AltoSignal / Setup guide
Setup guide
No installer on a server, no IT call and no new hardware. Install the app on the screens you have, answer three questions about your office, rename a few buttons, and page the next room.
From sign-up to the first page between two rooms.
Sign up at altosignal.com/signup with your e-mail and a password. No credit card for the first 30 days, and nothing to install on a server.
One wherever a signal needs to be seen: each operatory or exam room, the front desk, sterilization, the lab. Four operatories plus the front desk and sterilization is six screens. They do not have to match, and you can add more later.
Get it from the App Store, Google Play, the Amazon Appstore or the Microsoft Store, or download it for Mac or Linux. Sign in with the same login on every screen and give each device a name, like Op 2 or Front Desk.
On a new account, the app asks what kind of office this is, how many rooms you have, and who gets paged. Tap Set up my office and it builds your buttons, room states, quick replies, patient and people lists, a floor plan of your rooms and a matching look, on every screen at once. Or type a sentence or two about your office instead, and the app proposes the whole setup for you to approve. See the three questions. Skipped it, or want to start over? Open the gear, then Setup, and on the Get started tab choose Replace under Starter buttons.
On the Buttons tab of Setup, tap a button to rename it: your doctors and staff in the Who column, the things you say in the What column, your rooms in the Where column. Changes reach every screen at once.
At the front desk, tap a doctor, then Patient Ready, then a room, then Send. The page appears on every screen, the doctor taps to acknowledge it, and the front desk sees that it was seen.
What the app asks the first time it opens on a new account. Every answer can be changed later in Setup.
Rooms are numbered for you, like Exam 1 to Exam 4, next to the fixed places of your kind of office. Names can be people or roles, up to six to begin with.
Nothing proprietary. Any tablet or computer from the last few years will do.
Hardware
Network
Optional, and each takes a few minutes.
Route pages so only the screens that should hear them light up, for example one channel per doctor or per floor. Main and Emergency always reach every screen.
Invite your team by e-mail and every page shows who sent it. Team logins, step by step.
Take a number for each patient, see who is in which room, and let a reply of On My Way move the doctor on the plan. To draw it, take a picture of your fire escape plan or a sketch and choose From a photo, or start from Auto layout. Patient flow with AltoSignal.
Stuck on something? Type your question into the box at the top of Setup and the app answers from these guides. Prefer watching? The guides show each step in a clip under a minute.
Under ten minutes for most offices. Sign up, install the app on each screen, answer three questions about your office, and rename any buttons you want to change. No installer on a server and no IT call.
No. AltoSignal runs on the phones, tablets and computers you already own, over your existing Wi-Fi.
On a new account it asks three questions: what kind of office this is, how many rooms you have, and who gets paged. Your answers build the buttons, rooms, lists and a floor plan on every screen. Only an owner or admin sees the questions, and an account that already has its own buttons is never asked.
Yes. Setup has starter sets, on the Get started tab, for dental offices, medical and ENT practices, eye care practices, veterinary clinics and several kinds of spa. Replace loads the buttons, room states, quick replies, lists and a floor plan in one step.
Yes. Every button, room, state and channel can be renamed, added or removed in Setup, and the change reaches every screen at once.
30 days free on the screens you already own. No credit card.
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