Hospital digital signage

Hospital digital signage, from the front door to the pharmacy counter.

Healthcare digital signage for hospitals, clinic networks, dental groups and pharmacies. One company does the whole job: survey, screens, mounts, install, software and monitoring.

  • One company, survey to support
  • Multi-site clinic rollouts
  • No PHI on patient-facing screens
Illustrative content concept
CEDAR / HEALTHWELCOME TO OUR CENTER

Let’s get you to the right place.

Please check in at reception first.

Department directory

Primary careLevel 01 · turn left
ImagingLevel 02 · follow the blue signs
LaboratoryLevel 01 · turn right
Medical reception · department directions

A static directory and welcome loop can stand alone. Patient queue connections need separate scoping and an anonymous display format.

Fictional brand and sample content. Schedules, prices, and directions are illustrative.

What is healthcare digital signage?

Healthcare digital signage covers waiting-room information screens, patient education displays, queue management, wayfinding, and pharmacy dispensary boards installed in hospitals, clinics, dental practices, and retail pharmacies. The system must respect HIPAA — no patient names, DOBs, or chart numbers on public screens. CrownTV ships clinical-grade commercial panels with cleanable finishes, software scoped so EHR data never leaves the back of house, role-based Dashboard permissions separating patient-facing from staff-facing content, and SAML SSO for hospital IT. Anonymous queue identifiers handle pharmacy and exam-room signage without exposing PHI.

A walk through the facility

Digital signage for hospitals, zone by zone.

Four walls where a screen earns its place. Pick a zone.

Installer elevation drawing of a portrait 55-inch hospital lobby directory screen with its mounting heights, mount depth, and outlet location.
Installer drawing · how we mark a lobby directory on siteFull size drawing (opens in a new tab) ↗

Front door

Entrance & lobby wayfinding

Visitors arrive unsure where to go. A portrait directory you update from the Dashboard saves the front desk from giving the same directions all day. We keep the mount shallow for the ADA protruding-object rule.

On the screen
Department directory, visiting hours, today's clinic changes, a facility-wide alert slot.
Display spec
55" commercial display, portrait · low-profile mount ≤ 4" deep · main lobby
How digital wayfinding works →
Real CrownTV install at an Upperline Health clinic: a wall-mounted screen above the check-in window showing the Upperline Plus welcome slide and phone number.
Real CrownTV install · Upperline Health clinic check-in

Where every patient looks

Above the check-in window

The one wall every patient faces. In the Upperline Health clinics we install, it carries the clinic's own program and its scheduling number, so the line at the window doubles as an introduction.

On the screen
The clinic's services, a scheduling number, short explainers to read in line.
Display spec
43" commercial display · landscape · centered over the reception window
Real CrownTV install at an Upperline Health clinic waiting room: a wall-mounted screen showing the care team's photos above three chairs, next to a patient-information easel.
Real CrownTV install · Upperline Health clinic waiting room

Longest dwell time

Waiting room screens patients actually watch

Make the loop about this clinic: who the providers are, what it offers, what happens next. Silent and captioned beats a TV channel, because nobody has to hear it.

On the screen
The care team's faces and names, the clinic's services, short silent explainers. No PHI, ever.
Display spec
43"–55" commercial display · landscape · visible from every seat
Waiting room TV in depth →
Installer elevation drawing of a 43-inch now-serving board above a pharmacy pickup counter, showing a 36-inch accessible counter section and a screen mounted above 80 inches.
Installer drawing · how we mark a now-serving board on siteFull size drawing (opens in a new tab) ↗

Dispensary counter

Pharmacy queue & now-serving boards

Anonymous queue IDs keep the line moving with no names on screen. If the read-only queue feed drops, the board falls back to the vaccine slides on the health calendar.

On the screen
Now-serving numbers, ready alerts by queue ID, immunization promos.
Display spec
43" commercial display · landscape · bottom edge above 80" over the counter

Also on the same network

  • Hospital patient room displays Care-team names, the day's schedule, education. Nothing patient-specific without your compliance team's sign-off.
  • Cafeteria menu boards Menus, allergen flags, hours, blood-drive and vaccine-clinic notices.
  • Donor recognition walls Rotate honorees and add new gifts without re-engraving a plaque.
  • Dental & medical offices Smaller screens for waiting areas and treatment rooms.
What we do best

One company, the whole job.

Software-only vendors sell the loop. Step through what it takes to get one screen playing in a clinic, and watch whose to-do list grows.

Installer drawing of a filled-in CrownTV site survey sheet for one screen: sightline, light, wall, mount height, power, network, signal, access and photos.
Installer drawing · our survey sheet, one per screenFull size drawing (opens in a new tab) ↗

Stage 1 of 6

Site survey

CrownTV does it

We survey every site: the wall, the outlet, the Wi-Fi, the sightline, and any working TV already on the wall.

A software-only vendor leaves you

You measure the wall, find the outlet and email photos.

Wall-mounted screen in an Upperline Health clinic showing the Meet Upperline Plus care-team slide.
Real CrownTV install · Upperline Health clinic

Stage 2 of 6

Commercial display, sourced and shipped

CrownTV does it

We source the commercial display, Samsung with a 3-year commercial warranty, and ship it to the site.

A software-only vendor leaves you

Bring your own screens, and handle the warranty claims.

Installer drawing of a wall section behind a 43-inch screen: plywood blocking between metal studs, the outlet behind the screen, the media player on the mount and Cat6 up the wall.
Installer drawing · what we check behind the screenFull size drawing (opens in a new tab) ↗

Stage 3 of 6

A mount matched to the wall

CrownTV does it

We match the mount to the wall and the screen: wood stud, metal stud with blocking, or masonry. Never on glass.

A software-only vendor leaves you

You pick a mount and find out on install day whether the wall agrees.

Real CrownTV install at an Upperline Health clinic: a screen mounted above the check-in window.
Real CrownTV install · Upperline Health clinic check-in

Stage 4 of 6

Licensed, insured technician install

CrownTV does it

Licensed, insured technicians work around clinic hours and confirm the outlet before they drill. Outlets are your side; we don't do electrical.

A software-only vendor leaves you

Hire, schedule and supervise an AV installer yourself.

An existing clinic TV on a wall mount playing the Upperline Health care-team loop from a CrownTV media player.
Real CrownTV install · existing TV + CrownTV media player

Stage 5 of 6

Player set up before it ships, content loaded

CrownTV does it

The media player is set up and named for its site before it ships. We load the loop, and our team can design the content.

A software-only vendor leaves you

A license key. You pair players on site and build every slide.

Installer markup of the CrownTV Dashboard monitoring page: last connection, a green or red connection dot, a log download and a screenshot request for each display.
Installer drawing · how we read the Monitoring pageFull size drawing (opens in a new tab) ↗

Stage 6 of 6

Monitoring with offline alerts

CrownTV does it

Every player reports to the Dashboard and an offline screen raises an alert. We respond within 2 business hours and swap a media player within 48 hours.

A software-only vendor leaves you

Once the screens light up, support is a new ticket queue.

Your to-do list with a software-only vendor 7 jobs

  1. Measure every wall
  2. Buy and ship screens
  3. Choose mounts
  4. Hire an installer
  5. Pair players, build slides
  6. Chase outages
  7. Have the outlet ready

Your to-do list with CrownTV 1 job

  1. Have the outlet ready

We don't do electrical. Everything else on that list is ours.

The side-by-side: CrownTV vs. a signage-software vendor

Part of the job CrownTV Typical signage vendor
Scope Displays, mounts, media players, install, software and support under one contract A software subscription. Hardware, install and content are yours to sort out
Site survey Every site surveyed: wall, outlet, Wi-Fi, any working TV already there You measure the wall and send photos
Display sourcing Commercial displays sourced and shipped to each site, Samsung 3-year commercial warranty Bring your own screens
Mount fit & install Mount matched to the wall and screen; vetted technicians, scheduled around clinic hours Hire and manage an AV installer yourself
Player & software Media player set up and named per site before it ships; content managed from one Dashboard A license key. You pair players on site
Multi-site rollout Pilot first, then waves; one site code on every box, player and report; photo close-out per site Not part of the product
HIPAA discipline Anonymous queue IDs, patient/staff permission scopes, audit logs, read-only anonymized feeds Generic CMS with no PHI guardrails. Compliance review falls on you
After go-live Monitoring with offline alerts, response within 2 business hours, 48-hour media-player swaps Once screens light up, support is a new ticket queue
Multi-site rollout

How we roll out a clinic network.

How we run the waiting-room program for Upperline Health. Same four steps at every clinic.

  • Pilot first
  • State-by-state waves
  • Georgia first full wave, Sept 2026
  • 1 site code per clinic
  • 7 photos per close-out
  1. Upperline Health clinic waiting room with a wall-mounted screen and three chairs, the kind of wall the site survey records.
    Upperline Health clinic · what the survey records

    Survey every clinic

    Working TV with a free HDMI input? Where's the outlet, what's the Wi-Fi, when can a technician get in? The answers sort each site into a kit.

  2. An existing clinic TV on a wall mount playing the Upperline Health care-team loop from a CrownTV media player.
    Real install · existing TV + CrownTV media player

    Pick the kit, site by site

    Working TV: a media player only. No TV: a new 32″ or 43″ commercial screen package. One site code on the box, the player, the work order and the photos.

  3. Wall-mounted screen in an Upperline Health clinic showing the Meet Upperline Plus care-team slide.
    Real install · Upperline Health clinic

    Install on clustered routes

    Technicians run routes of nearby clinics and check in by GPS. The outlet is confirmed before anyone drills.

  4. Clinic screen playing the Upperline Plus pharmacist explainer about a patient named Henry reviewing his medications.
    Real install · content live on handover

    Close out with proof

    Content playing, then seven close-out photos with no patients in frame. From then on, an offline screen raises an alert.

Installer drawing of a rollout wave schedule: a pilot of 5 to 10 sites, a pilot review, then waves by region where the next kit ships while the current wave installs, followed by blocked-site return visits and close-out.
Installer drawing · pilot first, then waves. The full checklist is in our digital signage rollout checklist and site survey guide.
Try it

Build a waiting room loop.

Pick what plays. The screen runs a 30-second preview: silent, captioned, and about this clinic.

  • Silent, captions on. The person nearest the screen didn't pick the volume.
  • Wait info stays up. Queue or delay news sits in a strip, not a slide.
  • Full loop ≈ your average wait. 20–30 minutes, so most patients see it once.
Example loop Silent

Meet your care team

The people you'll see today

Also at this clinic

Flu shots · Lab work · Medication reviews

Health tip

Bring a list of every medication you take

Pharmacist program

A pharmacist can review all your medications with you

CCOur nurse practitioners, pharmacist and front desk team.

Now serving A-104 Running about 10 min behind. Thanks for waiting.

No PHI, ever: no names, no appointment times, nothing from the chart.

Real CrownTV install at an Upperline Health clinic: a wall screen playing a silent patient story about the Upperline Plus pharmacist service.
The real thing: an Upperline Plus pharmacist explainer, silent, in an Upperline Health clinic. More in our waiting room ideas.
Back of house

Staff screens, on a separate scope.

Break rooms, nurse stations and staff corridors run their own loops from the same Dashboard used for internal communications.

  • Nurse stations & huddle boards

    Census, on-call and shift priorities where the care team stands.

  • Break rooms

    Recognition, benefits deadlines and training reminders staff actually see.

  • Safety & quality metrics

    Days since incident, hand hygiene, quality scores, where the work happens.

  • A separate scope

    Staff loops never share a permission scope with patient screens.

Emergency override

One trigger overrides every screen in the facility.

Code alerts, severe weather, lockdown, evacuation. One trigger takes over every scheduled loop at once.

  • Trigger from the CrownTV Dashboard, or via API from your alerting platform
  • Patient-facing and staff-facing screens alike, facility-wide or campus-wide
  • Wired during install, not bolted on later. Test it monthly
WAITING ROOM · NOW SERVING A-102  ·  A-103  ·  B-047 Flu-shot clinic Friday at the pharmacy, no appointment needed
Turnkey pricing

One number per screen. Everything included.

Display, mount, media player, install, setup and the first year of software. No second quote from an installer.

43" $3,150 per screen, all-in Check-in windows · queue boards
50" $3,250 per screen, all-in Waiting rooms · staff areas
55" $3,450 per screen, all-in Waiting rooms · lobby directories
65" $4,550 per screen, all-in Lobby welcome · donor walls
75" $4,950 per screen, all-in Main lobby · atrium

Every package includes

  • Commercial-grade 4K display (500-nit, 24/7-rated)
  • Tamper-resistant mount, clearance-checked with facilities
  • CrownTV media player
  • Licensed, insured technician install
  • Configuration + content setup
  • First year of CrownTV Dashboard software

Indoor pricing only

500-nit panels for lobbies, waiting rooms, corridors and cafeterias. Window-facing and outdoor screens are quoted separately. Clinic networks and 20+ screen rollouts get volume pricing.

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Price it in 30 seconds

What will healthcare digital signage cost for my clinic?

How many screens

$3,450 installed

  • Commercial 4K UHD display
  • Wall, menu or tilt mount
  • CrownTV media player
  • Professional installation
  • First year of content software

From our published per-screen prices. Typically installed 5–7 business days after the paid invoice, sooner available.

Email me this estimate

Or call (347) 410-6890. A person replies within 2 business hours.

  • Samsung 3-year commercial warranty, and we coordinate any claim for you
  • No site visit needed to price it: photos and a few quick questions

Response in 2 business hours. A person replies, no drip campaign.

Real installed budgets

What a clinic or hospital costs, installed

Worked examples built only from our published per-screen prices. Each price covers the commercial display, mount, media player, licensed install and the first year of software. Software after year one is $20/screen/month; installs typically land 5–7 business days after the paid invoice.

Single clinic

  • 1 × 55"waiting-room screen$3,450
  • 1 × 43"check-in / queue screen$3,150

2 screens, installed$6,600

Software from year two: $40/month.

Hospital lobby and floor

  • 2 × 65"lobby wayfinding and welcome screens$9,100
  • 4 × 55"waiting-area screens$13,800
  • 1 × 43"nurse-station / staff board$3,150

7 screens, installed$26,050

Software from year two: $140/month.

10-clinic rollout

  • 10 × the single clinic kit$66,000
  • One project plan, one Dashboard, one contractincluded

20 screensvolume pricing

List-price math before volume pricing.

Per-screen ladder: 32″ $2,950 · 43″ $3,150 · 55″ $3,450 · 65″ $4,550 · 75″ $4,950 · 85″ $5,850 · 98″ $9,950.

HIPAA-aware by design

PHI never lands on a patient-facing screen.

Names, dates of birth and chart numbers don't belong on a public screen. We set it up so they can't get there.

  • Anonymous IDs only. Queue numbers or initials from your queue system. Never a full name, never a hint of a diagnosis.
  • Separate scopes. Patient-facing and staff-facing loops live in separate Dashboard permission scopes.
  • Audit-friendly. Access logs show who changed what and when. Feeds near the EHR are read-only and anonymized, reviewed with your compliance team before go-live.

Who does what

Software-only, display reseller, or turnkey: who covers the clinic install

Most healthcare signage software stops at the dashboard. The clinic still has to buy screens, find an installer, run power and network to each waiting room, and chase warranty claims. Here is the split by provider type.

Part of the rolloutSoftware-only platformDisplay store or resellerCrownTV turnkey
Site survey and screen placement planNot offeredNot offeredIncluded
Power and network cabling to each screenNot offeredNot offeredIncluded
Commercial displays rated for 24/7 dutyNot offeredIncludedIncluded
High-brightness displays for windows and sunlit spacesNot offeredSometimesIncluded
Wall, ceiling and portrait mountsNot offeredSometimesIncluded
Media playerSometimesSometimesIncluded
Content management softwareIncludedNot offeredIncluded
Licensed, insured installationNot offeredNot offeredIncluded
Content templates and designSometimesNot offeredIncluded
Multi-location rollout project managementNot offeredNot offeredIncluded
Screen monitoring and media-player replacementSometimesNot offeredIncluded
Manufacturer warranty claims coordinated for youNot offeredSometimesIncluded

Provider types are general categories; individual vendors vary. CrownTV runs 16,000+ screens for 1,800+ operators and has deployed 10,000+ commercial displays since 2012.

Field guide

Hardware, rollout and the mistakes we see in clinics

Which screen goes where in a clinical building, how a 100-clinic network rolls out without chaos, and the five errors that sink healthcare deployments.

PlacementWhat we installWhy
Waiting roomsSamsung QM43C–QM55C500-nit 4K, rated for 24/7 duty, no consumer menus for visitors to change
Queue / wait-time boardsQM43C, landscape or portraitCrisp text at reading distance; fed from the queue system
Wayfinding / directoriesQMC portrait, touch optionalVertical content; touch adds self-service lookup
Staff stations / break roomsQM43C–QM50CReadable across the room; permissioned staff feed
Street-facing / ER wait signsOM / OH high-brightness series2,500–3,000+ nits; standard panels vanish in daylight

Clinical details that matter: closed, fanless media players where infection control frowns on dust-movers; bezels that tolerate hospital-grade cleaners; and every screen on its own media player so content survives a network hiccup. A frozen “now serving” board is worse than none.

How a multi-clinic rollout actually works

  1. Standardize the clinic kit. Same screen count, sizes and mounts per site type, so every clinic installs identically.
  2. Stage centrally. Hardware is pre-configured and enrolled before it ships, so devices arrive tested.
  3. Install in waves. Scheduled around clinic hours, each site closed out with a verification report: photos, network check, content live.
  4. Governance from day one. Templates locked and local publishing rights assigned before launch, not after the first off-brand flyer.

Common healthcare signage mistakes

  • Cable news as default content. It raises room tension and wastes the one audience guaranteed to be watching.
  • PHI-adjacent queue formats. Full names on a lobby board is a complaint waiting to happen. First name plus last initial, minimum.
  • Consumer TVs on 14-hour clinical duty. Warranty-voided, burned out inside two years, and their menus get “adjusted” by visitors.
  • No per-screen permissions. The census board must be impossible to publish to the waiting room.
  • Buying screens before governance. 130 clinics with unrestricted logins is not a network; it is 130 liabilities with the same logo.
Plugs into your clinical stack

Tools we plug into for healthcare

Read-only, anonymized integrations only — we never display PHI on patient-facing screens. Staff-facing rotations live on a separate Dashboard scope.

  • Epic (read-only feed) EHR
  • Oracle Health (Cerner) EHR
  • QGenda Workforce
  • Symplr Workforce
  • Microsoft Teams Comms
  • ServiceNow Ops
  • Genesys / NICE Queue
  • Microsoft Outlook Calendar

We never display PHI on patient-facing screens. All EHR-adjacent integrations are read-only, anonymized, and reviewed with your compliance team before go-live.

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Frequently asked

Hospital digital signage — FAQ

How much does hospital digital signage cost?
CrownTV's turnkey hospital signage packages run $3,150 per screen for a 43-inch display, $3,250 for 50-inch, $3,450 for 55-inch, $4,550 for 65-inch, and $4,950 for 75-inch — all-in, including the commercial-grade display, mount, media player, professional installation, setup, and the first year of software. Pricing covers 500-nit indoor placements; window-facing and outdoor screens need high-brightness or sealed outdoor panels and are quoted separately. Multi-site clinic networks and 20+ screen hospital rollouts get volume pricing.
How do we get started with digital signage for our hospital?
Send us your screen count, buildings, and target zones (lobby, waiting rooms, pharmacy, staff areas) and we return a scoped turnkey quote within 2 business hours. From there: a site survey locks placements and mounting clearances with your facilities team, installs are scheduled around clinic hours so clinics don't pause, and a location is typically installed within 5–7 business days of the paid invoice. One contract covers hardware, install, software, and support.
How long does implementation take in a clinical environment?
Standard install is under one week per location from site survey. Installs in operational clinical environments are typically scheduled after-hours or on weekends to avoid patient disruption.
How do you handle HIPAA and PHI on patient-facing screens?
We design content that never displays PHI on patient-facing screens. For queue systems integrated with EHR data, we support API-driven anonymous identifiers (e.g. last 4 of patient #). Staff-facing content runs on a separate Dashboard scope.
What platform integrations do you support (EHR, queue, calendar)?
CrownTV Dashboard supports embedded URL feeds and API-driven content from queue management platforms. Scope your specific EHR/queue stack during the kickoff call.
Can you handle multi-location rollouts across a clinic or pharmacy chain?
Yes. Standardized hardware kits, a multi-location Dashboard view, and scoped permissions per facility, region, or department.
What's the SLA on support and replacement hardware?
Dedicated account manager, response within 2 business hours for urgent issues, 48-hour media-player replacement at no charge, and on-site installer dispatch for full-panel failures.
What signage is required by compliance in a healthcare waiting room?
HIPAA bars patient identifiers (names, dates of birth, chart numbers) from public-facing screens. Joint Commission and CMS Conditions of Participation require posted patient rights, language-access notices, infection-control reminders, and emergency wayfinding. CrownTV's Dashboard scopes content into patient-facing rotations (no PHI) and staff-facing rotations (back-of-house only). Anonymous queue identifiers handle EHR-linked dispensary and exam-room display without exposing protected health information. ADA-compliant mounting heights are standard.
What should be on a medical office waiting room TV?
Content that lowers perceived wait and works for the practice: queue status and honest wait times, health education matched to the specialty, provider introductions, service-line promotions such as flu clinics or imaging availability, and visitor information. Not cable news, which raises room tension and wastes the one audience guaranteed to be watching.
Ready when you are

Calmer waiting rooms, clearer wayfinding.

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