This post is sponsored by MobileSmith.
Mobile wayfinding is a hot new trend in healthcare right now. Patients expect a convenient and stress-free hospital experience. User-friendly wayfinding apps can simplify hospital navigation, check-in, and other interactions, greatly improving your organization’s patient satisfaction scores.
However, many healthcare providers still view mobile wayfinding as an extremely time-consuming and costly project. It does not have to be!
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How to Create a Wayfinding App Quickly
MobileSmith has partnered with Gimbal, the market leader in proximity beacons and geofencing technology. With these innovative tools integrated in our platform, any non-programmer in your organization can:
- Quickly create a custom, native app for iOS and Android, featuring 2D/3D maps, photos with overlay pointers, wayfinding instructions, etc.
- Deploy beacons indoors and draw geofences around your facility.
- Enter push messages your app will send to users at specific locations.
- Point these push messages to specific app pages – maps, parking instructions, check-in, special announcements, etc.
- Test your wayfinding app prototype on real devices, with real beacons.
- Include wayfinding and proximity messaging in any branded hospital app!
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- Assist your visitors with indoor and outdoor navigation and parking;
- Enable automatic queue placement, check-in, etc.;
- Push relevant location-based text messages;
- Track time spent by your visitors or staff at various locations,
- And much more!
MobileSmith uses a low-cost Bluetooth technology that is much less expensive than most of the newly available digital wayfinding solutions, which tend to require deploying and maintaining a costly digital infrastructure. Beacons are also significantly more accurate than the emerging Google and Apple indoor map technologies. Presently, the technology incorporated in the MobileSmith platform represents an optimal solution for organizations that want to get into mobile wayfinding quickly and cost-effectively, while providing a truly satisfying mobile user experience.
MobileSmith™ is an enterprise-class, flexible mobile app development platform that enables organizations to rapidly create, deploy, and manage CUSTOM, NATIVE apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android smartphones without writing a line of code.
We empower organizations to get to market quickly with unique self-built mobile apps that drive business value. Our clients create award-winning mobile apps, easily integrate their data sources, securely manage each mobile app from a dedicated online CMS, and take advantage of proximity-based push messaging via MobileSmith/Gimbal integration.
