they will quickly adapt to your new hospital wayfinder. Contact us today to learn more and feel supported in your hospital navigation app journey.      

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