You need to take security seriously when it comes to your care facility. When your patients receive care, they are vulnerable, and you need to protect them and their possessions from intruders and criminal activity.

So, how can integrated security technology help you to provide better care service?

Keep reading as we discuss the integrated security technologies in the care sphere and the benefits these technologies might have for your care facility.

What Is Integrated Security Technology?

Integrated security technology refers to cloud-based security tools with open API integrations. In other words, since cloud-based security tools allow for integration, you can integrate different security technologies or apply software integrations to improve how your security operates.

By integrating your security tools, you can ensure that all security information is readily accessible in one cloud-based location, facilitating a smooth user experience for security staff. 

Integration also has benefits in strengthening your security strategy and providing more convenience for patients and building users. In the rest of this post, we will explore these benefits in more detail.

Best Integrated Technologies For Care Services

Let’s discuss the integrated technologies for care services and how they can improve the experience for your patients.

Integrations For Access Control

Access control solutions secure your building from intruders, eliminating the possibility of lockpicking by replacing keys with keycards, fobs, and mobile credentials (digital access keys). 

Visitor Management Systems

Visitor management systems integrate with your cloud-based access control system to provide smoother and more convenient visitor check-in. When your patients need to have visitors, the visitor can easily enter the facility by filling in a digital registration form on their mobile device to check-in. Once they have checked in, they can download temporary access credentials to their mobile devices, allowing them to enter the building. When they leave, the credentials will be disabled, and they will not be permitted to re-enter without completing registration again.

Wellness Verification Software

Wellness verification software is a solution designed to protect your facility from coronavirus. It integrates with access control to provide users with surveys based on the symptoms they must complete before entry. If the survey finds that they are symptomatic, they will be denied access, and the facility can handle the incident at their disposal. 

For healthcare facilities, it is essential to prevent individuals with symptoms of coronavirus from entering. The facility may contain individuals with compromised immune systems that will be especially vulnerable.

Integrated Access Control And Video Security

One of the critical vulnerabilities with any access control system is the potential for a user to gain unauthorized access using someone else’s key card. If this happened, the safety of everyone in the facility could become compromised. To prevent this from happening, you can integrate access control and video security for identity verification. 

By integrating the two technologies, it would be easier to identify whether someone has entered the building using stolen credentials. This is because the access and video logs would be hosted on two different platforms, meaning security teams would need to correlate timestamps to spot the incident. 

However, when both technologies are integrated, security teams can see access logs and video logs on a single interface, allowing them to resolve the incident more quickly and conveniently.

Additionally, you can integrate facial recognition software for identity verification to automate this process and eliminate the possibility of entry with stolen credentials. When a user enters the building, the facial recognition software will verify that the person entering the building matches the access credentials.

Integrations For Video Security

In addition to identity verification software, another integration for video security is worthy of note.

Combining security cameras in hospitals with video AI and analytics is the perfect solution to keep your security team up-to-date on security incidents. Once applied to your surveillance system, the software will analyze footage to detect anomalies and potential threats. Once the system detects a threat, it alerts your security team via mobile devices. They can then investigate the alert and determine the best course of action.

This software integration immeasurably increases your security strategy’s responsiveness and will help establish an agile security response protocol at your care facility.

Summary

At your healthcare facility, you have a responsibility to protect the health of your patients, but you also have a responsibility to keep them safe. By implementing these software integrations and integrating your cloud-based security technologies, you can equip your security system to prevent crimes, coronavirus cases, and forced entry at the facility. Consider which solutions are a priority for improving your security strategy.