Driving Healthcare Renaissance

Driving Healthcare Renaissance

Kamal Nair, CEO, Conexao Technology Solutions

A robust healthcare system is the backbone of a productive population. The Covid pandemic that hit in 2020 saw healthcare units across the globe buckle under extreme duress. From acute shortages of hospital beds and outdated systems to alarmingly insufficient healthcare staff, the challenges were far too many. Post the pandemic, governments and hospitals in particular, are seeking solutions that will enable better healthcare, which is efficient, affordable and safe.

Milestone Systems’ XProtect® open platform video management software ( VMS ) aims to do just that. Safeguarding both the caregivers and the patients while enhancing security of the hospital premises is what XProtect® is built to achieve. The endeavor is to cover the entire range from monitoring the patient in the hospital bed to tracking the parking lot. Video technology acts like a much-needed plug-in for all those areas where human surveillance is required but not physically possible. Multiple patients can be efficiently and continuously monitored at a time in a seamless and cost-effective manner. Staff productivity is greatly enhanced as they can observe the patients from video monitoring stations too, in addition to physically checking on them at intervals. This is especially a boon during staff crunch times.

The innovative technology solutions offered by Milestone employ audio and video monitoring and recording with two-way communication. These include sound detection (screams, sounds of broken glass etc.), gun-shot detection (to identify the source for quick deployment of response), license plate recognition, video analytics to identify fall and slip detection, line-crossing, counting people and objects left behind. A significant aspect is the detection of registered keywords like ‘help’ to alert healthcare workers. Intrusion alarms are synced with infrared sensors to warn staff if anyone enters unauthorized areas.

Top priority is accorded to maintaining a safe, secure and flexible hospital environment where the interests of the authorities are also taken care of, especially with respect to saving necessary data for protection against libels.

O-Insights™ enables a seamless user experience with an agile dashboard view within the Milestone smart client to have situational awareness and be vigilant of emergency situations. Pre-configured customized reports can be scheduled for automatic email or triggered based on specific events. O-Insights drivers such as OPC UA, BACnet, SNMP, MQTT and LoRaWAN enable unified integration using open protocols with IoT sensors, Building Management systems, SCADA etc. O-Insights provides a unified data view of all Analytics integrations. MILESTONE XPROTECT® open VMS platform is great at bringing together all the data in a Healthcare facility. With O-Insights agile workspace, every stakeholder in the organization can have their personalized outcome-based dashboards and reports.