LAPLACE – River Parishes Hospital recently launched a new mobile version of its hospital website to better serve the River Parishes community and to respond to the growing demand for health information by owners of smart phones.
The new website can be found by visiting www.RiverParishesHospital.com on a smart phone. The web server can detect the use of a mobile web browser and will automatically route the user to the new mobile website.
“We want to make it easier for our community to find a doctor or the health information they need,” saID Robert L. Marshall, River Parishes Hospital’s CEO. “With more and more people accessing the Internet through their iPhone, Droid, Windows or other mobile phone, we have created this new website to simplify access to our doctors and our healthcare services.”
According to the Mobile Health 2012 survey of Internet users by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 52 percent of smart phone users have used their phone to look up health or medical information. Surveys also found that 87 percent of U.S. adults own a cell phone, 45 percent of whom own smart phones.
The hospital’s mobile website helps consumers find a doctor, get directions to the hospital, learn about hospital services, search for a career and get quick access to valuable health-related information. Consumers can also link to healthy recipes, daily health news and the hospital’s full website.
The mobile website was developed for River Parishes Hospital by its parent corporation, LifePoint Hospitals.