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Kansas Community Hospital Searches Fast for Evidence
A busy Community Hospital in Kansas is an example of a suc- cessful migration to digital video from an analog system. The hos- pital’s Environmental Services & Security Director remembers an incident when a car drove up to the emergency room and dropped off an unconscious man with a drug overdose, then took off so as not to get involved.
“Finding in our surveillance the images of the person who dropped him off and the car he was driving only took us five minutes. We knew what time he arrived and went right to that date and time to see the evidence,” he said. “If we’d still had our old analog secu- rity system, it would have taken us two-and-a-half hours searching through videotape to get that evidence.”
The director recalls that they shared the footage with the police and after following up they realized that those people were involved in other criminal activities in the area. The XProtect software allows easy export of portions of video, should law enforcement officials request them.
Central Hospital in Finland Trains Challenged Parents
A Central Hospital in Finland was looking for an effective way to help parents with babies and young children who have challenging sleeping and feeding problems. Practice and research has demonstrat- ed that video methods are essential tools for clinical interventions when treating problems in child-parent relationships. Therefore, the
authorities decided to use Milestone XProtect video surveillance to treat the troubled families.
“Thanks to the video, we can provide better help to parents with babies and toddlers who often have sleeping and feeding problems,” said the Child Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, Clinic of Child Psy- chiatry. “The software is an important tool in helping families with problems they cannot solve by themselves. The end result of training with the interactions on video is healthier and happier babies and parents with increased knowledge and peace of mind.”
Nebraska Healthcare
Complex Improves Safety
In Nebraska, a leading healthcare institution was looking for an op- portunity to improve safety for patients, while also reducing its over- head costs. An operations manager was asked to investigate video monitoring as an option.
“Our goal was to ensure patient safety and to reduce costs,” she said. “We always have a certain population of patients who are con- fused and agitated; patients who we are not comfortable to leave alone in their rooms. It was previously necessary to staff those rooms for round-the-clock observation. At a time when
changing budget priorities meant we needed to
reduce our staffing, installing video monitoring
cameras at almost every bedside was the best op-
tion and helped us a great deal.”
Courtney Dillon Pedersen is the communications manager at Milestone Systems.
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