Thanks to the low powered e-paper screen the device will be able to last up to a week on a single charge. Apart from just providing medical data and queue numbers, the Sapporo Shirakaba-dai Hospital has other plans for the device in the future and for starters they hope that it would help to simplify the registration process by inserting an IC-equipped registration card which would automatically link to the patients’s medical records, thus completely the registration rather effortlessly.
They are also hoping that by using e-paper rather than regular paper that they are providing a “green” solution, since the device will be running on low powered e-paper as well as its ability to be used in multiple scenarios and convey detailed information all on one device. Almost makes you want to get checked into the hospital just to see it in action.