Hospitals & Healthcare Archive
Texas Hospital Deploys Analytics For Emergency Room
Texas Hospital Deploys Analytics For Emergency Room Video analytics ensures round-the-clock operation and security at the emergency room of a Texas hospital....
A Hybrid Solution
As the provider of choice for the greater community of Scottsdale, Ariz., Scottsdale Healthcare's mission is to identify and provide exceptional health...
Health Care IT Study Finds Mobility, Convenience Key To Productivity
Imprivata Inc., a converged identity and access management appliance company, has completed a national survey examining Identity Management Trends in Health Care 2008....
User Access A Common Concern In Health Care
During the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) 2008 conference in February, 64 percent of those who took part in a survey said compliance and user access control were their top security concern....
Health Care Benchmarking Study Points To Areas For Improvement
GE Security Inc., Bradenton, Fla., has announced the results of its Health care Benchmarking Study, the first survey to assess security in the nation’s hospitals in nearly a decade....
A Well-Timed Upgrade
For Freeman Health System, expansion was just what the doctor ordered. This 392-bed, not-for-profit, three-hospital system provides comprehensive health...
Expanding Under Lock And Key
In 2000, the former Good Samaritan Hospital became part of Banner Health, an organization that operates 20 hospitals in seven western states. With 17,000...
Crisis Communication Comes of Age
By Jim Crumbley
Workplace shootings, gang violence, infant kidnappings, inmate escapes, hostage situations, bomb threats, tornados, hurricanes, terrorism hospital security...
Code Pink
At Crouse Hospital, Syracuse, N.Y., where doctors and nurses deliver up to 7,000 babies a year, security is drum tight against baby snatchers. Ten years...
The Right Technology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) is in the process of swapping out its access control system, which includes 800 card readers, 1,500...
Products for the Hospitality Market
Digital Door Viewer outside images displayed on an LCD monitor The digital door viewer system consists of a digital camera equipped with a CMOS sensor...
Choosing Fire Extinguishers for Health Care Facilities
By Craig Voelkert
Many fire hazards exist within health care facilities. Today, more than ever, it is necessary to prevent as well as suppress fires, if and when they occur...
Help When It's Needed
Among the areas of highest risk for violence in hospitals are mental health units, emergency departments, waiting areas and geriatric units, according...
The Danger of (In)destruction
By Ashley Roe
A year ago, electronic data disposal at Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket, R.I., was rather primitive in light of current Health Insurance Portability and...
IP Video On Deck for Medical Center
Delivering top-notch security to match its premium health care just got easier at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Shawnee Mission, Kan. Along with a...
The Value Of Four
By Ashley Roe
In 2005, Shands HealthCare, a private, not-for-profit system affiliated with the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla., decided to invest in an integrated...
Nurses on the front lines of workplace violence
According to a recent survey by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), 86 percent of emergency nurses report having been the victim of violence by a patient or a patient's family member when working in the emergency department.
Workplace violence and a nursing shortage -- combined with increasing use of the emergency department -- can diminish the quality of emergency care for patients.
This week, the nation's leaders in emergency nursing practice and research will convene in Boston at the 2007 ENA Leadership Conference to identify solutions and discuss best practices for improving the emergency department experience for patients and staff. ...
Federal investigation: Patient privacy in jeopardy
The Bush administration has no clear strategy to protect the privacy of patients as it promotes the use of electronic medical records throughout the nation's health care system, federal investigators say.
The Government Accountability Office says in a report that the administration had a jumble of studies and vague policy statements but no overall strategy to ensure that privacy protections would be built into computer networks linking insurers, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers....
Swaddled In Safety
By Steven Elder
The use of electronic systems to prevent abduction of newborn infants is now a commonplace feature of birthing hospitals. These systems are intended to...
Heightened Awareness
By Carol Carey
Security professionals know that support from upper management is crucial, a truth that is demonstrated at Parker Jewish Institute, an adult health care...
Hospitals may not be ready for emergency evacuation
Digital files raise healthcare security concerns
Five questions to ask your hospital before disaster strikes
Contributed by Dr. Maurice A. Ramirez
Chlorine gas leaks after a train-car derailment. Radiation contaminates the community when an industrial accident occurs. A levee breaks, washing through every refinery and industrial plant and polluting all the water. ...
Healthcare Network Upgrades To IP Camera System
Orlando Regional Healthcare (ORH), a private, not-for-profit healthcare network has chosen to migrate ...
Networked Simplicity
The North Austin Medical Center (NAMC), a 210-bed, full-service hospital in Austin, Texas, required higher levels of security than were already in place,...
