Healthcare facilities often contend with a variety of criminal or violent incidents that severely impact the safety of staff and patients regularly. The most innovative security and communication systems are necessary to improve facility security and streamline communications.
It is critical to get the right information to the right people as quickly as possible. It’s also important to create systems that provide more accurate information than ever before. Here are four ways that Bosch and Convergint’s integrated systems make facilities safer.
Enhance Patient Care
There are several ways that cohesive systems enhance the care given to patients. First, remote monitoring allows staff to watch physically unstable patients or those waking up from anesthesia from centralized observation workstations. Now nurses and doctors can see all of the patients in their area and monitor their movement, so they always know what’s happening in each room.
In the past, nurses had to individually check every patient, which is time-consuming and made them unavailable to other patients. Now caregivers can monitor all activity, allowing them to prevent safety incidents or summon help quickly when security issues arise.
The patient elopement feature transmits signals when a high-risk patient, such as someone suffering from dementia, wanders off. This feature integrates with video to capture high-quality images of the event, while tracking their location.
Also, there are significant communication challenges between operating rooms and their control rooms. Bosch offers a series of wireless intercom systems that include RTS and Telex to increase intelligibility in these areas. These systems reduce the possibility of miscommunication in critical areas and improve communication without distracting surgeons.
Ensure Staff Safety
The safety of medical staff is of the utmost importance. Convergint and Bosch utilize access control and video surveillance to improve the safety of everyone in the facility. Video surveillance provides detailed images of patient traffic and captures vital information, such as facial characteristics and other identifying data, for accurate documentation.
The staff can also manage the flow of visitors and patients from the waiting room into various patient care areas, with access control and video surveillance maintaining security. Video surveillance also documents people trying to gain access to restricted areas.
This solution, an efficient wireless call system, allows staff to call for assistance if a safety or security risk arises, as well as medical emergencies. The medical facility assigns every staff member a panic transmitter so that administrators can immediately identify who needs help. This integrates with the video surveillance system, and it lets security staff have immediate access to video footage of the incident, no matter where on the property it is.
Secure the Facility’s Assets with Integrated Security Systems
There are many high-risk areas in healthcare facilities such as pharmacies, controlled substance storage, or sensitive areas where medical records are stored. By integrating access control, the latest intrusion technology, and video surveillance, opportunities for theft are reduced.
Dual authentication enhances property security to meet and exceed HIPAA regulations. Video masking ensures that patient records can’t be exposed by the surveillance cameras. These integrated solutions work for server rooms and IT closets as well.
Video surveillance, access readers, and keypads keep restricted areas safe and decrease unauthorized access. They can also be programmed to only allow authorized people in when they are scheduled to work. Dual authentication improves overall security. Unauthorized access attempts trigger video surveillance to send an email or text the appropriate personnel with a clip of the incident.
Larger assets are more difficult to protect, so installing Bosch security cameras with video analytics is an excellent security enhancement. When someone moves an object from the protected areas, automatic alerts notify staff of the stolen or moved property. The Security Escort feature ensures valuable assets remain in place. Tracking transmitters alert staff when someone removes property, and provides them with its location on the facility’s premises.
Expand a Facility’s Operational Efficiency
Video analytics is an excellent piece of strategy to improve the facility’s security. Integrating analytics makes the security cameras more intelligent, and able to comprehend what is being monitored. Smart cameras can differentiate between threats and normal activity. They alert security staff when they perceive threats that meet alarm rules. Additionally, users can also program the cameras to alert for loitering and suspicious activity in the parking garages.
Automating alarms allows security personnel to respond quickly to incidents, and also makes searching through video footage to retrieve recordings of incidents more efficient.
The Bosch Video Management System lets users control security devices from a single interface and makes managing complex health facilities easier. Convergint and Bosch together provide superior integrated security systems that keep facilities safer while remaining aesthetically pleasing. The video cameras fit into any setting and deliver enhanced detail in a variety of locations. It’s the best security solution for dynamic environments such as hospitals and medical facilities.