Strengthening Healthcare Security with Verkada and Pavion: Protecting Patients and Staff
Ensuring the safety and security of patients, staff, and visitors is paramount in healthcare. The sensitive nature of healthcare environments demands robust, reliable, and scalable security solutions that can respond swiftly to incidents, protect privacy, and enhance overall safety. Verkada, in partnership with Pavion, offers healthcare facilities an integrated, cloud-based platform that safeguards physical spaces and helps maintain compliance with industry regulations. Here’s how this partnership is transforming security in the healthcare sector.
Protect Patients and Frontline Staff with Accelerated Response Times
In the fast-paced healthcare environment, every second counts. Whether locating a missing patient or investigating an altercation, Verkada’s AI-powered search capabilities enable healthcare providers to quickly search across their entire camera fleet. With features like face search, motion search, or even a simple description of people or vehicles, staff can find the information they need in minutes. Pavion ensures that your healthcare facility can respond to incidents rapidly by enabling access to footage from any device, anywhere, and by auto-generating incident reports that can be shared securely with law enforcement. To protect privacy, faces can be blurred in video evidence before sharing via SMS or direct link.
Enhance Staff Safety with Panic Buttons and Real-Time Alerts
Workplace violence is a growing concern in healthcare settings, making it crucial to provide staff with the tools they need to feel safe. Verkada’s panic buttons, strategically placed at nurses’ stations or reception desks, offer a critical lifeline during heated incidents. With just one click, frontline staff can alert internal security, dispatch the police, or activate visual or loudspeaker warnings. By pairing Verkada cameras with panic buttons, high-resolution footage of the incident can be quickly accessed, enabling a faster emergency response. Pavion’s expertise in integrating these systems ensures your staff has the support they need to feel secure and protected in their workplace.
Monitor Patient Safety While Respecting Privacy
Balancing patient safety with privacy is a critical concern in healthcare. Verkada’s platform allows care staff to monitor patients remotely, reducing burnout while ensuring that potential distress or self-harm behaviors are detected early. With remote access to camera feeds, staff can monitor patients from their desks, allowing for quick intervention when needed. To comply with HIPAA data minimization requirements, Verkada offers features like blurring faces on live footage, setting privacy regions, and tiering user permissions to restrict access to sensitive information. Pavion’s commitment to privacy ensures that your healthcare facility maintains compliance while providing the highest level of care and security.
Enhance Building Security and Deter Threats
Healthcare facilities face unique security challenges, from preventing unauthorized access to ensuring the safety of visitors and outpatients. Verkada’s integrated security solutions help deter threats by providing real-time visibility into all areas of the facility. With Pavion’s support, your healthcare facility can implement a seamless visitor management system that impresses with its efficiency and security. Instead of relying on outdated paper logbooks, visitors and outpatients can enjoy a streamlined check-in process that safeguards Protected Health Information (PHI). Verkada’s system includes built-in photo ID capture, badge printing, screening forms, e-signing, and native EMR and EHR integrations, all while automatically checking visitors against patient-specific and sitewide watchlists and optional known offender databases. This real-time visibility allows front desk staff to enforce visitor limits and verify authorized visitors at critical checkpoints like ICUs.
