Healthcare security applications - Case studies
The interface is completely integrated with the parking management and access control systems Elkerliek Hospital staff want to offer the best care possible. They work with modern medical equipment and are constantly updating their knowledge; the buildings and premises conform to the current zeitgeist. In sum, Elkerliek does whatever it can to provide its patients with the most progressive treatment available. Centralised security An important aspect of ensuring quality and...
TKH Security Solutions supplied complete iProtect Security Management System Diakonessenhuis Utrecht occupied a proud first place in the hospital top hundred for 2008. It is a progressive hospital with three locations in the Netherlands: Utrecht, Zeist, and Doorn. It has 627 beds, admits over 24,000 patients a year, and provides outpatient clinics that are visited by almost 370,000 patients a year. Diakonessenhuis employs 2640 people, including 150 specialists. Since the quali...
The iCVR high-definition cameras feature built-in video recording It’s normally associated with catching “bad guys” in the act, but video surveillance is becoming more than that. New video technology is improving the care and safety of patients, visitors, and staff in Alberta Health Services health facilities. The new technology is iCVR high-definition cameras – intelligent surveillance cameras with built-in video recording. They cover nea...
The community team’s main aim is to support patients throughout their illness St. Luke’s Hospice, a Sheffield based charity caring for adults with incurable diseases, has adopted the market leading lone worker security device, Identicom, to protect its community nurses when working alone. St. Luke’s Hospice has chosen Connexion2’s fully managed SoloProtect solution, which incorporates Connexion2’s award-winning Identicom, supported with a range of...
MOBOTIX AG, a leading manufacturer of complete high-resolution IP video systems have released details of a successful project at Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust creating the largest MOBOTIX all digital, hi-res CCTV system within any NHS facility to help protect over a million people.The solution designed and implemented by Check Your Security Ltd (CYS), a MOBOTIX Advanced Partner, replaces an aging analog system and is part of a highly integrated platform including, barrier ent...
When the security team at Palmetto Health Baptist, an acute care Medical Center in Columbia, S.C., invested in an upgrade to their surveillance cameras from black-and-white to color, they did so with the expectation that it would significantly improve the quality of video they were capturing. Unfortunately, this turned out to be the equivalent of putting new paint and tires on a car that really needs a new engine. In the hospital's case, the new cameras only made it more evident that...
The Arecont Vision megapixel IP cameras provide better overall coverage with higher resolution Ensuring that all activity and incidents are captured on video with detailed high resolution clarity, Merck Pharmaceutical S.A. De. C.V. has installed an Arecont Vision megapixel technology solution at their new facility in Mexico. Located around the perimeter of the building, Arecont Vision’s 5 megapixel day/night cameras produce superior images in both daytime and evening li...
Ziekenhuis Amstelland is a general hospital in the Netherlands that provides high quality medical care in a friendly environment and on a small scale, primarily to the residents of the Amstelveen region and to the Jewish community in particular. Following a large-scale new construction project that took place in 2009-2010, and with a major renovation of the old building during 2011, Amstelveen Hospital has transformed itself into a brand new hospital. In conjunction with this comprehensive proje...
The access control system at Campus Malle started life in 2000 as a relatively modest installation, covering 24 doors in a single building. Today, it has grown into a system that covers over 400 doors in nine buildings on the multi-hectare Zoersel site, and 54 doors in a building on a separate site 15 km away. After further extensions planned for 2012 have been completed, the installation will expand even further, to 700 doors. The current system is also directly linked to the Emmaus human resou...
Introduction Unitec New Zealand is a major tertiary education provider that offers postgraduate and degree-level study, as well as vocational education and training to more than 50,000 students. Unitec has around 55 full time IT staff members that manage a network of approximately 4,000 connected nodes, seventy five percent of which are workstations. There are also approximately 300 to 400 wireless laptops configured to connect to the Unitec wireless network. Staff and students are tied toget...
The Medical University of Gdansk, the largest medical academic institution in Northern Poland, inaugurated its state-of-the-art Academic Center of Invasive Medicine in September, 2011. A six-storey building with a total area of over 64,000 sqm, the medical center is furnished with the most cutting-edge medical equipment. It will serve as the country's leading research and clinical institution specializing in a broad range of surgery practices and intensive care.To ensure the safety of those valu...
Safety is at the forefront of hospitals across the nation. According to a landmark report 'To Err is Human' (2000) by The Institute of Medicine (IOM), between 44,000 and 98,000 patients die a year in the U.S. due to preventable medical errors including wrongful administration of medication. Beyond the cost of human life, these errors cost the healthcare industry as much as $29 million per year. This figure takes into account the expenses associated with additional care, loss of income and disabi...
One of Spain’s newest and ‘greenest’ hospitals, Sant Joan Reus has been jointly designed by the architects’ studios Corea & Moran and Pich-Aguilera, specialists in hospital architecture. The hospital, which has 460 beds, specializes in treatments such as oncology, bariatric surgery, plastic surgery and repair, vascular medicine and thoracic surgery. The new hospital is integrated into the local environment not only from a landscaping point of view but has also...
Trollmühle, a water supply association selected Omnicast for its motion detection Genetec, a pioneer in the physical security industry and a leading provider of world-class unified IP security solutions, announced that Trollmühle, a water supply association located in Rhineland, Germany, chose Omnicast, Genetec’s IP video surveillance system, to safeguard water facilities against threats and contamination. Omnicast was chosen for its highly-advanced reliability...
Axxon Intellect Enterprise supports a variety of IP and analog cameras The maternity hospital on the Furshtatskaya Street in downtown St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, provides a wide range of services and includes an in vitro fertilisation center, a well woman center, a diagnostics and out-patient center as well as prenatal care, in-patient obstetric, and childcare departments. In 2011 the hospital realised the need to expand its video surveillance system by installing add...
The IP based network system takes advantage of the performance and cost efficiencies of Arecont cameras Virtua Healthcare System, a comprehensive multi- hospital healthcare system headquartered in Marlton, NJ, has recently upgraded its video surveillance system to an IP-based network complete with Arecont Vision IP megapixel cameras. According to Paul M. Sarnese, System Safety Director, Virtua Health, the Arecont solution has enabled the organization to increase surveillance...
Accidents can and do happen, but being prepared for them is what can really make the difference between life and death in a critical situation. In the autonomous region of Castilla-La Mancha in Central Spain, the health care authority, SESCAM, takes people's well-being seriously. SESCAM is stepping up its medical airlift services with 166 new helipads and a communications and video network system that is built to effectively counter any calamity.Centralizing the systemCurrently, there are 59 med...
Avigilon, the performance and value leader in high definition and megapixel video surveillance systems, announced that Southside Medical Center, Georgia's oldest and largest Federally Qualified Health Centre, has deployed the Avigilon High Definition (HD) surveillance system to boost patient and staff safety. Facing many security challenges including gang-related activities, on-site domestic violence, disputes among patients, vandalism, break-ins, and theft, Southside Medical Center selected the...
The training center at the University Hospital of Cologne has a sophisticated new audio video system which helps medical students practise consultations and procedures of different types and learn from detailed analysis of their own performance. Supplied and installed by inSynergie, a German specialist in multimedia control solutions, the AV package combines inSynergie's own software with Geutebruck re_porter and GeViScope video platforms.The training center's practice facilities compr...
The Healthcare sector is a vital one which affects everyone at some point during their lives. Equally, by its very nature the healthcare sector is highly susceptible to security threats, so ensuring secure access control is an essential element of most medical facilities. TDSi, a global leader in access control systems, offers a range of solutions that cater for the numerous and often demanding access control needs of the healthcare industry, whilst respecting the need to provide for greater val...
The challenges involved in securing a hospital are unlike those in almost any other building. Most hospitals have relatively easy access because they want to provide a welcoming environment and while this dictates that it is often necessary to allow for high levels of public access to the hospital and other health amenities, including the routes linking different departments, entry to many back of house areas and most other facilities needs to be restricted for the protection of both patients an...
IndigoVision's IP-CCTV solution has been integrated together with access control and intruder detection to provide one of Madrid's hospitals with a state of the art security system. Opened in 2008, the Infanta Sofía Hospital is located in San Sebastián De los Reyes and was built by the Madrid Regional Government as part of plans to improve healthcare services for towns in Northern Madrid. The hospital consists of several buildings on a 60Km2site with the main facilities in an 8-sto...
The Hikvision cameras allow network transmission to multiple clients simultaneousyHikvision's network speed dome cameras and 4CIF IP cameras are being used at the Louis Pasteur Hospital in the city of Chartres in northern France to protect patients, staff and visitors.This district general hospital, situated to the southwest of Paris, is a 528-bed facility offering general surgery, convalescence and a maternity unit. There is also emergency in-patient accommodation and a specialist respira...
The RAID NVR solutions have effectively increased security for hospital staff, patients and visitors The overwhelming advantages of megapixel cameras in terms of image clarity have pushed the adoption from large-scale projects to any application featuring stringent customer requirements, including schools, government institutions, hotels, hospitals, enterprises and factories. These advantages were recognized by the City Hospital in Skopje, Macedonia, which adopted Surveon's co...
There is a growing need for Quantum Secure products to increase the security of critical infrastructure Quantum Secure, the leading provider of enterprise software to manage and streamline security identities, compliance and events across disparate physical security systems, announced that it has deployed phase one of its SAFE physical identity and access management software solution for the new World Trade Centre.With this phase of SAFE deployment, the WTC will cen...
Axis Communications, the global leader in the network video market, today announced that its IP Network Cameras are being used to monitor Chemist Warehouse's Australian retail network, as part of a major security system expansion supported by Milestone using its security software and surveillance management solution for Chemist Warehouse's expanding number of locations across the country. Chemist Warehouse has used Axis cameras for over five years with open platform IP network video s...
Compro IP540 streams live video of the pets' activity to their owners' smartphones round-the-clock In Japan where being single is increasingly becoming the way of life for men and women over the age of 20, pets are gradually taking the place of children in the family. Today, there are estimated to be 25 million of dogs and cats living in Japan families, more than the number of new born babies and kids. Japanese businesses are quick to adapt to cater for the growing demand for pet care service....
The new system improves workflow efficiency and increases patient data securityDigitalPersona, Inc., a global provider of authentication and endpoint protection solutions, recently announced Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services (Children's Clinics) has deployed DigitalPersona® Pro data protection and access security software and U.are.U® Fingerprint Readers to enhance the rollout of its new electronic health records (EHR) system. Using fingerprint biometrics, Children's Clinic...
Upgrade of West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust upgraded it's Wavestore video recording systemVideo surveillance specialist, Puls Global Ltd has completed an upgrade of West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust's Wavestore video recording system which has resulted in an extension of the life of the existing analog CCTV cameras, whilst expanding video surveillance coverage of the hospital by introducing new IP network cameras.It is sadly a familiar story throughout the NHS. Nurses, doc...
Paxton supplied swipe card readers to impart an authentic look to the hospital set Mammoth Screen is an award-winning television production company that specialises in the creation of high quality drama for mainstream TV channels like ITV. They have now finished production on an exciting medical drama called Monroe, starring James Nesbitt as a neurosurgeon, working in a hospital in Leeds. The show is tipped to be ITV's leading TV drama series for 2011. Market-lead...
