Dealing with Security Issues in Hospitals

Hospitals have many different wards with various security concerns that require a method of identifying both patients and visitors.

In the maternity ward, it’s especially important to also identify babies and their mothers as well as visitors. Babies should be identified with safe, secure, and non-transferable wristbands with their mother’s name that cannot be removed easily.

Highly contagious patients should be identified so that they are not inadvertently exposed to other patients. Vendors, volunteers, outpatients, inpatients, and staff members all need to be identified differently. Since a hospital has multiple exits, it would be nearly impossible to collect all IDs and passes, so it’s important to have a security system in place that is easy to use and yet provides for many different forms of ID that are easily recognized by staff and visitors alike.

Hospital staff should have permanent badges, perhaps with magnetic stripes to allow entry into restricted areas. High security areas in hospitals may also use voice recognition, fingerprint scanners, or even retinal scanners. These devices are effective in protecting people and information by making it nearly impossible for unauthorized individuals to get past a checkpoint.

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