Healthcare security

Technological Solutions to Help Secure Healthcare Institutions

Violent attacks in hospital wards and healthcare institutions can pose a serious challenge to security authorities. Technological solutions can help tackle this problem.

In addition to assaults, there are patients who escape – including prisoners, mental health patients – and raising the chances for mass shootings.

As a result, SecureIDNews reports that the US health care field has been ramping up its security services to meet the threat.

The video surveillance cameras, ID badges and bracelets outfitted with radio frequency identification (RFID) or other smart technology for patients and staff, the integrated alarm systems, mass notifications, license plate readers, and smart card-enabled access control, all combine for this purpose. The infant tags, for example, are already ubiquitous, and as a result infant abductions today are rare, according to the FBI.