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UCI Health Deploys Everbridge’s Industry-Leading Mobile Wayfinding Solution to Improve Patient Experience and Safety Amid COVID-19 Precautions

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Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in Critical Event Management (CEM), today announced that UCI Health in Orange County, California integrated the Everbridge MediNav™ solution with its My UCI Health mobile app, representing the healthcare industry’s most advanced, turn-by-turn indoor navigation and positioning system. The My UCI Health mobile app also leverages Epic’s MyChart providing users access to lab results, appointment information, current medications, immunization history and more on their mobile device. UCI Health is the first hospital provider to connect Everbridge MediNav™ with Epic’s MyChart introducing real-time, step-by-step directions to a doctor’s office or testing lab, as well as ‘Where am I?’ location points within a hospital building, floor, or room.

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UCI Health Deploys Everbridge’s Industry-Leading Mobile Wayfinding Solution (Photo: Business Wire)

“We are always looking for new and innovative ways to improve the patient experience,” said Bradley Giafaglione, director, UCI Experience. “Modern medical centers can be large, confusing places to navigate, especially for patients and visitors with multiple appointments. Integrating indoor wayfinding into the My UCI Health app provides this convenience so patients can safely focus on what’s really important – getting the care they need.”

Similar to traditional outdoor navigation systems, Everbridge’s MediNav™ wayfinding solution provides voice prompts, off-route notifications, and visual landmark references to make sure a patient finds his or her way to important appointments. Additional features include Parking Planner, Find My Car and Meet Me, all designed to help hospitals and health care networks increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, reduce missed or late appointments, and improve Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scores. Indoor navigation for patients also helps hospitals restore revenue-generating elective and other care procedures previously impacted amid concerns about infection from COVID-19.

The Everbridge MediNav™ solution provides the healthcare industry with the only real-time indoor location and navigation system combined with a global critical event management platform. As Everbridge GM of Digital Navigation and Wayfinding Solutions Mark Green explains, “The combination of the industry’s most advanced and intuitive ‘blue dot’ indoor navigation with the dynamic location capabilities of our Safety Connection solution enables hospitals to offer a wider range of services to more patients more quickly. Providing step-by-step directions of an evacuation route in a hospital or on a campus, for example, or by allowing patients and visitors to remain separate from regions of a building dedicated to COVID-19 treatment, helps to restore confidence in the safe return to a hospital setting, thus increasing revenue opportunities for the healthcare provider.”

In addition to UCI Health, which serves a region of nearly 4 million people in Orange County and Southern California, Everbridge supports over 1,500 healthcare entities including 9 of the 10 largest healthcare providers in the U.S. (overseeing more than 25 percent of all hospital beds in the U.S.), the top pharmaceutical, biomedical and medical device and manufacturing companies, as well as the largest managed care organizations, pharmacies, and statewide health alert networks (HANs), including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Everbridge improves the ability to coordinate first responders and other critical healthcare resources such as intensive care unit (ICU) beds, respirators, expert medical staff, etc., based on real-time data on the broader impact of COVID-19.

Everbridge recently hosted its “Coronavirus: the Road to Recovery” virtual leadership summit, which brought together the best minds across public and private sectors, including C-level speakers from the Centers for Disease Control, Cleveland Clinic, Houston Methodist Hospital, U.S. Army, Accenture, Biogen, a former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner and more. On-demand content from the event may be found here.

About Everbridge

Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate organizations’ operational response to critical events in order to keep people safe and businesses running. During public safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events including IT outages, cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over 5,200 global customers rely on the company’s Critical Event Management Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes through the secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and track progress on executing response plans. The company’s platform sent over 3.5 billion messages in 2019 and offers the ability to reach over 550 million people in more than 200 countries and territories, including the entire mobile populations on a country-wide scale in Australia, Greece, Iceland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Sweden, and a number of the largest states in India. The company’s critical communications and enterprise safety applications include Mass Notification, Incident Management, Safety Connection™, IT Alerting, Visual Command Center®, Public Warning, Crisis Management, Community Engagement™ and Secure Messaging. Everbridge serves 8 of the 10 largest U.S. cities, 9 of the 10 largest U.S.-based investment banks, 47 of the 50 busiest North American airports, 9 of the 10 largest global consulting firms, 8 of the 10 largest global auto makers, all 4 of the largest global accounting firms, 9 of the 10 largest U.S.-based healthcare providers, and 7 of the 10 largest technology companies in the world. Everbridge is based in Boston and Los Angeles with additional offices in Lansing, San Francisco, Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Bangalore, Kolkata, London, Munich, New York, Oslo, Singapore, Stockholm and Tilburg. For more information, visit https://www.everbridge.com, read the company blog, and follow on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

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