In-room exam education for hospital imaging

Put exam education on the room TV your patients already watch.

Patients shouldn't have to go to Dr. Google to understand their scan.

Calm, exam-specific videos on the patient's in-room TV — so the screen already in the room explains the scan before the patient ever reaches imaging. Staff pick the modality, then the exam, and it starts to play. Only two remote clicks, no typing.

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A smiling caregiver talking calmly with a patient — Calm, exam-specific education — right in the room

The challenge is clear. The solution is straightforward.

Patients who don't know what's coming get anxious, move, stop, or refuse. That costs your scanners time and your team patience.

Before Patient Silhouette

About 25–30% of MRI patients report meaningful exam anxiety.¹
Roughly 1–2% of MRIs are aborted or can't be done because of claustrophobia — on the order of 2 million scans a year worldwide.^2,3
Patient motion can cost an estimated ~$115,000 per scanner per year in repeated sequences.⁴
Busy nurses don't have time to explain every exam, every time.
Patients go to the internet and learn about their exam from "Dr. Google" instead of their doctors and nurses. (more)

After Patient Silhouette

A short, calm video of their exact exam — on the TV already in the room.
Pre-scan information videos have been shown to reduce patient anxiety, especially for first-timers.⁵
Patients rate exam videos as helpful and confidence-building.⁶
Two clicks for staff. No new device, no login, no EHR work.
Your hospital's room channel replaces Dr. Google with your own short exam video — so nurses stop re-explaining what the internet got wrong.

Fewer refusals. More patients who feel ready. A better chance of finishing the scan on the first try.

Sources: 1. Anxiety estimates vary widely by study and setting; figure reflects ranges reported across MRI patient-experience literature (see e.g. Munn Z et al., JBI Libr Syst Rev 2012, review of anxiety/claustrophobia interventions in imaging). 2. Enders J, Dewey M et al., CLAUSTRO trial methods, BMC Med Imaging 2011 (≈2.3%; ≈2 million scans/yr worldwide). 3. Pooled estimates of claustrophobia-related early termination (~1%); see also Napp AE et al., Radiology 2017 (6,500 patients). 4. Andre JB et al., "Toward Quantifying the Prevalence, Severity, and Cost Associated With Patient Motion During Clinical MR Examinations," J Am Coll Radiol 2015;12(7). 5. Hamd ZY et al., "How Different Preparation Techniques Affect MRI-Induced Anxiety of MRI Patients: A Preliminary Study," Brain Sci 2023. 6. Madl J et al., "Effects of video-based patient preparation for MRI on clinical processes and patient experience," Eur J Radiol 2023. Patient Silhouette is patient education; results vary by site.

Why Dr. Google? Because the patient is uninformed.

Today, a worried patient picks up a phone and searches their exam. What they find isn't from their doctors or nurses — and it's often wrong, scary, and about something else.

Put your hospital's voice on the room TV — before the patient ever needs to search.

The challenge

Dr. Google is answering your patients' questions instead of your care team. That leaves your team correcting the internet instead of leading the conversation.

The solution

A short, trusted video of their exact exam, on your own in-room channel. Clear, calm, and from the hospital.

Support for nursing staff

Nurses stop fighting bad internet information every shift. Less re-explaining, fewer "but I read online…" conversations.

This is our view from the field — not a published study statistic.

FOR HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS

Why care teams choose Patient Silhouette

A smiling nurse at the bedside in a patient room

More time for nursing care

Nurses and technologists spend less time repeating the same routine explanations at the bedside.

Lighter load for your team

When the room TV covers the routine exam explanation, your team repeats it less often. It supports care teams and never replaces them.

Calmer, more confident patients

Knowing what to expect eases anxiety, supporting a better experience and your patient satisfaction goals.

Consistent education on every shift

Every patient receives the same clear, accurate explanation, day or night, whoever is on duty.

Uses the screens you already have

Patients watch on the in-room TV with the remote they already use. Families can also watch on any phone or computer.

Always free for patients

No cost to patients. No app to download. They watch on the room TV — or on any phone or computer.

Supports your care team, never replaces them. Every video reminds patients to follow the instructions they receive from their own nurses and physicians.

How it works on the room TV

Two clicks. Then it plays. Modality → exam — the video starts automatically. Just the TV remote. No typing, ever.

Pick the modality

Open the Patient Silhouette channel and choose MRI, CT, Nuclear Medicine, PET, and more.

Pick the exam

Select the patient's exact study — bone scan, HIDA, CT with contrast, stress test.

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Play starts automatically

No third click. A calm, captioned video begins on its own and shows what the scan is like. The patient watches from bed.

Patient SilhouetteClick 1 · Modality

MRICTNuclear MedPETUltrasoundFluoro

CTClick 2 · Exam

CT headCT with IV contrastCT abdomen / pelvisCT chest

CT with IV contrastPlaying · starts automatically

Illustrative mock-up of the channel menu — not a screenshot of a live hospital system. Actual layout depends on your TV platform.

TV not ready yet? A bedside QR / tablet path is available as a fallback with the same library.

The full exam library

Every plan includes the full catalog. Education only — what the exam is like. Your nurses own prep instructions. Press play — one sample for each of our 10 modalities plays right here.