Exploring security and communication technologies to streamline healthcare operations
Healthcare facilities must manage complex logistics involving multiple departments across buildings, sometimes in different city areas, to streamline healthcare operations. The challenge is ensuring seamless coordination across these departments to provide the best possible patient care while managing costs effectively.
Streamline Healthcare Operations
In today's healthcare landscape, technology plays a key role in helping operations run smoothly. Technologies help connect staff with patients, enabling effective patient care delivery. They also help automate repetitive tasks so that medical professionals can focus on helping patients, therefore streamline healthcare operations.
In this article, we explore how security and communication technologies can be instrumental in helping hospital staff streamline operations and ultimately enhance the patient experience.
Automate repetitive tasks to reduce employee workload
Imagine a delivery vehicle obstructs the emergency entrance while an ambulance with a critically ill patient approaches. This results in unnecessary delays, resources, and frustrations among staff and the patient. Audio can play a pivotal role in proactively eliminating the situation from happening.
While video provides a real-time view of critical areas, it doesn’t help the security team act on what they see. Thanks to open standards like ONVIF and SIP, IP speakers automatically dispatch recorded warnings when obstructions are detected. When manual intervention is needed, operators send live voice messages. Operators send these messages through the IP speaker using a video management terminal during situations like helicopter landings.
With the built-in microphone, an IP speaker enables ambient listening around the helipad and ambulance entryway. This not only empowers the security to hear what they see in real time but is also helpful for the training of security personnel in the future.
Prompt emergency assistance to minimize response time
Within operating theaters, intensive care wards, and treatment rooms, an IP cleanroom intercom helps nurses and surgeons get immediate help during surgery. An IP cleanroom intercom can connect to a foot switch for convenience. It can dispatch pre-recorded messages to IP speakers in other staff areas of the hospital.
This saves precious time in critical situations, as medical staff do not need to remove gloves or wash hands to seek additional help. With integration into public address systems,
surgeons can initiate code blue notifications directly from the IP cleanroom intercom.
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