Digital Signage for Healthcare, Hospitals and Clinics

Hospitals and clinics are not easy places to find your way around. A lot of people walk in already worried, and a confusing sign or an old notice on the wall don't help. Digital signage for healthcare fixes a good part of that. Patients, visitors and staff see clear, up-to-date information, and your team changes every screen from one dashboard.

MRG Systems has made screen systems in the UK for 43 years. LiveSpace is our own software, and it runs more than 25,000 connected screens today. Our UK team builds it, installs it and looks after it afterwards. Want to see it working? Book a demo or start a free trial.

What is digital signage for healthcare?

It's a set of screens in hospitals, clinics and surgeries, all run from one system. The screens show things like directions, opening times, clinic changes, health tips and notices for staff. Someone with access logs into a dashboard and picks what shows on which screen. No more printing, laminating and sticking paper on the wall. The idea is same for one small clinic or a big hospital site. You change it once and every screen follows.

Where digital signage for healthcare works

Put screens where people stop, wait or look around for help. Some good spots:

• Main entrance and reception, for a welcome, opening times and directions
• Outpatient and clinic waiting areas, for updates and health information
• Corridors and lift lobbies, to point people to the right department
• Pharmacy and cafe, for opening hours and menus
• Staff rooms and staff corridors, for rota changes and reminders
• Car parks and entrances, for parking and visiting info

Every screen can have its own job. Reception shows a friendly welcome. A waiting area shows calm, useful stuff. The staff room shows what changed today. It works best when a screen does one thing clearly, and you decide what that thing is. That goes for digital signage for hospital wards too, and for any healthcare site, big or small. Clinical areas have their own needs, like how a screen gets cleaned and where it can safely go. Tell us about the space when we talk and we will advise.

What to show on your screens

Think of the questions people keep asking your staff, then put the answers on a screen. Things that work well:

• Directions to wards, departments and clinics
• Opening times and clinic changes
• What to bring and what to expect at an appointment
• Health campaigns and seasonal advice
• Reminders about hand washing and visiting rules
• Staff notices, but only in areas patients can't see

Keep each message short and calm. Many people in a waiting room are anxious already, so plain words help and a crowded slide don't. You can also set content ahead of time. A campaign starts on the day you pick and stops when it should, and nobody has to remember to take it down.

Stick to public information, like directions and opening times. Leave personal patient details off the screens. It is easier to manage and much safer to leave on display. We help you plan it this way from day one, as part of our digital signage solutions for healthcare.

Digital signage for hospitals

Hospitals are some of the hardest places to find your way around. There are many buildings, long corridors, and lifts that only go to certain floors. Visitors get lost and staff answer the same question again and again. Digital signage for hospitals helps because the directions sit right where people stop and decide which way to go.

Put screens at entrances and junctions to show where each department is. Waiting areas can carry updates and useful information while people sit there, which is where digital signage for hospital waiting areas earns its place. On the wards, visiting times and reminders stay current from one place.

A hospital has to talk to its own people as well. Screens in staff areas can show rota changes, training dates, policy updates and a thank-you message now and then. One team can run the patient screens and the staff screens together, and each screen only shows what its own audience needs.

Clear, calm and easy to read

Patients can be unwell, tired or worried. Some find reading hard. So use big text, strong contrast and short sentences, and more people will get the message at one glance. We help you plan layouts with this in mind. Need content in more than one language? Say so when we talk and we will go through what's possible.

Good digital signage for healthcare should bring stress down, not push it up. A screen that feels cluttered is usually carrying too many messages. Cut some.

One system for every site, simple for busy teams

LiveSpace is our cloud-based software. We built it ourselves and our UK team supports it, so when you ring us you talk to the people who work on it every day.

With LiveSpace you can:

• Run all your screens and all your sites from one dashboard
• Plan content ahead, or change it in a few seconds
• Hook up live data feeds so screens update by themselves
• Check how your content is doing through analytics

It fits one clinic with a few screens, and it fits a hospital group with lots of sites. Start small and add screens later. That is what we think digital signage solutions for hospitals should be, a system that grows as the site does.

Healthcare teams are stretched thin, so changing a screen has to be quick. Once it's installed, we monitor your network, give same-day support from our headquarters in Gloucestershire and keep the platform up to date. Your IT or information governance people might have questions about hosting, access or data. Bring them to the consultation and we will answer straight. Digital signage for healthcare should take work off your team, not give them more.

Who we work with

MRG Systems works with more than 100 organisations in retail, healthcare, transport, education, hospitality and corporate workplaces. [Add one or two lines on a healthcare client and the result, once the wording is approved.

Outside healthcare, Places Leisure swapped its posters and leaflets for more than 43 LiveSpace screens. They reported engagement up by 60 percent across their 100,000 members. Same thinking works in a hospital or clinic: replace the notices people walk past with something they actually notice. 

From first call to live screens

Setting up digital signage for healthcare goes in four steps. We follow the same ones on every project.

1. Free consultation. We hear your goals, look at what you have now and suggest the right way forward.
2. Solution design. We plan the hardware, the content and the LiveSpace setup for your site.
3. Installation. Our UK engineers install every screen and get it all working.
4. Ongoing support. Same-day help, network monitoring and regular platform updates.

The steps don't change whether you need digital signage solutions for hospitals or just something for a small surgery.

Talk to us about digital signage for healthcare

Tell us about your site, your teams, and what patients and visitors need to see. We will listen, look at what you have now and show you how LiveSpace can help. Our UK team can talk through digital signage solutions for healthcare, whether it's one clinic or a whole hospital.