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Few patients have spent more time at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital<\/a> on the Anschutz Medical Campus<\/a> than Iliana Hernandez, and she\u2019s only in her early 30s.<\/p>\n

In March 2020, her daughter Esmeralda, then 13, found Hernandez gasping for breath in the shower. The Thornton resident would spend 22 days in an ICU and in inpatient coronavirus care at UCH. Hernandez recovered, but she was being treated for heart failure even before her bout with the virus. Her heart had been in slow decline since she was in labor with Esmeralda all those years ago. The coronavirus changed that. On Aug. 4, 2020, Hernandez received a heart transplant at UCH.<\/p>\n

And you thought your 2020 was one to forget.<\/p>\n

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Between her bout with COVID-19 in March 2020 and her heart transplant five months later, Hernandez has spent more time at UCH than most. Still, she says, the hospital’s new wayfinding app feature saves steps and the stress involved with navigating a hospital so big and interconnected. Photos: Todd Neff, for UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seven months later, Hernandez was back on her feet and grateful. Her voice breaks as she says, \u201cI feel alive, and sometimes I feel bad that someone else is not alive and I\u2019m alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

With an assist from Esmeralda, Hernandez is taking the time to talk about a feature now embedded in the UCHealth mobile app that aims to save patients a few steps and a dose of stress. Think of it as a sort of Google Maps that takes you all the way to your appointment location inside the five-building, sixty-plus-floor behemoth that is Colorado\u2019s premier adult academic medical center.<\/p>\n

The hospital wayfinding app<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s be honest: even for experienced hands like Hernandez, UCH can be a challenge to navigate. And even those who have spent weeks in its various spaces often don\u2019t have much of a chance to get their bearings. Hospital staff wheeled Hernandez around when she was an inpatient; her mother and her sisters guided her wheelchair during the many appointments before and after her heart-transplant surgery. When she was strong enough to come back into UCH for appointments on her own, she found herself \u201cjust walking back and forth,\u201d as she put it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI messed up a lot,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Hernandez was far from alone, UCHealth leaders have been quite aware. They\u2019ve been working on a way to help patients get where they\u2019re going inside and outside of UCH for more than three years now.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur visitors and patients have enough to worry about. You\u2019re visiting family members who aren\u2019t feeling well, or you\u2019re not feeling well yourself,\u201d explains Nicole Caputo, UCHealth\u2019s senior director for Experience and Innovation. \u201cAt UCHealth, we\u2019re constantly thinking, \u2018mobile first.\u2019 We wanted to use that awesome device in your pocket to ease your mind and make it super easy to understand where you\u2019re going.\u201d<\/p>\n

But how? Google Maps and similar mapping technologies harness GPS, which doesn\u2019t work once you\u2019re indoors. Caputo and colleagues wanted something that uses GPS to get patients and families to the parking lot, but also keeps guiding them once they walk or roll into the hospital. They tested systems from a couple of vendors before settling on one from Pointr<\/a>, an indoor-positioning technology developer.<\/p>\n

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Iliana Hernandez uses the \u201cFind your way\u201d (a wayfinding app feature) now available in the UCHealth mobile app.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pointr had established itself mainly in airports and malls, but the UCHealth team saw the potential of the company\u2019s technology in the big-hospital setting. The software works outside and indoors. Outside, it uses GPS for a location just like other mapping applications; indoors, it uses the phone\u2019s accelerometer and, mainly, Bluetooth, the short-range wireless technology that has replaced countless headphone wires. But unlike GPS, Bluetooth enjoys no U.S. military satellite constellation. Caputo\u2019s team had to install its own constellation: some 3,000 small Bluetooth devices on ceilings throughout UCH.<\/p>\n

The team followed UCHealth\u2019s longstanding \u201cone-app\u201d approach and built \u201cFind your way\u201d into the existing UCHealth app. Doing so would ensure patient privacy, a paramount consideration, Caputo says. Privacy extends to patients in the hospital: the wayfinding technology is capable of room-by-room exactitude, but directions stop at the clinic and unit level rather than individual patient rooms, she adds.<\/p>\n

‘Find your way’ gets you door-to-door<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Indeed, the UCHealth app is where Iliana Hernandez finds \u201cFind your way\u201d: she taps the \u201csandwich\u201d (those three parallel lines) in the upper-right-hand corner of the UCHealth app, taps \u201cSearch UCHealth\u201d in the dropdown menu, and then taps \u201cFind your way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hernandez and daughter Esmeralda demonstrate the UCHealth \u201cFind your way\u201d (hospital wayfinding) feature in a UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) hallway. The app covers more than 60 floors across UCH\u2019s five buildings and transitions seamlessly from outdoors to indoors, letting patients map from home to the closest parking lot to the clinic or unit to which they\u2019re headed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A map of the interior of the entire UCHealth complex appears with her location marked by a blue dot. One can browse away, tapping buttons that show, floor-by-floor, the locations of elevators, restrooms, vending machines, cafeterias, cafes, security, pharmacies, and information desks, all of which are marked by distinct badges. Clinics and units appear when she zooms in, or she can search on them and the app jumps to the proper floor and location. Once selected, she can have the app guide her to it.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s only part of the story. If Hernandez has an appointment, \u201cFind your way\u201d knows that because UCHealth\u2019s Epic electronic medical record \u2013 the engine behind My Health Connection<\/a> \u2013 taps into Pointr\u2019s technology. \u201cFind your way\u201d provides notification in the UCHealth app and shows the appointment on a map \u2013 all Hernandez has to do is click \u201cGo.\u201d \u201cFind your way\u201d works in concert with Google Maps to point Hernandez from home to the best parking lot. Once she\u2019s in the building, the indoor map shows a blue line that guides her from the doors of the building to the doors of the clinic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really good, it\u2019s really smart, and it avoids a lot of steps for people who are hurt, are older, or have a hard time getting around,\u201d Hernandez says.<\/p>\n

Patients at other UCHealth hospitals can use the wayfinding technology too, Caputo says. Beyond UCH, though, it stops outside the hospital for the time being. She says she expects upgrades at UCH \u2013 one day soon, the app may check-in patients automatically as they approach their appointments \u2013 and that UCHealth is looking to expand the Bluetooth-based indoor technology to other large UCHealth hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a humanizing technology,\u201d Caputo says. \u201cIt takes one little stressor away, and it can change your entire experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patients can download the UCHealth app from the <\/em>App Store<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>or <\/em>Google Play\u00a0<\/em><\/a>or visit <\/em>My Health Connection\u00a0<\/em><\/a>to create an account to get started.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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