Our product consultants are good listeners.
And often they hear hospital administrators saying they can’t afford the kind of access control they know they need to keep their patients, visitors, and staff members safe.
Well, after a bit of probing by our attentive representatives, these busy, cost-conscious security directors, facilities managers, and other professionals decide they can achieve an acceptable level of security after all. All they have to do is prioritize when and where their I.D. badges are used — and for whom.
They discover three things:
- They don’t have to badge everybody.
They can start by badging just their vendors and contractors, instead of every single visitor. - They don’t have to badge everywhere.
They recognize the importance of securing the floors that are most at-risk, like maternity. - They don’t have to badge every minute.
They can wait until regular visiting hours are over and traffic is lighter, but oftentimes more suspect.
The bottom line, according to Edward McDonald of the Cleveland Clinic’s Euclid Hospital, is “(Data Management’s) self-expiring badge is excellent to help us identify authorized guests in the hospital.”
It’s just a matter of the individual facility deciding how much or how little it can afford to do.
