Medical facilities have numerous areas to protect against unauthorized users including doors, wards, rooms, offices, etc. However, protection against medicine storage cabinets, medicine carts, computers, medical records, and parking lots needs to be restricted as well. Failure to protect these areas could result in prescription drug theft, mistakes with patient medication, etc. It's the number of cabinets and doors, along with many medical facilities having thousands of employees in different locations, hours, etc. that make it a complex issue. However, today's integrated access control systems that run off of medical facilities' existing IT networks make it all possible.
Access control systems today are becoming increasingly IP-based. Piggybacking on existing networks and cabling makes it much easier to quickly install door access readers to a common network switch with standard cables. These types of systems have also been known to reduce installation costs.
Management software is another very important part of helping secure medical facilities. Considering the amount of theft and mistakes yearly, reports are used to track medication storage and who entered a particular medicine cabinet, and when.
Lastly, door access readers can now be installed inside a fleet of ambulances that are either run, or partnered by the hospital. The access management software can be updated to grant access to the EMTs that operate the ambulances. Wireless technology can be used to automatically update the ambulances when they are parked in front of the hospital.
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