Healthcare units have to deal with a large audience and unforeseen events at any time of the day. Hence, they need to maintain a smooth flow of information and coordination amongst various people and services. Digital Signages can bind them together and ensure that the hospital environment does not get complicated.
Following are some use-cases about how digital signages can improve the healthcare units drastically.
- Direction Display: Hospitals are vast, crowded and occupied, making it intimidating to navigate through the premises, especially for a patient trying to find a doctor. Healthcare units can use these signages to display maze-like designs or complexes blueprints to help guide the visitors.
- Live Patient Monitoring: Digital signages can replace the bedside whiteboards used to indicate patient’s conditions. They require up-to-date information such as their dosage, phone number, names of the care team, etc.
- Surgey Updates: Surgery updates can be shared with family using coded indicators to protect patient privacy. Family members could keep a tab on information like how long their loved one has been in the operating room, easing their stress and anxiety and lifting up this task from the staff’s shoulders.
- Wait Room Entertainment: Screens can be used to make people comfortable in waiting rooms by displaying educational videos or other relevant content to reduce their waiting anxiety.
- Information broadcast: Hospitals and other healthcare units need to communicate several messages to their patients and visitors. The old channels of communication are time-taking as well as not attractive enough. Thus, interactive screens can be used to share various notices, promote services and events, safety announcements and recommendations, awareness content, etc., in absolutely no time and effort.
- Modernize Cafeterias: Conveying the menu content can become hassle-free with digital screen because unlike chalkboards or printed menus, screen menu allow quick price updates, removal of sold-out items, etc.
- Doctor Appointments: Basic appointment related information like patient’s name, health report, doctor’s qualification, and booking time can be displayed conveniently using digital signages.
- Small Desk Signage: Doctor’s should spend time treating patients and not organizing their files or schedules. This can be made practical by using mini signages at doctor desks that will act as their digital assistants and would do everything from displaying appoint schedule to meeting timer.
- Inter-department Information cross: There are many instances when staff members in a department need to convey critical information to another department. Signages can do it without the need for paper charts or bulky folders in minimal time and effort, taking hospital management one step ahead.
- Marketing and promotion: Healthcare centres can leverage the functionalities of digital signages to flaunt the hospital’s services, membership plans, awards & laurels, upcoming donation drives, charity work, etc. It can also highlight the magnitude of critical operations performed by the surgeons to implant a sense of trust and faith in patients as well as their family members.
