How our Dynamics Map Extension can help Medical Professionals and Institutes

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How our Dynamics Map Extension can help Medical
Professionals and Institutes
These are dark times and even the smallest things
count. Having said that, we also wanted to do
our bit and take some time out to help our users
by presenting a unique use case of our Dynamics
365 map integration. This use case is related to
identifying the nearest hospitals and then
finding an optimized route with our shortest
pathfinder feature. Our Dynamics map extension,
Quick Maps, uses Spatial Data Services Module
and Bing Maps Direction module offered by the
Bing Maps API. This enables our users to perform
a region search, proximity search, route
optimization, and locate the hospitals,
restaurants, other essential shops in a
particular area. Additionally, we use Bing Maps
V8 Code Modules and Bing Maps Rest APIs to
develop features like region-wise search,
proximity search, pushpin, infobox,
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etc. in our extension. This means the data
fetched is completely reliable and precise. As
Dynamics 365 is among the top choices for
hospitals and medical institutes, our extension
will help ambulance drivers to locate nearby
hospitals instantly and then take an optimized
route with little to no traffic. For any map
application to work with precision, there should
be geocodes attached with records to visualize
them on the map. For this reason, we use Bing
Maps Location API to get geocodes for Dynamics
365 Records based on their addresses.
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Quick Maps user can add geocode for the
records manually or they can automatically fetch
them depending upon the number of
records/entities they have to update. As we use
Bing Maps Spatial Data Services Module in Quick
Maps, users just need to enter the region name
and it will display all the CRM records in that
region.
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Example
Quick Maps admin users can insert Hospital as an
entity and users can search the records by
selecting hospitals in Entity and then they can
find the shortest route to the hospital.
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Example As shown in the above screenshot, Quick
Maps users can identify the hospitals in the
Texas area and then navigate to the desired
location. They can also share the final location
to concerned people by sending an email or just
sharing the link of Google/Waze/Apple maps. To
get the optimized route, we use the Bing maps
Route module and SPF (Shortest path first)
algorithm.
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Users can edit the routes and reach the nearby
hospital or primary medical center.
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Quick maps also provide the POI (Point of
Interest) option. Using this option, users can
search for any medical emergency place by
inserting the location and the nearby hospitals
will be displayed.
After the nearby records are displayed, by
clicking on the Show Data, the data will be
displayed in the grid view.
Select the records where you want to travel to
and then click on the Route icon to display the
direction on the map.
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Now by clicking on the Go button, the routes to
the hospitals will be displayed.
This way you can reach the nearest hospital based
on your current location in the times of
emergency. Important Note To make it easier for
small and medium-sized medical institutes, we are
offering a flat 10 off on our Quick Maps
extension. In addition to that, we will also
make sure that the implementation process remains
as smooth and short as possible. Original
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