New mobile app could help patients, families to easily navigate throughout hospital

Atlantic Health System and Overlook Medical Center announced today the launch of "Take Me There - Overlook," an innovative mobile app that helps patients and their families to easily navigate throughout the hospital.

"Take Me There - Overlook also provides an all-screens solution, similar to what Google has," says Gerard Durney, director of Operations at Overlook Medical Center. "With the app, users can leverage maps and routes on the Internet or kiosks in addition to navigation to plan their visits. They can also print personalized maps and directions."

Take Me There - Overlook is powered by Connexient and its MediNav Digital Wayfinding solution that delivers the world's most sophisticated indoor navigation system. To enhance the patient experience, it includes advanced features, such as a Parking Planner which navigates users to the best parking location based on their appointment location inside the facility, and soon-to-be implemented My Car Saver, which saves the user's parking location and will navigate them back to their car when they are finished with their appointment or visit.

"Patients and visitors can be very anxious when they enter a hospital," says Durney. "It can be difficult to remember directions. This patient-focused feature is one of the many services we have in place to help patients find their way, be on time, and, hopefully, be more relaxed."