Should Body-Worn Cameras Be Deployed at Hospitals?
Ed Howard of Adventist Health/JLL discusses the policy and procedural challenges associated with these video surveillance devices.
It seems like practically every U.S. police department is buying or considering the adoption of body-worn cameras, but are they appropriate for hospitals? If so, how should they be deployed?
HIPAA compliance is just one of several challenges associated with this type of technology. Training and policies are some others.
In this video, Ed Howard, who is the corporate director of heatlhcare security for Adventist Health/JLL, tells Campus Safety magazine how he believes heatlhcare facilities should address this issue.
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Robin Hattersley, Editor-in-Chief
Robin has been covering the security and campus law enforcement industries since 1998 and is a specialist in school, university and hospital security, public safety and emergency management, as well as emerging technologies and systems integration. She joined CS in 2005 and has authored award-winning editorial on campus law enforcement and security funding, officer recruitment and retention, access control, IP video, network integration, event management, crime trends, the Clery Act, Title IX compliance, sexual assault, dating abuse, emergency communications, incident management software and more. Robin has been featured on national and local media outlets and was formerly associate editor for the trade publication Security Sales & Integration. She obtained her undergraduate degree in history from California State University, Long Beach.
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