Between 30 to 45% of breaches in Protected Health Information (PHI) involve vendors, yet in most cases it is the hospital that is held liable for the breach. In this article, the author explores the practice of relying on vendors to conduct their own background checks of employees they assign to hospitals. He provides guidance on how hospitals can insure that such checks are up to the standards of the hospital's own background procedures without taking over that responsibility from vendors.
Many Cesium 137 machines used by hospitals for blood irradiation are still susceptible to theft by terrorists who can convert them to so-called dirty bombs, according to the author, who describes the harm the explosion of one such bomb can do and urges concerned citizens, media, and security professionals to take action before a disaster occurs.
Healthcare facilities as growing venues for suicide by patients, family members, and others is a challenge which cannot be ignored by security and safety professionals working together with clinicians and social workers, according to the author who presents a checklist of winning strategies to achieve a "zero incidents" suicide prevention program.
Demonstrating the value of comprehensive security services in an era marked by increasing violence and budget cuts in healthcare institutions is the challenge facing healthcare security leaders today. In this article, the author presents five keys to planning for a successful security future.
Tackling the difficult issue of enforcing your hospital's smoke free policy, the author discusses the problems raised by smokers who just won't or can't comply. Strict enforcement, he says, is not always the best policy. The more a whole-hospital community approach is taken to truly create a "smoke free" environment, the more likely it will become uncomfortable for smokers to violate the facility's policy.
In this article the security system executive for a 13-hospital system spells out how partnering with capable and motivated vendors and gaining the cooperation of other departments enabled him to convert disparate security systems with equipment from multiple manufacturers into a cost-effective centralized system.
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