The Benefits of Digital Signage in Your Healthcare Practice
In health industry, some company has outdated office look like old-school and others company are keeping up with the trend and latest technologies…The customers now likely to go to modern vibes because they feel more excitement and comfortable… So, your company still need to upgrade it?
Yes! It’s time to upgrade to a new one but at a low-cost.
You can upgrade your company with a new appearance with the simple element which is digital signage.
But nowadays, a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 has become a global pandemic with the uncontrollable spreading trend transmitted by ‘respiratory droplets’.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said: “there are 4.7 million new cases were reported in the past week, a decline of 6% from last week, and the number of new deaths has climbed to a record high at 93 000, a 9% increase from last week”. The increasing number of positive cases has also caused heavy pressure on hospitals and clinics.
Under the COVID-19 coronavirus condition, many hospitals now use internet technology, patient’s temperature detection, and self-service queuing kiosk to reduce the hospital clinic pressure from an online and offline perspectives.
What Is Digital Signage?
Digital signage is a helpful tool for Healthcare Service. Digital signage is a media display screen that is placed in your healthcare facility to assist your staff.
The function of digital signage is to create an exciting experience for patients, increase wellness initiatives, and create a safer and more productive work environment.
It also helps healthcare staff to understand the value of using this technology to enhance the patient experience.
Thus, many clinics and hospitals began to use various forms of touchless solutions.
For example, KioWare and Asta Solution launched a solution that allowed customers to pull up a touchpad on their phones and interact with the kiosk that way. If you want to gain customers, you need to reach them on their terms.
Digital signage has many types includes different types some of the most common are:-
Here’s, we give these 5 ways health clinic or hospital which can benefit from digital signage technology.
How Does Digital Signage Benefit Patients?
Reduce Patient Anxiety
Some people have an uneasy feeling if they go to the clinic or hospital especially for kids. A clinic is one of the most anxious places to be.
However, to help reduce some of the patient’s uneasily feeling like stress, the clinic can do some move like improvements to their services.
Entertainment is one of healthcare practice in digital signage are use while waiting rooms and decrease perceived wait time. Thus, it also helps calm your patient’s mind.
Moreover, digital signage providing upbeat, entertaining, and attractive content helps reduce anxiety and restlessness before their appointment.
Waiting Times
Digital signage ability to display multiple forms of content, in fact, digital screens are not only informative but also more pleasant and enjoyable wait.
Healthcare facilities can entertain patients and visitors by providing engaging news, shows, relevant health information, or facility updates by use digital information boards.
When digital screens with engaging content are added to waiting rooms, it will reduce the waiting time for the patients.
Hence, the long waiting time becomes faster, for example, 30-minute can feel more like a 20-minute while waiting when patients are watching high-quality content that is targeted to their wants and needs.
Build a connection to staff
The patients like to know who they are working with before they go to the clinic for the health appointment.
Besides, digital signage will introduce your patients to your staff in an interesting way.
Thus, your team can create one introduction video on digital signage showing both the professional appreciation and personality of your staff.
It helps build a strong trusting relationship with your patients.
Easy for patient to search the building
If your clinic is located in a large building or hard to find, it can be harder for visitors to navigate. You can solve this problem by using interactive maps and directories near the entrance to your location, different from static maps such as interactive wayfinding tools.
This great tool will compact and personalizes information so that your visitors or patients only see the information they need, which helps them find their way more easily and faster.
Educate patients with shares important health-related information
The knowledge you can share our educational content such as wellness tips, treatment procedures, and medical advice that will make your patients become an informative person and healthier.
Your clinic can create short Informative videos for patients to watch while waiting to see the doctor or for their prescription.
However, this application is also widely used for Patient Education, “Prevention is better than Cure”.
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Raihan Ridzuan
Raihan Ridzuan , Bachelor of Science (Hons) Pharmacology, is Customer Relationship Customer of Mayflax , one of the nation’s leading healthcare and marketing company.
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