Nursing is renowned as being one of the toughest jobs around, with many patients to care for and constant demands on their time. Hospitals are always under pressure in situating like covid 19.
Video Analytics has the smart potential to increase efficiency and notify hospital doctors and staff for following:
- If a patient’s dressings have not been changed when they should have been.
- If a bed-bound patient needs assistance. For instance, a patient can use gestures instead of bell button which makes it easier for much quicker.
- It can be trained to distinguish and recognize the movement from someone lying down on a bed or sitting on the floor – then alerting staff and directing them to the right location. For instance, if an elderly person falls it can be very serious but can be detected by this technology when no one is around.
- Has ability to identify objects means it can also be valuable in helping to keep tabs on the location of expensive equipment, which can be especially difficult to track when facilities rely heavily on temporary staff.
- To ensure pharmaceuticals are only handled by the right people, systems can use facial recognition to track access – or even control it when paired with an access control management system. For instance, a camera would recognize when an approved person approached a secure room or cabinet and grant them access, while non-approved personnel or members of the public would remain locked out.
- Helping medical practitioners improve patient care, video analytics can also help increase efficiency as every step in the procedure is monitored.
- By analyzing human behavior at different locations at different times of the day, analytics can improve staffing levels by providing accurate information about where staff are being posted versus where the greatest amount of activity or need is. This can help managers post staff exactly where and when they’re needed, making the best use of resources. The same sort of information can help managers improve emergency procedures, too.
- With hygiene such an important factor in hospitals, video analytics can monitor traffic and notify cleaning staff if facilities need to be cleaned on a different schedule.
The technology provided by ARTILECT, uses the existing cameras and turn them into smart cameras to track all the above and more by using much of a building’s existing security infrastructure.
