Hospital Security System: Ensuring Safety in Healthcare Facilities

The assignment delves into the critical issue of security within hospitals, emphasizing both external threats and internal vulnerabilities. It explores how healthcare facilities can protect patients and valuable assets through advanced physical security protocols such as high-tech surveillance systems, biometric scanners, and stringent staff vetting procedures. The report highlights the need for comprehensive security strategies that incorporate management planning and technology design to create a secure hospital environment. By implementing these measures, hospitals can significantly mitigate risks related to theft and unauthorized access while maintaining ethical standards of patient care.

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Security is a major concern nowadays for any institute, starting from schools and
hospitals to different public places. Healthcare system should always be alert about the safety
protocol and compliance of it with the patient security (International Association of Privacy
Professionals, 2018). This assignment will discuss the level of security, hospital requires
nowadays.
Apart from the ethical challenges and responsibility of keeping the patients safe within
the system, hospital authorities have to keep detailed track of the expensive medications, costly
equipment and potentially harmful drugs. These are under constant threat as common
opportunism and theft threats are always there. Therefore, the hospitals should incorporate high-
tech surveillance system in each important departments. Further, the unauthorized entry to rooms
that are critical such as emergency wards, ICCU (Intensive Cardiac Care Unit) wards, operation
theatres, medication chambers, diagnostic rooms with equipment and patient record room should
prevented (Fennelly, 2016). Usage of biometrics and eye retina scanner should be used to secure
such areas. Further, in large hospitals having complex requirements, implementation of system
control and security protocols should be done. Visitors should be provided with tags or passes so
that each entry and exit can be monitored. Hospitals should be aware of internal crime threats
and to stop that the hospital authority should amend its recruitment policy and should include
crime verification, drug testing and report from previous employer to limit the access of
unauthorized staff (ISC)², 2018).
It is very challenging to create a secure environment for hospital as balancing
management, planning, technology and designing departments for any institute requires extreme

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human effort. A well-documented plan, well-coordinated team and back up provided by right
technicians can create a secure environment to change the security system of hospitals.

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References
(ISC)². (2018). Cybersecurity and IT Security Certifications and Training | (ISC)². Isc2.org.
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Fennelly, L. (2016). Effective physical security, 5th Edn, pp. 120-134, Butterworth-Heinemann.
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