enVigil for Hospital Surveillance

Hospital- video surveillance
In hospitals and healthcare facilities, video surveillance is an effective tool that goes beyond security and helps the hospital administration monitor the business processes and increase productivity, quality of care and also control costs and wastage. Surveillance systems like enVigil can work to protect hospital employees and provide valuable visual evidence to prevent dishonest claims. enVigil from www.cradle.com can provide the video technology to the hospitals with added flexibility in their video surveillance installations, while offering benefits such as remote video monitoring and more effective storage capabilities.
enVigil provides these benefits to the hospitals & health care facilities.

1. Increase security and safety – enVigil can help to prevent crimes and break-ins and monitor for unauthorized visitors in restricted areas.
2. Improve productivity – enVigil improves productivity and quality of care because you can train and monitor the staff.
3. Prevent dishonest claims – In instances where patients or visitors falsely attest to injuring themselves on hospital property, visual evidence from the facility's security cameras can disprove such assertions, saving the hospital from pricey unwarranted insurance claims.
4. Resolve employee disputes – Employee disputes are easily resolved when clear visual proof is available. Surveillance cameras can shed light on incidents in question.
5. Continuous real-time monitoring –Cradle’s enVigil System allows authorized hospital employees to monitor critical areas continuously, in real time, from their personal computers and notebooks.
6. Extended Storage –. enVigil systems enable the user to store recorded footage digitally on the enVigil DVR (up to 2 TB) and then also Networked Attached Servers (NAS), where the surveillance video is easily accessible to authorized users, and offers improved searching capabilities.
7. enVigil offers section wise security- enVigil offers section wise security and you can have multiple enVigil servers monitoring the hospital buildings dividing the facility in smart sections to do the monitoring easy and give the monitoring job to appropriate personnel.
8. Remote video monitoring – Remote monitoring is an extremely helpful tool in medical facilities. enVigil Systems allows hospital employees to view security camera footage remotely from any PC with network access.
9. Smart Alerts via SMS, Emails- enVigil can send you smart alerts by sms and emails with visual picture attached.
10. enVigil can be integrated with Access Control systems- You can integrate enVigil with existing access control systems
11. Easy upgrade and reuse of infrastructure- enVigil is a smart upgrade because you can reuse the cameras and wiring of the current system and just changing DVR will make your whole surveillance system have up to date technology.
12. enVigil is specially good for multi location hospitals- Since enVigil can provide smooth video and it can work on regular band width it is specially good for multi-location facilities

A well balance physical security and video surveillance combination is a way to go
Over reliance – While video surveillance is an important part of any hospital's security plan, it's also critical that the appropriate level of physical security personnel is in place.
Privacy Issues needs to be addressed
A hospital should be aware of patient’s personal privacy. Security cameras are effective tools for monitoring many sections of a hospital, but patient privacy should be considered when determining whether or not cameras should be placed in a facility's more private areas.