Healthcare Digital Signage Solutions
Digital signage, directories and wayfinding for hospitals, clinics and health services across Australia.
Healthcare signage does more than display information. It guides patients and visitors, eases waiting-room stress, calls patients to clinic, and keeps staff informed, all from one central point of control. Whether you run a single clinic or a statewide health network, Five Faces medical and hospital signage helps you deliver the right message, on the right screen, at the right time.
What is Healthcare Digital Signage?
Healthcare digital signage is an umbrella term for the digital screens placed throughout a hospital or clinic, in both public and staff-facing areas. It covers waiting-room displays, digital directories, wayfinding screens, queue calling displays and internal communication boards.
Unlike static posters or a standard TV, content on a digital signage network can be scheduled, updated and translated instantly, then sent to a single screen or hundreds at once from central management. That makes medical signage a practical way to keep information current across departments, sites and whole health districts without manual reprinting or on-site changes.
Consistent, instant communication across hospitals and clinics
Enhance waiting rooms, public areas, staffrooms and foundation offices, and gain central control to schedule content to a single clinic or a range of hospital locations.
Gain central control over messaging
Control screens remotely and make updates in seconds.
Uplift the patient experience
Guide patients, streamline queues and create calmer waiting rooms.
Automate patient journeys
Extend digital touchpoints before, during and after the day of the health service, connected to the wider digital front door.
Meet health enterprise needs
Built for integration, uptime, data security and privacy, and reporting.
Digital Signage for Every Healthcare Setting
Healthcare signage is not one-size-fits-all. The content, layout and integrations differ between a large acute hospital and a single-room clinic, and Five Faces signage adapts to each.
- Hospitals and health networks: hospital signage across waiting rooms, foyers, wards and staff areas, with zoning and queue calling integrated on the same screens.
- Specialist and outpatient clinics: targeted, department-specific content managed centrally with templates for local teams.
- Physio and allied health: physio digital signage for reception and treatment areas, sharing appointment information, exercise and education content, and clinic updates.
- Dental practices: dental digital signage for waiting areas and reception, combining patient education, service information and calming content.
- Aged care and community health: calm, accessible content suited to lounge and waiting areas.
Digital Signage Displays
Enhance waiting rooms, public areas, staffrooms and more. Schedule content centrally, overlay queue calling, and zone a single screen so it can show a calling display alongside calming or educational content at the same time.
Queue Calling Displays
Use digital signage to overlay calling displays for queue management, automated to trigger when the clinician is ready for the patient. Calling displays reduce crowding at reception and give patients a clear, low-stress cue when it is their turn.
Digital Directories
Create static directory boards or interactive touchscreens with maps and wayfinding to guide patients and visitors quickly. Digital directories sit naturally alongside signage on the same platform, so a screen in a foyer can act as both a directory and a communication board.
Wayfinding
Getting patients where they need to go, easily and confidently, reduces missed appointments and eases pressure on reception. Signage supports wayfinding through location maps and interactive directories, and extends to full mobile navigation for indoor and outdoor spaces.
Wayfinding is a solution in its own right at Five Faces. For photo-based, phone-led navigation integrated with appointment and visit information, see the dedicated digital wayfinding page.
Why Choose Five Faces for Healthcare Signage
Five Faces works with hospitals and health services across Australia and can supply, install and support the full solution. Signage, directories, wayfinding and queue management run on the one configurable DX5 platform, so screens can be zoned and content managed consistently across departments and sites. Five Faces builds for the integration, uptime, security and approval requirements that come with health enterprise environments.
See how signage fits alongside the wider health solutions that guide patients across their care journey.
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A white paper on how to engage hospital stakeholders in the physical healthcare environment using Digital Signage, including use cases, types of digital signage and how the technology works.
Watch The Digital Signage demo
This demo video gives an overview of the Five Faces digital signage solution in a healthcare setting, including uploading content, creating a campaign, zoning screen content and configuration. Watch the demo.
Healthcare experts, full services
Enhance digital signage with wayfinding that ranges from simple location maps, to interactive displays with directories, to full mobile navigation for indoor and outdoor spaces.
Frequently asked questions
What digital signs are used in a hospital?
Hospitals and healthcare facilities use a wide range of digital signage, including digital displays in waiting rooms, interactive directories for wayfinding, queue calling displays and kiosks, and internal communication screens for staff. Together, these help guide patients and visitors, improve wayfinding, and deliver real-time information across the facility.
What types of healthcare digital signage does Five Faces offer?
Five Faces provides tailored healthcare signage for hospitals, clinics and allied health. This includes digital displays for waiting rooms, patient education and visitor communication, interactive digital directories and kiosks for wayfinding and check-in, and staff communication screens for internal updates, safety alerts and scheduling. The goal is to improve the patient and visitor experience while helping teams manage communication across multiple locations.
Can digital signage be used in physio and dental clinics?
Yes. Physio digital signage and dental digital signage use the same platform as hospital signage, scaled to a smaller setting. Reception and treatment-area screens can show appointment information, patient education, service information and calming content, all managed centrally. Smaller practices can often start with a single screen and expand as needs grow.
What are the benefits of healthcare digital signage?
Healthcare signage improves patient engagement through dynamic content and health education, enhances wayfinding with interactive directories and directional screens, and supports the timely communication of health, safety and emergency alerts. It also reduces perceived waiting times by showing engaging, relevant content in waiting areas, and keeps staff informed in real time. The result is a better patient experience and more efficient operations.
How much does healthcare digital signage cost?
The cost depends on the type of solution, screen size, and integration requirements. Many facilities can repurpose existing displays using the Five Faces software, which reduces setup costs. For a tailored quote aligned with your facility’s needs and budget, contact Five Faces. We work closely with local teams to make sure the signage network delivers real results.
How is signage customised for different facilities and departments?
Five Faces signage adapts to facilities from small clinics to large hospitals. Customisation includes department-specific content via central management with templates for local teams, integration with existing healthcare systems for real-time information, branding aligned to your facility, multi-language support for diverse patient populations, location-based content by screen placement, and the scalability to expand across departments and sites over time.
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Five Faces supplies, installs and supports digital signage, directories and wayfinding for hospitals and health services across Australia, all on one configurable platform.
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