Overlook Medical Center Launches New App With Indoor GPS for Patients and Visitors

SUMMIT, N.J., Nov. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- 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. 

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"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."

Overlook Medical Center has approximately 285,500 outpatient visits and 99,000 emergency visits annually, and close to 25,000 admissions each year.  Overlook Medical Center is the only hospital in New Jersey named one of America's 100 Best Hospitals for General Surgery™ in 2017 and to be recognized among the top 5% in the Nation for both Neurosciences and Treatment of Stroke in 2017 by Healthgrades®. 

Take Me There – Overlook is available for free on the App Store and Google play.  Click here for more information. 

About Atlantic Health System
Atlantic Health System, headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, is a leading non-profit health care delivery system in New Jersey. Our network includes Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, NJ; Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ; Newton Medical Center in Newton, NJ; Chilton Medical Center in Pompton Plains, NJ; Hackettstown Medical Center in Hackettstown, NJ; and Goryeb Children's Hospital in Morristown, NJ, as well as Atlantic Rehabilitation, and Atlantic Home Care and Hospice. It also includes its subsidiary, Atlantic Ambulance Corporation. Atlantic Health System comprises 1,747 licensed beds, more than 14,000 employees and more than 4,000 physicians. Atlantic Health System has a medical school affiliation with the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University; is part of Atlantic Accountable Care Organization, one of the largest ACOs in the nation, and is a member of AllSpire Health Partners.

About Connexient
Connexient is dedicated to creating innovative Indoor Mapping, Navigation and Digital Wayfinding Solutions for healthcare and other enterprise verticals to improve the patient and visitor experience, increase staff and operational productivity, and reduce costs. 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. For more information go to www.connexient.com.

SOURCE Atlantic Health System and Connexient