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Create Your Own Waiting Room TV: 4 Steps to a Professional Information Monitor for Your Medical Practice

Create your own waiting room TV with SignageNow

For many patients, the wait is the most stressful part of a doctor’s visit. But it doesn’t have to be that way! With a modern patient TV in the waiting room, you can turn idle time into valuable infotainment time.

In this guide, we’ll show you how we can work with you to set up a professional information monitor for your medical practice in just four simple steps—without any expensive specialized hardware.

Want to see what the result looks like? You’ll also find a ready-made demo playlist below!

Why a practice TV revolutionizes the wait time

A waiting room TV offers far more than just entertainment. It provides information about your services, introduces your team, and offers variety with the latest news. At SignageNow, we’ve developed the software to be GDPR-compliant and easy to use—no prior IT knowledge required.

Step-by-Step: Your Video Tutorial

Our video tutorial shows you step by step how to create your own waiting room TV with SignageNow. Watch the video here: Create your own waiting room TV with SignageNow.

Customize digital signage templates for your waiting room TV

Instructions: How to Set Up Your Waiting Room TV

1. Sign up for free on SignageNow

The first step is the easiest: Create a free account on our platform. We want you to be able to get started right away without having to sign up for a subscription. Once you’ve signed up, you’ll have immediate access to our dashboard, where you can centrally manage all your screens.

2. Upload media & select medical templates

Now it’s time to get creative! In our system, you can upload your own images and videos of your practice. We’re especially proud of our special templates for medical practices and hospitals.

Customize the design: You can change colors, text, and logos to perfectly match your practice’s design (corporate identity).
Pure infotainment: Integrate our news broadcast templates or weather display with just one click. This keeps your patients up to date while they wait for their treatment.

Create a waiting room TV display using SignageNow digital signage software

3. Create a Playlist & Set a Schedule

To ensure your Infomonitor runs autonomously all day long in your medical practice, create a playlist. Simply drag and drop your selected templates and media into the desired order.

Pro tip: Use our time scheduling feature to control the content. For example, display different information in the morning than you do just before the office closes. We make it easy for you to stay on top of things.
Data protection: Protect your playlist from unauthorized access with a username and password.

4. Open the playlist URL in your browser – Done!

That’s the beauty of SignageNow: Our software runs entirely in the browser. You don’t need any complicated installations. Just open the browser on your smart TV or an affordable streaming device (like the Fire TV Stick), enter your playlist’s URL, and your patient TV will start playing in the waiting room.

Need some help? Support & Demo Playlist

Want to see what’s possible first? Then take a look at our demo playlist for medical practices. There, you’ll find inspiration on how to create the perfect blend of practice information and news. Our support team is also happy to help with any questions you may have.

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