Danish Healthcare Info-TV Driven by @ScalaInc

Maddie Cotterill

Scala, Inc has continued its impressive growth in Europe with another announcement of a large-scale digital signage network, Info-TV which is running over 500 screens across 20 medical facilities, on behalf of Region Hovedstaden, the regional authority of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Info-TV, centralises relevant national, regional, facility and department-level healthcare information on-screen to provide information to people located in the waiting rooms of the facilities run by the authority.

Deployed by local Scala system integrator ATEA following a public tender for centralised digital signage and support, Info-TV is part of a project by Region Hovedstaden to improve overall patient satisfaction during their interactions with the public healthcare system.

Scala info-tvThe deployment at Region Hovedstaden includes 520 Scala players, driving a similar number of 42” and 55” screens split into a dynamic frame and a scroll feed.

Jacob Simonsen, technical project leader and consultant at Region Hovedstaden told us “We are managing 500 discrete playlists and channels, no two channels are similar”.

Jacob believes that “Scala was the only provider that could handle the management and distribution of content to such a wide network.”

Anders Rusbjerg Jensen, product manager at ATEA, noted that the excellent teamwork of both ATEA and Scala Nordic was key to the success of the Scala solution. “We really enjoyed the challenge of working with an organisation the size of Region Hovedstaden. We are certain that the positive collaboration between all of our teams ensured that the customer was always at the receiving end of fast and professional service.”

About ATEA

Atea is the leading Nordic and Baltic supplier of IT infrastructure with approximately 6,100 employees. Atea is present in 83 cities in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Atea delivers IT products from leading vendors and assist its customers with specialist competencies within IT infrastructure services with its approximately 3,700 consultants and 7,500 technology certifications.


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