What is a hospital-grade television?
Posted on Thu, Aug 26, 2010
Hospital-grade televisions and consumer-grade televisions share many characteristics. However, hospital-grade televisions must meet more stringent requirements for use in patient rooms and are tested by Underwriter Laboratores to be "UL-Listed".
Hospital-grade televisions offer many more features than consumer-grade televisions.
Nurse Call Interface
Hospital-grade televisions have pillow speaker connections built-in to accommodate the use of pillow speakers, which are integrated with nurse call systems. Pillow speakers allow patients and staff to communicate inside the hospital.
Cleaning
Hospital-grade televisions can be cleaned with special cleaners such as Viraguard to promote a healthy environment.
Clone Progamming
Because tens or hundreds of TVs are often installed at one time in hospitals, programming televisions to the hospital's liking can be time consuming. Cloning TV settings speeds up installation time dramatically. Most hospital-grade televisions have USB cloning capabilities, meaning the settings can saved to a USB flash drive and loaded onto each TV within seconds.
Longevity
Hospital-grade TVs are made to endure more use than consumer-grade televisions.
Warranty
Hospital-grade televisions typically have a two year warranty, which is substantially longer than consumer-grade televisions.
Other Unique Features
- Rounded corners for patient and staff safety
- Front button keypad
- Thin client capabilities
- IPTV/ multimedia capabilities
- FM Radio
- Battery-backed clock
- Upgradeable hardware and software
For more information on HCI's hospital-grade televisions, visit www.hci-tv.com.