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

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

3 October 2022
Ochsner Health Selects Purple Digital Wayfinding System to Enrich Patient, Visitor, and Staff Experience

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 Jefferso

1 June 2022
What are Indoor Location Services? Updated for 2023

What are Indoor Location Services? Updated for 2023

Indoor location services allow for the tracking of people and objects within a set space through the combination of hardware and software technologies.

28 February 2022
Digital Wayfinding - One small step for the NHS but a big step for patient and staff empowerment by Mike Farrar

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 pro

22 February 2022
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust launches CHS Maps to benefit patient experience

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust launches CHS Maps to benefit patient experience

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has revolutionized its hospital signage by launching the country's first interactive mapping service.

7 September 2021
Why VCU Health chose Purple Wayfinding to improve patient and visitor experiences

Why VCU Health chose Purple Wayfinding to improve patient and visitor experiences

Following an international RFP search, in July of 2021 VCU Health System chose Purple to implement a wayfinding solution on its growing downtown medical campus

20 August 2021
Location Analytics & Services: How they can increase revenue

Location Analytics & Services: How they can increase revenue

The first commercial satnav was released in 1990 as a revolutionary built-in feature for the Mazda Eunos Cosmo, and yet in 2021 we can order an Uber through a

12 April 2021
Automating your visitor count, achieving 98% people counting accuracy

Automating your visitor count, achieving 98% people counting accuracy

Manually counting people in and out is an inefficient way to collect numbers of visitors, in addition to this, many venues are having to hire additional members

7 December 2020
The role of mobile wayfinding apps on College Campuses

The role of mobile wayfinding apps on College Campuses

What is Campus Wayfinding Campus wayfinding is a system designed to help users navigate campus environments. It's a solution for students, faculty, and visitors

3 August 2020
The History of Wayfinding

The History of Wayfinding

Find out how it all started, what solutions are currently revolutionizing physical spaces, and what to prepare for in the future.  Wayfinding, albeit in it

11 March 2020
How wayfinding technology could reduce average waiting times and wasted spend in the NHS

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

24 January 2020
Wayfinding Technology - What is it?

Wayfinding Technology - What is it?

Wayfinding is defined as information that assists with guiding people in a physical environment or enhancing their experience within it, you know the signs they

12 November 2019
5 interesting uses for location technology

5 interesting uses for location technology

Location based love Proximity based social networking is becoming the norm and there has recently been a shift towards app development to help us to widen our

21 August 2015
WiFi or beacons for location based services?

WiFi or beacons for location based services?

Location based services are now the norm. From sat navs to google maps on our phone, we all understand that our devices can communicate with satellites or other

8 December 2014
WiFi presence analytics explained

WiFi presence analytics explained

Presence Analytics seen using WiFi Analytics reporting bridges the gap between Google Analytics and the real world, offering real-time data and reporting using

27 June 2014

Meraki launches presence analytics API

As a Meraki Technology Partner we were very excited when we got hold of the presence API several weeks ago. This is something we have been doing with our

7 May 2013