The always-on board your unit actually looks at.
The steady-state surface for ambient operational awareness. One screen at the nurses' station, one panel on every clinician's phone, one admin tool that updates them both. Cards expire, urgent stuff rotates, the wall is current — every shift, every day.
A status board your unit actually looks at.
- Featured rotation. One big card cycles every 30 seconds — your most urgent updates, with a thin progress bar.
- Pin to feature. Anything pinned stays in the featured column at all times — no rotation, no scrolling away.
- Masonry of cards. Everything else laid out so the night nurse can scan the wall in 10 seconds.
- Live pulse. A quiet green dot tells anyone walking by that the wall is current — not a screenshot, not a stale slide.
- Auto light/dark. Light during day shift, dark at night. No glare in the resus bay at 3am.
- Weather + clock. Tiny ambient context in the header, configured per workspace.
New lactate collection timing and order set.
Scan to take it with you.
- Every card has a QR. One scan opens the full card on your phone with the PDF, links, and poll.
- Bookmarks. Tap "Take it with me" — the card lives in your saved feed for as long as you need it.
- Acknowledgments. If the card requires it, one tap signs you off. The wall keeps count; the audit log keeps the record.
- Actions panel. Scan the wall's QR to start a huddle, find a card by pin, or interact with the wall from your phone.
- Since-last-visit feed. Open Relay and the only cards highlighted are the ones you haven't seen yet.
Write a card in 90 seconds.
- Cards are the unit. Title, summary, audience roles, expiration. Optional attachments, links, polls, calendar events.
- Schedule for later. Write at 4pm, publish at shift change. Cards auto-promote when their time arrives.
- Reorder by drag. Move the urgent card to the top. The wall updates within seconds.
- Pathways inline. Paste a Curbside Health link and the card embeds the live pathway — always current.
- PHI guardrail. Relay warns if your card contains identifiers before you publish.
Plus everything else clinical teams ask for
Wall views
Different units, different views. Charge-RN view, triage view, education view — same data, different filters.
Calendar
A shared month + week view. Events, recurring meetings, and card date ranges all in one place. Cards can have a calendar event attached.
Insights
Counts, acknowledgment rates by role, top scanned cards, poll participation. Know what's working.
Audit log
Every admin action recorded — who, what, when, who acknowledged. Joint Commission-ready out of the box.
Multi-tenant
Health system → hospital → workspace. Role-based access at every level. Add a workspace in a minute.
Pathways library
Native Curbside Health integration — 1,000+ pathways linkable inside any card.
What it takes to run an Ops Board.
Relay runs on hardware your unit already has — no proprietary signage controllers, no special hospital network changes, no app-store approvals.
- – 40-inch+ TV (smart TV or "dumb" TV with a stick)
- – Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, or a small mini-PC — anything that runs a modern Chromium browser
- – 1080p minimum, 4K nice-to-have
- – Plug in, point the browser at your workspace URL, leave it
- – No inbound ports, no VPN, no special routing
- – The wall pulls updates over HTTPS to
app.relaysurface.com - – Works on your hospital's standard Wi-Fi or wired network
- – No PHI transits the wire — operational data only
- – No app store install — Relay is a mobile web app
- – "Add to Home Screen" gives it an icon if your team wants one
- – QR scanning uses the phone's native camera
- – iOS Safari + Android Chrome, current and one back
- – Hardware: mount the TV (if not already mounted), plug in the stick
- – Software: we provision your organization + workspaces (under 1 hour)
- – Authoring: your admins create the first 5–10 cards (1 sitting)
- – Rollout: shift huddle to walk through it — total 1–2 days from kickoff to "live on the wall"
Built for hospital infrastructure.
Relay is an operational surface — it deliberately stays away from protected patient data, and protects the operational data it does hold with the practices clinical software is expected to follow.
Have a security questionnaire? Send it over — security@relaysurface.com.
A short list of things people compare us to that we're not.
- – Not digital signage. Signage talks at people. Relay is a working surface — your team writes to it, scans from it, acts on it.
- – Not a hospital intranet. Intranets are where information goes to die. Relay lives where clinicians already look.
- – Not another messaging app. Messages scroll. Relay shows what's currently true — protocols, expirations, what changed.
- – Not a dashboard. Dashboards demand a login and your attention. Relay is ambient.
- – Not a clinical AI assistant. Relay doesn't write your protocols — it surfaces the ones your team already trusts.
- – Not an EMR replacement. Patient data stays in the chart. Relay is the operational layer alongside it.
- – Not a PHI store. Operational only.