Bed & Nurse Call Connectivity

Digital Signage

PillowCase
Nurse call connected iPad case

PadLock
Floating Bedside iPad Case

BlackJack
Magnetic bed cable

SnapJack
Magnetic pillow speaker cable


Bed Connection Status

BlueJack
Wireless Bed Connectivity

HallMonitor with HatchMed software
Personalized patient precautions & bed data

HallMonitor with Epic Monitor
Native integration for contextual illumination

ComCierge
BYOD & hospital owned device compatible

Most digital signs
are still just signs.

HallMonitor connects the room.

From down the hall, staff can see which rooms need them most, then get the details at the door, pulled live from your EMR and clinical systems.

Inside the playbook: your software options for digital door signage and 10 questions to ask before you buy.

Going digital is the starting point. Not the finish line.

Paper signs, magnets and handwritten notices pile up fast. The average patient room carries almost 12 of them, and the one thing a nurse or visitor needs to see before walking in usually ends up buried at the bottom.

So hospitals are going digital. But a screen that someone still updates by hand, that sits apart from clinical systems and says nothing until you’re standing in front of it, is a digitized sign. The workflow hasn’t changed.

Hospital room door covered in paper precaution and isolation signs

Before, with paper signs

HallMonitor with a full patient screen and red light outside a patient room

After the HallMonitor upgrade

Updated by hand

Updates itself from your EHR

Readable only at the door

Shows from down the hall which rooms need you first

Separate from clinical systems

Integrates nurse call, bed safety and alarm status

Easy to miss when you’re rushing in

A light at the door that’s hard to miss when it matters

The average patient room carries 11.8 paper signs.1

1 Ameling JM, Landis-Lewis Z, Hirth L, See M, Meddings J. Describing Hospital Room Signage: Implications for Digital Interventions to Improve Patient Safety. Hospital Medicine 2020, Abstract 26. University of Michigan.

The light does the triage.
The screen explains it.

See which rooms need you first.

From the end of the hall, the light around each sign shows which rooms need someone now and which are fine for the moment, so staff can go where they’re needed first. At the door, when someone’s rushing in, an urgent status is hard to miss.

Our clinical team works with yours to decide, hospital-wide or unit by unit, which statuses need the most attention and which can wait. Rules can combine EMR, nurse call, bed and alarm data, and they grow and change with your needs. Here's one example.

The patient is safe and stable, the bed is connected and alarms are set.

Something needs a look soon. For example, a patient weight order is long past due, or a turn timer has expired.

Needs urgent attention. For example, a high fall-risk patient has called for the bathroom several times and the bed exit alarm isn't armed.

HallMonitor at room 316 with a green light on top
HallMonitor at room 314 with an orange light on top
HallMonitor at room 312 with a red light all the way around
A nurse touches the screen of a HallMonitor sign for room 201A, glowing green.

Your signs and protocols, now digital.

HallMonitor carries over what your hospital has already built: your signage protocols and designs, and the language, icons and steps your staff are trained to follow before entering a room. The processes your infection control team designed and approved move straight onto the screen, so nobody has to relearn them.

Need more than the sign shows? Staff can tap their badge on the optional built-in RFID reader to see additional details, shown only to authenticated users.

Time back for the people doing the work.

Keeping paper signs accurate is a job nobody signed up for: read the chart, find the right sign, tape it to the door, repeat whenever something changes. Here’s what changed when hospitals stopped doing it by hand.

380 min1

a day back at the bedside on an average 40-bed unit. That’s the time staff used to spend keeping paper door signs accurate, or trying to.

2,300 hrs1

of staff time a year that can go back into patient care, and toward a more satisfied, less burned-out care team.

~10 mo

for the hardware and software to pay for themselves on sign-updating time alone, before the safety and workflow gains.

90%2

fewer accidental walk-ins to isolation rooms after a hospital-wide rollout, because the HallMonitor light shows isolation status automatically, right at the door.

1 Based on average customer deployments on standard-size hospital units. Results vary with unit size and workflow. A custom ROI calculator is available, and we can run a tailored before-and-after study of HallMonitor on your units.

2 Results observed on units with many isolation patients, as recorded by care team members and visitors entering rooms before and after HallMonitor replaced standard paper signs.

Two ways to run it.

HallMonitor is the hardware. You choose the software that runs on it, and you can change software later without replacing a single sign.

HallMonitor running HatchMed software on a patient room door, with an orange status light

HatchMed software

Native HallMonitor software, built to get the most out of the hardware. Icons, colors, language and layout follow your existing workflows and approved isolation and staff protocols, and rules can combine EMR, nurse call, bed and alarm data into one signal.

Included

  • White-glove setup and ongoing support as your needs change
  • Rules engine with full LED customization
  • Your existing signage recreated on screen, in Spanish, French and other languages
  • Nurse call and bed data on the sign
  • Optional RFID badge tap for authenticated staff details

Your EMR stays the source of truth. We scope the connections together during deployment.

Nurse reading an Epic Monitor screen on HallMonitor

Epic Monitor

Epic Monitor is included with most Epic deployments. If your hospital has it, all you need is HallMonitor at the door. Epic Monitor runs on the iPad inside, shows patient information and drives the lights through Epic CER rules.

It’s plug-and-play: it works out of the box with Epic’s standard layouts, with no setup or design work required.

How it splits

  • Your Epic team configures the rules and colors
  • Native support for the LED lights and the optional built-in RFID staff badge reader
  • HatchMed supplies and supports the hardware
  • Patient data stays in Epic

Epic and Epic Monitor are registered trademarks of Epic Systems Corporation.

The only healthcare-grade digital door sign.

UL certified, FDA registered and a Red Dot Award winner.

UL CertifiedRed Dot Award winner
Raised room number and Grade 2 braille on the HallMonitor faceplate

ADA braille and room number built in

The raised room number and Grade 2 braille are part of the device, so it can replace the room’s ADA sign. The number plate is magnetic, so it’s easy to swap if rooms change.

HallMonitor with a wood-finish accent plate

Made to match your hospital

Body and accent colors come from any paint library. Try finishes in the configurator

HallMonitor UL listing label

UL certified and FDA registered

Listed to UL 62368 and registered with the FDA, with a cleanable finish and optional tamper-resistant screws.

HallMonitor mounting plate with a single PoE+ cable

One cable for power and data

Power and a secure network connection for the sign and its built-in iPad, over a single PoE+ cable. No new AC outlets to install.

Build your perfect HallMonitor.

Pick colors, finishes, screen layout and light patterns, and see how it looks on your hospital’s doors before you commit.

HallMonitor with a teal accent plate, room 214 and a sky-blue light all around
HallMonitor running Epic Monitor with a yellow accent plate, room B12 and green side lights
Landscape HallMonitor base model with a green accent plate and yellow lights on top and bottom
HallMonitor with a wood-grain accent plate, room 308 and a purple light on top

Your staff has enough to do. Finding information shouldn't be one of them.

See HallMonitor live in a 30-minute demo built around your units, your EHR and your workflow.

Prefer to talk? Call 844-428-2463

The HallMonitor playbook

Rolling out digital door signage for the first time? This playbook walks through your software options, from HallMonitor’s own software to running it through Epic Monitor, and what connected signage should do beyond replacing paper. It ends with 10 questions to ask before you choose. Tell us where to send it.

Get more info on HallMonitor

The HallMonitor guide covers what the sign and lights show, how they connect to your EMR, nurse call and beds, and what customers have saved. Tell us where to send it.

HallMonitor with Epic Monitor

The Epic guide covers what Epic Monitor shows on HallMonitor, how your Epic rules drive the lights, and what customers have saved. Tell us where to send it.

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