Healthcare providers find themselves in a particularly challenging situation in terms of security. High-value equipment, sensitive medical records, and a significant number of patients, and staff to look after, presents itself with a unique security problem. Furthermore, security measures must also protect against fire, and safety issues, and even professional criminals trying to steal high-tech pieces of equipment. This is made even more challenging when you have patients with a variety of issues, from hospital check ups to intensive care units. Thus it is critical that the right integrated security systems are put into place to effectively deal with all of these challenges.

Integrated security systems can provide healthcare facilities with comprehensive solutions to protect the people, machinery, property, and inventory of the health care provider. For example, easy to use systems such as visitor management, access control, intruder detection, and video surveillance, can be installed in healthcare facilities. This will enable you to have far greater control and surveillance over who exactly is in your property and at what time.

Details Of A Complete Healthcare Security Package

• ID access, either via pin or fingerprint technology for clinic staff and employees.
• Professionally monitored intrusion alarm system.
• Video surveillance and live monitoring 24/7.
• Fire alarms and temperature monitoring.
• Electrical and physical access control to restrict particularly sensitive areas, and divide employees into their particular units.
• Track high value equipment and manage your patient in and out flow.

Knowing exactly who is in your facilities at any given time is extremely important in terms of health care facilities. Through combining access control with other integrated security systems, you can prevent any unauthorised visitors from accessing your buildings, and restrict particularly sensitive units.

Why Should You Use Access Control?

• Prevent unauthorised access into your building.
• Control who enters each area of your facilities.
• Increase the security of your assets, people and facilities.
• Visitor access for particular times and units.
• Generate staff/visitor reports 24/7.
• Centralised lock down in the event of a major security breach.

Types Of Access Control

• Electronic Access Control — Restrict authorisation into particular areas via a swipe card, or pin code, at an electronic access control point.
• Biometrics — Access is determined by the physical attributes of a person i.e fingerprint or iris.
• Web-Based Access Control — Visual verification in real-time via the internet.

From controlling who enters sensitive areas, to video surveillance of the whole facilities. Integrated security systems can help you assess the risks faced by health care providers on a day to day basis. Therefore, make sure you implement integrated security systems to effectively address the unique security issues faced by healthcare providers.