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Category: Healthcare digitalization

Posted on February 9, 2023 | Updated on February 24, 2023

CentraCare Partners with Purple to Implement a New Digital Wayfinding Solution to Support Patient Experience at St. Cloud Hospital

CentraCare has selected Purple as an approved vendor for digital wayfinding at CentraCare – St. Cloud Hospital. The collaboration of these two innovative organizations focuses on making patients and visitors feel confident in their ability to find their destination and improving the overall patient experience. CentraCare is an integrated, not-for-profit health care organization, working to…

Posted on October 3, 2022

Intelligent Healthcare: How real-time location services benefit patient experiences and boost hospital efficiency

95% of hospitals are planning to increase their utilization of real-time locating technology. By implementing additional solutions, healthcare facilities will be enabled to track medical devices, supplies, and specimens. What is Intelligent Healthcare? When we think about the future of healthcare, it’s exciting and mysterious. What will a trip to the hospital look like? Will…

Posted on June 1, 2022 | Updated on October 27, 2022

Ochsner Health Selects Purple Digital Wayfinding System to Enrich Patient, Visitor, and Staff Experience

Ochsner Health has selected Purple’s Digital Wayfinding solution to be integrated into their flagship hospital, Ochsner Medical Center, located at 1514 Jefferson Highway in greater New Orleans. The digital wayfinding solution is aimed at improving the overall experience for patients, visitors, and staff. It integrates with the MyOchsner App to provide on-site walking directions. In…

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Posted on May 18, 2022 | Updated on October 27, 2022

Digital Health: The benefits of optimizing patient journeys

The realization of how important digital solutions are for healthcare venues has caused significant changes to the way hospitals have begun to operate over the past 10 years and with a large number of healthcare providers knowing they must improve the patient experiences, the adoption of technology has allowed healthcare providers to greatly influence patients’…

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Posted on March 3, 2022 | Updated on November 10, 2022

How to encourage more visits and manage overflow in a growing Healthcare Facility

The Covid-19 pandemic has seen many people postpone their healthcare visits out of fear of infection. On top of that, due to sparse resources, critical Covid-19 cases caused a reshuffling of medical departments to fight the disease. Non-Covid patients, like those with diabetes and cancer, lost fast access to doctors for regular checkups. Fast forward…

Posted on February 28, 2022 | Updated on March 1, 2022

Purple appoints Mike Farrar as new Healthcare Adviser

Purple continues to add exceptional talent to its healthcare team by partnering with Mike Farrar, an industry expert adviser. Purple, the Indoor Location Services company, announced today that Mike Farrar has been appointed as a new Healthcare industry adviser of the company. This prominent thought leader and consultant will be leveraging his expertise within the…

Posted on February 22, 2022 | Updated on March 1, 2022

Digital Wayfinding – One small step for the NHS but a big step for patient and staff empowerment by Mike Farrar

Whilst digital wayfinding may not as yet be common parlance in the NHS, it may be that its emergence in the coming years heralds a mindset shift of sizeable proportion on the part of Trusts and their management culture. Wayfinding refers to information systems that guide people through a physical environment and enhance their understanding…

Posted on November 29, 2021 | Updated on December 3, 2021

Purple continues to build on its success in the healthcare market with the key appointment of Libby Motto

Purple, the Intelligent Spaces company, has today announced an addition to their already best-in-class Healthcare team. Libby Motto has a proven track record of over 20 years of experience in implementing effective strategies and processes within the healthcare industry, joins as Healthcare Account Executive. Libby, who holds a Master’s Degree in Healthcare Administration, has previously…

Posted on October 26, 2021 | Updated on November 24, 2021

All the Benefits of Healthcare CRM

Between traditional healthcare challenges and ones the pandemic entailed, the healthcare industry strives to contain operational costs. In the midst of accelerating digitization, patients no longer evaluate providers based on medical outcomes alone, instead seeking a pleasant overall patient experience. As they become more engaged across channels and more involved in the process, healthcare marketing…

Posted on September 9, 2021 | Updated on October 14, 2021

Patient experience: The future of healthcare

After our webinar with futurist Mike Ryan, we’re looking forward to what the future of healthcare holds for the patient experience. In this blog, we’ll uncover the changes we’re seeing in the short to long term and how each will affect the individual patient experience. Want a quick overview? Check out our infographic at the…

Posted on January 24, 2020 | Updated on November 10, 2022

How wayfinding technology could reduce average waiting times and wasted spend in the NHS

Hospitals are notoriously difficult to navigate around, all corridors seem near-identical, every door leads to somewhere you’re sure you’ve just been 3 minutes ago and the signage is never very clear. All of this leads to a daunting experience for any patient entering an unfamiliar hospital, and with the increase in population and evolution in…