What is a clinic wait time widget?
A clinic wait time widget is a small website display that shows patients current clinic status information before they visit.
The widget is designed to help patients quickly understand whether your clinic is open, accepting walk-ins, and experiencing a longer or shorter wait.
Core status fields
Estimated wait time, open or closed status, walk-in availability, provider availability, and location-specific updates.
Patient action paths
Clinic announcements plus links to request more information or contact the clinic.
Built for Alberta walk-in clinics
Walk-in clinics in Calgary, Edmonton, and across Alberta often need to manage changing patient volume throughout the day. TONVUX helps keep this information visible on the clinic’s own website, where patients are already looking for hours, location details, and contact information.
Why show wait times on your own website?
Your clinic website is one of the most important patient touchpoints. Patients may search your clinic name, check your hours, look for directions, or call from your contact page.
Answer before the call
Adding live wait time and clinic status information helps your website answer common questions before the patient picks up the phone.
Keep control of status information
Your clinic controls how status information appears instead of depending only on third-party directory listings.
What patients can see
The TONVUX wait time widget can be configured to show the information your clinic wants to make public.
What staff can update
Clinic staff can update public-facing status from the TONVUX dashboard. The goal is to make updates simple enough for front-desk and clinic operations teams to use during a busy day.
Works with common clinic websites
TONVUX can be added to common website platforms used by clinics. Your clinic does not need to rebuild its entire website to start showing live clinic status information.
Privacy-conscious communication
TONVUX is designed to show clinic-level operational information, not patient medical details. The wait time widget can display clinic status without showing patient names, health card numbers, diagnoses, treatment details, appointment notes, or EMR records.
For single-location and multi-location clinics
Single-location clinics can keep patients updated about one clinic’s current status. Multi-location clinics can show location-specific availability, helping patients understand which clinic is open, accepting walk-ins, or experiencing a shorter wait.
Pair the widget with TONVUX Kiosk
The website widget helps patients before they arrive. TONVUX Kiosk helps patients after they arrive by showing wait times, announcements, and status updates on a waiting-room display.
Compliance notes for this page
Use “estimated wait time” rather than language that implies a fixed or promised wait. Avoid claiming the widget will reduce calls, reduce wait times, improve medical outcomes, or promise patient satisfaction unless you later have approved evidence. Keep privacy wording focused on what the widget does not need to display publicly, rather than making broad legal compliance promises.
FAQ
Request early access
TONVUX is currently focused on Alberta walk-in clinics and medical clinics. If your clinic wants to show live wait times and status updates on its own website, request early access.
Call: (587) 998-0919 Email: [email protected]
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