What you actually get
Not a content-management system. The things a clinic needs so staff do not have to
remember, walk, or drive back.
On screen in 15 seconds
Screens hold an open connection. Fifteen seconds is the floor if that connection
has dropped — the screen is still asking.
No patient information
A push is a screen and a file. Six columns, none of them a person. No EHR
connection, and no way to add one.
Plays when the network does not
Every file lives on the player’s own disk. The network carries the instruction,
never the video. Waiting rooms keep playing.
Puts itself back. Twice.
The video ending, and a deadline on the push. Own length plus a minute, never
more than ten. One mechanism failing is not enough.
The wall stays in step
Every screen works out what to play from the clock. No messages between them. A
rebooted screen rejoins mid-slot.
A reboot is a clean slate
Only the playlist survives a restart. The previous patient’s video is never
waiting for the next person who sits down.
Dark when you are closed
Set practice hours; televisions switch off and on against your local clock. Any
one screen can also be switched from the console.
Filed by field of care
Kidney stones, BPH, prostate cancer — find the piece by the condition, not by a
folder of filenames.
WiFi when a cable cannot run
Ethernet is the design. A room without a cable can join WiFi from the console. If
it cannot reach Medcast, it puts the old network back.
Fix it without the closet
Each player checks in every minute. Resync files, restart the browser, or reboot
a screen from the console.
Sound is opt-in
A video can be marked to play with audio. Everything else is silent, so a waiting
room never starts talking.
Your televisions
Any standard HDMI set. Medcast is the small player behind it. Named playlists per
room if the waiting area should differ.