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A Smarter, Safer Approach to Hospital Security

Security Industry Association

Hospital security is tricky. A medical center should be a place of healing and provide a welcoming atmosphere, but the reality is that hospitals and medical campuses create environments that are difficult to monitor and secure and regularly experience violence. Zach Jory, Axon Enterprise. Body-Worn Cameras.

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Integrating Technologies, Security and Privacy: Hospital Security Systems Must Do More Than Lock Doors and Record Video

Security Industry Association

Paramount to this idea is executing a multilayered strategy that includes creative security solutions, staff safety training and the capacity to gain comprehensive situational awareness of the facility. Numerous sectors of a hospital have complex needs for role-based access control. 3 Major Security Challenges in Health Care.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Hospitals need to develop very substantial surge capacity and greatly increase their infection control measures. This may involve deploying field hospitals and using the resources of military medicine. Sectors such as travel, hospitality, tourism, retail, the arts and entertainment will suffer closures and reorganisations.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

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To fulfill duty of care standards, corporations, educational institutions, hospitals, and government agencies should evaluate and test the health of communication networks and information systems before a severe weather event occurs. Emergency Management During a Hurricane.

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Speed Up Genomics Pipelines with Smart Software and Storage

Pure Storage

Genomics analyses pipelines can be inefficient, complex, and labor-intensive, with lots of data-staging operations and direct-storage capacity bottlenecks. In particular, using elPrep and FlashBlade together eliminated the need for manual, time-consuming, data-staging activities (See Figure 1).

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From Homes to Healthcare, KPN Keeps Digital Services Running

Pure Storage

KPN serves millions of customers across the Netherlands, from hospitals using our IoT telemetry services to monitor their equipment to shipping companies running business-critical logistics systems on our cloud. We began to see significant slowdowns once input/output activity climbed above a certain threshold. Backup is simpler too.

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Customer Value Story: Prevention is Better Than Cure

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Innovation is no longer a competitive differentiator; hospitals, clinics and pharmacies now rely on the flexibility and capacity of their technology to continue providing services. Introduction. The healthcare industry has dramatically transformed over the past year and half. Business Outcome.