Patient Education and Entertainment with Android TV
Posted on Wed, Dec 07, 2011
There are powerful reasons to place an Android TV into patient hospital rooms.
The new smart TV options present a wide variety of ways to entertain patients and help diminish the stress that comes with being admitted to the hospital. With the Android TV options, every patient can remain connected with the internet and with Web 2.0 features, even when resting in the hospital.
Android TVs also present another way to educate patients. Patients can receive educational content on demand and access Android apps for educational purposes.
The new Android TV has a very high focus capacity; they include Interactive TV, Internet TV, unbelievable content options, on-demand streaming media options and more. With less focus on more traditional television viewing broadcast media, the newer options provide more connectivity and entertainment value than the more standardized traditional television does today.
Using a similar strategy to the internet using web widgets; web widgets and other software applications have been integrated into modern smart phones. This combination is how "Smart TV" came to be a commonly used term. There is now broad availability for technology today for smart Android TV, including set-up boxes, Blu-ray players, gaming consoles, hotel and hospital interconnected systems along with other companion devices.
The companion devices made available with Android TV include allowing viewers to search for and find whatever content they want or need. Be it video's, photo galleries, movies, something on a local cable TV channel, something less-local on a satellite streaming TV channel or even something stored on a local hard drive, the choices are now more spectacular and useful than ever before.
Android TV is a TV tuner box. It is also a Media player and a Netbook. It is a digital photo frame and a game console. It is an internet set-top that can provide a new form and variety of television entertainment. It offers an unprecedented internet TV experience.
Android TV is an open source system. This feature can make your home or hospital and/or waiting room TV an internet TV with a wide array of options for all users. Healthcare facilities can write their own apps or download apps they suggest to their patients, whether they be games for children, nutritional apps for patients with special diets, or any other apps the healthcare facility sees would educate and entertain patients.
HCI's Generation III Android TV brings cutting edge technology to the patient room. In the midst of creating better patient outcomes and providing a better patient experience, this new technology offers a myriad of ways to assist healthcare facilities in reaching their objectives.
Learn more about HCI's Generation III Android-powered TVs.