Healthcare Security Challenges Are Growing

Hospitals are high-traffic, high-emotion environments where security threats are escalating every year. Traditional security approaches can’t keep up.

• Workplace violence is the #1 safety concern in healthcare. Nurses and ER staff face physical assaults at rates higher than any other industry. OSHA reports that healthcare workers account for 73% of all nonfatal workplace violence injuries.
• Infant abduction remains a persistent threat. Every nursery and NICU requires constant vigilance, and a single lapse can be catastrophic.
• Emergency departments are uniquely vulnerable. Waiting rooms filled with distressed individuals, 24/7 public access, and weapons brought in by patients or visitors create a volatile mix.
• Restricted areas — pharmacies, operating rooms, data centers, and supply rooms — require airtight access control to protect both assets and patient privacy.
• Wandering patients with dementia, cognitive impairment, or psychiatric conditions can leave units undetected, putting themselves at serious risk.

Security teams are stretched thin, monitoring dozens of camera feeds manually. Critical events get missed. Response times lag. Kognition changes that.

Purpose-Built for Healthcare Environments

🔫 Weapons Detection for ERs and Waiting Rooms

Kognition Threats, powered by our partnership with ZeroEyes, provides real-time hospital weapons detection across your facility. When a firearm or edged weapon is identified on camera, security is alerted within seconds — before a situation escalates. Reduce response time from minutes to moments in your emergency department, lobbies, and parking structures.

👶 Infant Abduction Prevention

Monitor nursery and NICU areas with AI-powered behavioral analysis. Kognition detects unauthorized individuals in restricted infant care zones, unusual movement patterns near nurseries, and people who don’t match expected staff profiles. Add an intelligent layer of protection beyond wristband alarms.

🚶 Wandering Patient Detection

Patients with dementia, Alzheimer’s, or psychiatric conditions who wander from their units face serious danger. Kognition People monitors exits, stairwells, and unit boundaries, detecting patients moving outside designated areas and alerting staff before they reach exterior doors.

👤 Visitor Management and Watchlists

Kognition Watchlist enables real-time face matching against known threats — banned visitors, individuals with restraining orders, or persons of interest flagged by law enforcement. VIP lists can also trigger notifications when key stakeholders arrive. All automated, all in real time.

🚪 Restricted Area Access Control

Pharmacies, operating rooms, server rooms, and medication storage areas demand strict access control. Kognition detects tailgating, unauthorized access attempts, and loitering near secured doors — integrating with your existing access control systems for layered security.

📊 Occupancy and Flow Analytics

Kognition People provides real-time occupancy counting for waiting rooms, lobbies, and common areas. Understand patient flow patterns, optimize staffing levels, and identify overcrowding before it becomes a safety issue.

Built for Healthcare Compliance

We understand that healthcare facilities operate under strict regulatory requirements. Kognition is designed with compliance in mind:

• HIPAA-aware architecture — video analytics processing is designed to protect patient privacy. No patient health data is collected or stored by the platform.
• Joint Commission alignment — supports Environment of Care and Life Safety standards for security management programs.
• Enterprise-grade security — encrypted data transmission, role-based access controls, and audit logging meet the security expectations of major health systems.
• On-premise or hybrid deployment — keep sensitive data within your network perimeter when required by policy.

See How Kognition Protects Healthcare Facilities

Your patients and staff deserve the best protection available. See how AI-powered patient safety technology can transform your hospital security program — with the cameras you already have.

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