Latin America. Pioneering hospitals are using vIdeo, audio and access control technologies to improve hospital management and patient service. Axis Communications is expanding its actions in the area of health.
Just as the hotel industry has been making use of cameras not only for security reasons, but also to improve the quality of customer service, the Swedish company identified that health centers are also gradually importing this concept.
Because hospitals use network video, audio and access control technologies to improve their management and patient service, Axis saw the need to appoint Paul Baratta as new business manager for the healthcare sector.
With more than 33 years of experience, Baratta will act as a specialist in North America, but will contribute to the development of projects in various regions, including South America.
To demonstrate the breadth of technologies for the sector, Axis has also developed a guide for IT managers in the area of healthcare, under the title "The new vision of smart hospitals". This material is available for free download on the website www.healthcareconectado.com.
This year, Axis acquired Cognimatics, a company specializing in video analytics with application in hospitals, such as TrueView Tail Gating, to detect if a person with access to a certain area, such as the pharmacy or a surgery room, entered with someone unauthorized. Another example is the Wrong Way, an analytics that generates an alert when someone travels in the opposite direction to that allowed by the institution.
By adopting technology open to integrations, Axis continues to work with a wide range of software manufacturers, such as TechnoAware, which provides analytics to detect falling patients.
Axis recently launched the A8105-E, an ideal video intercom for hospitals, clinics, laboratories and rehabilitation centres. Less than five centimeters wide, it allows to release doors through facial recognition of registered people, using third-party software, or through the mobile application and IP phone. The product can control entry to laboratories, ICU rooms, and other restricted circulation areas, improving security with several checkpoints inside the building.
For Axis this is an opportunity to strengthen itself in this sector, since many hospitals have come to see video surveillance cameras as a versatile device within the IT network, along with other elements connected to the network, such as access control systems and IP sound. These pioneering hospitals are leading a technological transition to digital systems.
"In the future, hospitals will have video surveillance cameras that will capture data continuously to assess risks, generate automatic alerts, optimize processes without human intervention, analyze large volumes of data and cross information as a true brain behind the hospital operation," says Jimena Genetti, manager of Enterprise solutions for Hispanic countries.
The San Vicente de Paul Hospital, in Rionegro, Antioquia, is one of the main examples at the regional level of hospitals that sought to modernize with IP cameras from Axis Communications. The project included an integration through the EBI Software, fire detection and alarm system, and the access control and security system (which includes a large number of field peripherals such as proximity readers).
The building cares about energy saving, corporate integration and patient control. A whole system that integrates, thanks to the network, several functions applicable to the safety of patients and employees of the place.
