Imagine Fort Knox was as crowded as a shoulder-to-shoulder packed subway. Hospitals often endure visits from hundreds of people around the clock, yet are charged with the responsibility to save lives and keep people healthy. This traffic, combined with vulnerable patients, high staff turnover, and expensive equipment is a recipe for risk. Just ask Northwest Regional Medical Center, where a threatening intruder broke into a hospital, and made it into the ER. Fortunately, this risk can be managed using Surveillance Systems. Sick of risk, hospitals have taken note.
Let’s take a look:
Uses
Continuous monitoring: With surveillance cameras installed, hospitals enjoy complete and continuous monitoring of all the activities that take place in the hospital. Security cameras shed light on all that happens in and around the hospitals, thus, giving a better and secured environment.
Higher Accountability: At times, patients and staff make serious allegations against hospital authorities. There were almost 600,000 medical malpractice reports between 2004 and 2014 in the US, over half of which resulted in penalty against the healthcare professional. Visual evidence in such cases protects hospitals by both keeping professionals accountable, and guarding against lawsuit.
Patient Care: Security cameras allow hospital management to keep tabs on all employees as they handle the day-to-day patient care. As patients recover, daily and effective patient care must be maintained. One misstep, duplicate care administration, a missed meal, or neglect of daily hygiene activities has real consequences.
Patient Safety: Security cameras can prevent break-ins, keep track of unauthorized visitors, thus extending all round security in and around the hospital premises.
5 Comments
Agree with all the points, but it needs to be make sure that the security cameras must be capable enough to fetch the high definition live video.
A worthy post to go through. Thanks very much. In fact I do believe that the cameras should also be focused on the employees too whether they are doing their task as per the expectation or not.
It’s important for businesses of all types and sizes to invest in video surveillance. It’s not only for banks or financial institutions. Every company and hospital has something worth protecting.
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Security cameras are an important security element for patients and staff at hospitals. However, the cameras alone aren’t enough. There needs to be adequate staff in place to monitor the activity on the security cameras and react accordingly.